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Overview
Medicinal Chemistry Research is a journal focused on the publication of novel findings in drug design, drug discovery, and mechanisms of action of biologically active compounds.
- Offers prompt publication of experimental achievements.
- Covers chemical biological relationships, especially on: structure-activity relationships, investigations of biochemical and pharmacological targets of drug action, and correlations of structure with mode of action.
- Increases understanding of biochemical interactions.
- Reviews and "New Trends" articles are solicited from the leading researchers in all fields of medicinal chemistry.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Longqin Hu
- Impact factor
- 2.6 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 2.3 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 5 days
- Downloads
- 389,692 (2023)
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Latest articles
Journal updates
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Special Memorial Issue in Honor of Prof. Patrick M. Woster
We are delighted to announce this special Memorial Issue of Medicinal Chemistry Research honoring Prof. Woster. The special issue will be guest edited by Drs. David Rotella, Steven Firestine, and Yuri Peterson. We would like to invite you to submit a comment, review, brief report, or research article to this special issue under the broad theme of drug discovery and development.
We aim for submission by April 30, 2024, and publication of the special issue in summer 2024.
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Call for papers for a special issue in honor of Prof. Stephen Neidle
We are seeking your support for a special issue in honor of Prof. Stephen Neidle, a highly regarded X-ray crystallographer, medicinal chemist and drug discoverer. The special issue will be guest edited by Drs. Shozeb Haider, Claudia Sissi, and John S. Schneekloth, Jr. We would like to invite you to submit a comment, review, brief report, or research article to this special issue under the broad theme of drug discovery.
We aim for submission by March 31, 2024, and publication of the special issue in summer 2024.
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Call for papers for a special issue in honor of Prof. Ronald Borchardt on the occasion of his 80th birthday
We are delighted to announce a special issue in honor of Prof. Ronald Borchardt on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The special issue will be guest edited by Drs. Binghe Wang, Michael Wolfe, Xiangming Guan, and Siming L. Wang. We would like to invite you to submit a comment, review, brief report, or research article to this special issue under the broad theme of drug design, discovery, delivery, or development.
We aim for submission by March 31, 2024, and publication of the special issue in summer 2024.
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Call For Papers: a Special issue in honor of Prof. Thomas A. Baillie
We are delighted to announce this special issue of Med. Chem. Res. honoring Prof. Baillie, a respected teacher and a well-known and highly regarded medicinal chemist. The special issue will be guest edited by Drs. Mark Grillo, Kaushik Mitra, and Cyrus Khojasteh. We would like to invite you to submit a comment, review, brief report, or research article to this special issue under the broad theme of drug discovery.
We aim for submission by March 31, 2023, and publication of the special issue in Summer 2023.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1554-8120
- Print ISSN
- 1054-2523
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chimica
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- Google Scholar
- INIS Atomindex
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information
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