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Drug Discovery Today

Drug Discovery Today is a journal indexed in SJR in Drug Discovery and Pharmacology with an H index of 226. It has a price of 2395 €. It has a COP Index of 8,2 (best band D1). It is published in English. It has a COP Index of 8,2.

Drug Discovery Today focuses its scope in these topics and keywords: drug, discovery, library, drugs, development, clinical, cancer, challenges, binding, biology, ...

ISSN: 1359-6446

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

Category: Drug Discovery

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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8,2 D1 Top 10%

9 of 128 journals in Drug Discovery

H-index · SJR 226 · 1,742

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20% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

2.395 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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COP Index

8,2

D1 Top 10%

SJR Impact

1,742

H-index

226

Docs (year)

278

Docs 3y

854

Total refs

22995

Cites 3y

7067

Citable 3y

821

Cites/Doc 2y

7.83

Ref/Doc

82.72

Immediate OA

2395 €

Embargoed OA

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Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Corporate intelligence in biotechnology

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Combining drug-disease and economic modelling to inform drug development decisions

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Cell signaling: signal transduction and gene transcription

Can you stand the heat of today's drug discovery?

Bilosomes: the answer to oral vaccine delivery?

Beating superbugs with the Gulliver effect

Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies, and Applications

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Drug Discovery Today has a COP Index of 8,2 (D1), ranked 9 of 128 in Drug Discovery. SJR: 1,742.

Immediate OA APC is 2395 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Drug Discovery Today is 20%.

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