International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences explained

The International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences is a quarterly scientific journal covering research in pharmaceutical and biological sciences. It was established in 2010 and the editor-in-chief is Guru Prasad Mohanta (Annamalai University).

The journal was placed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory scholarly open-access journals.^[1] Although the journal charges article processing fees,^[2] readers have to subscribe to the journal or buy articles individually.^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service^[4] and Embase.^[5]

From 2010 to 2014, and again in 2016, the journal was indexed in Scopus.^[6] Indexing was discontinued for "publication concerns".^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS . Scholarly Open Access . Beall . Jeffrey . Jeffrey Beall . 2016-10-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160926212358/https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/ . 2016-09-26 .
2. Web site: Instructions to authors to submit manuscript of pharma bio sciences to ijpbs . International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences . 25 December 2018.
3. Web site: Subscription . International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences . 25 December 2018.
4. Web site: CAS Source Index . . . 2017-09-07 . dead . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100310080057/http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp . 2010-03-10 .
5. Web site: Embase Coverage . . Embase . 2018-12-24.
6. Web site: Source details: International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences . . Scopus preview . 2018-12-24.
7. Web site: Discontinued Sources List . . 25 December 2018.