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Drugs in R&D publishes original research and reviews from all phases of drug development and on clinical use of drugs following approval.

The journal was re-launched in 2010 as the first Open Access journal from Adis, making all content from 2010 onwards freely available online. Pre-2010 content is not available as Open Access. 

Manuscripts accepted for publication by the journal are subject to an article processing charge (APC). Details of the current APC and open access funding and support services are available here.

Drugs in R&D offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content (more information). 

Editor
  • Anton van Rensburg
Impact factor
3.0 (2022)
5 year impact factor
3.1 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
12 days
Downloads
384,158 (2023)

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    Drugs in R&D is able to host a range of digital features, with a number of options available to authors.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1179-6901
Print ISSN
1174-5886
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. Baidu
  2. CLOCKSS
  3. CNKI
  4. CNPIEC
  5. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  6. DOAJ
  7. Dimensions
  8. EBSCO
  9. EMBASE
  10. Gale
  11. Google Scholar
  12. Medline
  13. Naver
  14. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  15. Portico
  16. ProQuest
  17. PubMedCentral
  18. Reaxys
  19. SCImago
  20. SCOPUS
  21. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  22. Semantic Scholar
  23. TD Net Discovery Service
  24. UGC-CARE List (India)
  25. Wanfang
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