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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery is a monthly journal aimed at everyone working in the drug discovery and development arena. In addition to the highest-quality reviews and perspectives covering a broad scope, each issue includes news stories that investigate the hottest topics in dr...

ISSN: 1474-1776

Publisher: Nature Research

Category: Medicine (miscellaneous)

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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17,5 D1 Top 10%

1 of 128 journals in Drug Discovery

H-index · SJR 412 · 30,506

Acceptance rate pie_chart

16% Selective

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COP Index

17,5

D1 Top 10%

SJR Impact

30,506

H-index

412

Docs (year)

247

Docs 3y

718

Total refs

8808

Cites 3y

14603

Citable 3y

136

Cites/Doc 2y

16.64

Ref/Doc

35.66

Immediate OA

- €

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NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Personalized cancer vaccines hit the spot

When drugs unintentionally affect gut bugs

Weeding out memory extinction

Trends in development cycles

The licensing gamble: raising the stakes

The FDA needs you

The early results of misfolding

Vif - a new therapeutic target?

Reducing cancer risk

Pulling the plug on cancer

Preventing metastatic relapse

Piecing together a picture of stroke

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New directions in chemical space

Neuropeptide gene polymorphisms and human behavioural disorders

Moving towards early clinical trials for amyloid-targeted therapy in Alzheimer's disease

Mining for bioinformatics jobs

Look into the future

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery has a COP Index of 17,5 (D1), ranked 1 of 128 in Drug Discovery. SJR: 30,506.

Immediate OA APC is not available (NPD). Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Nature Reviews Drug Discovery is 16%.

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

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