Drug Discovery Today
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Aims & Scope
Drug Discovery Today delivers informed and highly current reviews for the discovery community. The magazine addresses not only the rapid scientific developments in drug discovery associated technologies but also the management, commercial and regulatory issues that increasingly play a part in how R&D is planned, structured and executed. Features include comment by international experts, news and analysis of important developments, reviews of key scientific and strategic issues, overviews of recent progress in specific therapeutic areas and conference reports. Coverage includes: • Novel therapeutic strategies • High-throughput screening • Therapeutic targets • Combinatorial chemistry, parallel synthesis and library design • Drug delivery • ADME/Tox • Advances in key compound classes and therapeutic areas • Genomics and proteomics • Automation and technology • Virtual chemistry • Informatics • Business strategy • Clinical trials and other aspects of drug discovery.
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ImpaQ AnalysisDrug Discovery Today (acronym: drudis, abbr: DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY, ISSN: 1359-6446) is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal in the field of Medicine, published by Elsevier Ltd in England since 1996. The periodical holds a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 8.70, ranking in quartile Q1 of Web of Science (SCIE), a Scopus SJR indicator of 1.927 (Q1), an H-index of 235.
The journal enforces rigorous peer evaluation with a publication frequency of Semimonthly, an annual output of approximately 266 scientific articles. In terms of accessibility and author fees, it operates under the Hybrid model with an estimated APC of $3,641 USD. It serves as a benchmark publication platform for academics, researchers, and doctoral candidates seeking global research visibility.
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