Q1 Pharmacology & Pharmacy Journals

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery is a journal covering drug discovery and development, featuring Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, News in Brief, Research Highlights and related analysis on therapeutics, targets, clinical trials, regulatory science and biopharma t...

Drug Resistance Updates publishes original research, commentary, and expert reviews on drug resistance in infectious disease and cancer, as well as novel drugs and strategies to overcome resistance. It covers both basic research and clinical aspects of drug re...

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS) is a monthly peer-reviewed reviews journal that publishes reviews and opinions across pharmacology, pharmacy, pharmaceutics, and toxicology. Launched in 1979, it focuses on recent developments in pharmacology and thera...

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews publishes commissioned review articles in Theme Issue format on advanced drug and gene delivery systems and their applications in human and veterinary medicine. The journal covers key issues in effective drug and gene delivery, f...

Pharmacological Reviews presents important review articles covering the broad spectrum of pharmacological research, including biochemical and cellular pharmacology, drug metabolism and disposition, renal pharmacology, neuropharmacology, behavioral pharmacology...

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B is a monthly English-language peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant original research articles, rapid communications, and high quality reviews across pharmaceutical sciences, including pharmacology, pharmaceutics, medicin...

Drugs is a journal focused on therapeutics and drug information. For over 50 years it has published reviews and original clinical research on new and established drug therapies across all disease areas to support clinical decision-making through peer-reviewed...

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology covers significant developments in pharmacology and toxicology, including receptors, transporters, enzymes, chemical agents, drug development science, physiological systems such as the immune, central and autonomic...

Pharmacology & Therapeutics publishes lucid, critical, and authoritative reviews on important topics in pharmacology, including drug actions and the exploitation of drug targets. Disease pathophysiology is covered when it forms part of a narrative around drug...

Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AJPS) is the official journal of the Asian Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences and is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded. It publishes innovations, production methods, technologies, initiatives, and applicat...

Medicinal Research Reviews is a top-ranked medicinal chemistry journal that publishes timely critical reviews and opinion-based articles covering the full range of medicinal research to which authors have made significant contributions.

Journal of Controlled Release is the official journal of the Controlled Release Society and the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System. It publishes high-quality research in delivery science and technology, including drug delivery systems and formulation scienc...

Pharmacological Research is an IUPHAR-affiliated journal that publishes cutting-edge articles in biomedical sciences across molecular, biochemical, translational, and clinical pharmacology, including clinical trials. The journal covers a broad range of topics...

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis (JPA), launched in 2011, is an official journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University. It is a monthly peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original research articles, review papers, short communications, news, research hi...

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica is a pharmacology journal published on the Nature platform that publishes research articles and review articles and includes both subscription and open access content.

Phytomedicine is the International Journal of Phytotherapy and Phytopharmacology, published in affiliation with the European Scientific Cooperative On Phytotherapy (ESCOP). It is a therapy-oriented journal focused on efficacy, safety, quality, mechanisms of ac...

Drug Delivery publishes open access peer-reviewed research on the development and application principles of drug delivery and targeting at molecular, cellular, and higher levels. It covers oral, pulmonary, nasal, parenteral, and transdermal delivery systems, f...

Archives of Pharmacal Research is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on original scientific research in drug discovery, development, and actions. It is the official journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea and was first published in 1976.

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes full-length original research reports, reviews, preliminary communications, and letters to the editor in clinical and basic medicine and pharmacology, including areas such as cancer, n...

Drug Discovery Today delivers informed and highly current reviews for the discovery community. The journal covers scientific developments in drug discovery technologies as well as management, commercial, and regulatory issues affecting R&D, including novel the...

CNS Drugs provides researchers and healthcare professionals with information on drug therapies for the management of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The journal publishes reviews and original research articles addressing pharmacology, efficacy, adverse...

Neuropsychopharmacology is an official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology that publishes research and commentary in neuropsychopharmacology.

BioDrugs is a hybrid journal covering the development and therapeutic application of biotechnology-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostic products for the treatment of human disease, serving R&D professionals and clinicians interested in biologic therapies.

Neurotherapeutics is the official journal of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT). It publishes critical reviews on important topics relating to the treatment of neurological disorders and original research articles in translational...

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics is a global pharmacology journal concerned with the effects of drugs on the human gastrointestinal and hepato-biliary systems, publishing a diverse range of topics often with immediate clinical impact. It is interested in...

European Neuropsychopharmacology is the official journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology and focuses on clinical and basic science contributions that advance understanding of brain function and human behaviour, with emphasis on translating n...

International Journal of Nanomedicine is a peer-reviewed open-access journal focused on clinical biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including drug delivery, regenerative nanomedicine, nanodiagnostics, nanoinformatics, nanotoxicity, and nanoengineered b...

International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X is a gold open access journal for pharmaceutical scientists focused on the physical, chemical and biological properties of devices and delivery systems for drugs, vaccines and biologicals, including their design, manuf...

Phytotherapy Research is an international pharmacological journal publishing original medicinal plant research for biochemists, pharmacologists, and toxicologists. Its key areas of interest include pharmacology, toxicology, and the clinical applications of her...

European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy is an ESC Publications journal focused on cardiovascular medicine and pharmacology. It became fully Open Access from January 2025, with all accepted submissions from 3 September 2024 publishing under an O...

Chinese Medicine is an open access journal publishing evidence-based, scientifically justified research and review papers in all aspects of Chinese medicine, including chemistry, biology, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, engineering, clinical applications and soci...

Biochemical Pharmacology publishes original research findings and review articles on cellular and tissue functions at the biochemical and molecular levels, drug- and genetic-induced modification of cellular phenotypes, and the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokine...

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (CPT), the flagship journal of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), is a cross-disciplinary journal in experimental and clinical medicine devoted to publishing advances in the nature, act...

Drug Delivery and Translational Research is an official journal of the Controlled Release Society and a dedicated platform for high-quality research focused on translational aspects of drug delivery and novel drug delivery systems. It explores rationally devel...

The Journal of Psychopharmacology is a fully peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on preclinical and clinical aspects of psychopharmacology and serves researchers and practicing clinicians.

Pharmaceutics is a peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, published monthly online by MDPI. It is affiliated with the Spanish Society of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology (SEFIG), Pharm...

Chemico-Biological Interactions is a journal of molecular, cellular and biochemical toxicology that publishes research reports and review articles on the molecular, cellular, and biochemical basis of toxicologically relevant outcomes. It emphasizes toxicologic...

Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery is a MEDLINE-indexed international subscription-based journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed review articles in drug delivery. It covers delivery technologies, vehicles, formulations, devices, gene and vaccine delivery stra...

Journal of Ethnopharmacology is the official journal of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology and focuses on the use of plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms, and minerals in traditional medicine and their biological and pharmacological effects. It...

Marine Drugs is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on the research, development, and production of biologically and therapeutically active compounds from the sea. It is published monthly online by MDPI and is affiliated with the Austr...

Current Neuropharmacology is a journal in neuropharmacology with ISSN (Print) 1570-159X and ISSN (Online) 1875-6190. It publishes Volume 24 in 2026, has a current Impact Factor of 5.3, a 5-year Impact Factor of 7.4, and a CiteScore of 10.0. Open access article...

International Journal of Pharmaceutics publishes research on the physical, chemical and biological properties of pharmaceutical devices and delivery systems for drugs, vaccines and biologicals, including their design, manufacture and evaluation. It covers stud...

Drug Design, Development and Therapy is an open access peer-reviewed journal covering drug design, discovery, development, and clinical applications. It publishes research on areas including drug target identification, pharmacokinetics, molecular and structura...

Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation is an international, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of pharmaceutical sciences, including the conception, design, production, characterization, and evaluation of pharmaceutical products and drug delivery syst...

Life Sciences is an international journal publishing articles that emphasize the molecular, cellular, and functional basis of therapy. It focuses on mechanistic understanding relevant to human disease and translation to patients, favors full-length papers usin...

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics is an open access journal publishing research related to the central nervous system, clinical pharmacology, drug development and novel methodologies for drug evaluation. The journal focuses on neurological and psychiatric diseas...

Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines (CJNM), founded and sponsored in May 2003 by China Pharmaceutical University and the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, focuses on advancing Traditional Chinese Medicines through research on bioactive natural products, lea...

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (1746-0441; 1746-045X) is a MEDLINE-indexed, international, peer-reviewed subscription-based journal publishing original research and review articles on novel technologies involved in the drug discovery process, leading to new...

The Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology is an international journal devoted to drug delivery and pharmaceutical technology. It is the official journal of the Association de Pharmacie Galenique Industrielle, Associazione Docenti e Ricercatori Italia...

Frontiers in Pharmacology is a pharmacology and pharmacy journal that explores interactions between chemicals and living beings and advances pharmacological discoveries to prevent and treat human disease.

Pharmaceutical Biology is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing research on natural medicines and drugs, biologically active natural products or their derivatives, and complex traditional medicine formulas. It covers natural product research related...

Pharmaceuticals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of medicinal chemistry and related drug sciences, published monthly online by MDPI. The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS) is affiliated with the journal, and it is indexed in Scopus, SCIE (Web of S...

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is the official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS). It publishes research articles, review articles, perspectives and scientific commentaries on all aspects of pharmaceutical scie...

European Journal of Pharmacology publishes research papers covering all aspects of experimental pharmacology, with a focus on the mechanism of action of structurally identified compounds affecting biological systems. Its scope includes behavioural, neuro-, psy...

Antibiotics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on all aspects of antibiotics, published monthly online by MDPI. It is indexed in PubMed and has a JCR Q1 quartile ranking in Infectious Diseases and Pharmacology and Pharmacy.

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents is a MEDLINE-indexed, peer-reviewed, international subscription-based journal publishing review articles on recent pharmaceutical patent claims, providing expert opinion on future development in the context of the scientif...

The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents is the official journal of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and publishes peer reviewed reference information on the physical, pharmacological, in vitro and clinical properties of antimic...

Journal of Clinical Lipidology, a journal of the National Lipid Association, is published monthly and covers clinical lipidology, dyslipidemia, lipid metabolism disorders, pharmacological and lipid metabolism research, treatment and trials, case studies, and l...

Neuropharmacology publishes original research in neuroscience focused on the actions of exogenous and endogenous chemical agents on neurobiological processes in the mammalian nervous system. The journal may consider non-mammalian and invertebrate studies in ex...

PharmacoEconomics is a peer-reviewed journal focused on the practical application of health economics and outcomes research to optimize healthcare resource allocation. It emphasizes clear communication of complex pharmacoeconomic issues across healthcare inter...

Toxicology is a multidisciplinary journal focused on contemporary toxicology, emphasizing human-relevant and mechanistic research across all levels of biological organization from molecular to organismal. It prioritizes original high-quality research and revie...

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is an ASM journal focused on antimicrobial chemotherapy, antimicrobial resistance, mycology, and related infectious disease research. The journal publishes article formats including research articles, minireviews, brief re...

Pharmaceutical Medicine is a hybrid journal covering the multidisciplinary specialty of pharmaceutical medicine, including scientific, medical, regulatory, and ethical activities in the discovery, development, evaluation, registration, and monitoring of medici...

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets is a MEDLINE-indexed, peer-reviewed, international subscription-based journal publishing review articles and original papers on novel molecular targets, with expert opinion on future drug development and drug discovery. It...

Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy provides researchers and healthcare professionals with insights into the latest molecular diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and their use in precision medicine. The journal publishes reviews and original research articles focu...

ADMET & DMPK (ISSN 1848-7718) is an open-access journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of new and original scientific results in medicinal chemistry, natural product, biophysical chemistry, analytical science, advanced materials, pharmacology and pharmacy.

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics is the official journal of the International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology and publishes novel, innovative, hypothesis-driven research in pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, including drug deli...

Journal of Liposome Research publishes original, peer-reviewed research on liposomes and related systems, lipid-based delivery systems, lipid biology, synthetic and physical lipid chemistry, biomembranes, vaccines, emerging vesicle-related technologies, analyt...

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences is the official journal of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences. It is a broad-spectrum, peer-reviewed, international pharmaceutical journal established in 1998 and describes itself as the first open ac...

Pharmaceutical Research is an official journal of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists covering innovative research in drug discovery, development, evaluation, and regulatory approval. Current emphasis includes preformulation, drug delivery an...

Current Opinion in Pharmacology publishes authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic reviews that synthesize current advances in pharmacology and drug discovery. The journal covers a broad range of human systems and particularly welcomes submissions related...

Drug Development Research is an interdisciplinary pharmacology journal publishing papers and reviews covering all areas of drug development, including medicinal and process chemistry, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, toxicology, drug delivery, formulation...

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology publishes studies on the toxic and pharmacological effects of human and veterinary drugs and environmental contaminants in animals and humans. The journal emphasizes molecular mechanisms of toxicity, biotransformation,...

Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin is a peer reviewed multidisciplinary open access journal covering a wide range of integrative fields within pharmaceutical sciences. It is the official journal of the Drug Applied Research Center and Faculty of Pharmacy and is...

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs is a MEDLINE-indexed, international subscription-based journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed review articles and original papers on drugs in preclinical and early-stage clinical development, with emphasis on future...

AAPS PharmSciTech is an official journal of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists focusing on the research, development, and evaluation of pharmaceutical dosage forms and delivery systems. It emphasizes technologically driven dissemination prac...

Antiviral Research publishes manuscripts on the prevention and treatment of viral diseases in humans and vertebrate animals, including antiviral drugs, antibodies, host-response modifiers, new drug targets, animal models, drug resistance, pathogenesis, safety...

Clinical Pharmacokinetics is a major review journal in the area of clinical pharmacokinetics, the study of drug disposition in the human body, with a focus on drug development, rational pharmacotherapy, clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and postg...

Drug Metabolism and Disposition is a journal in pharmacology and toxicology that publishes significant and original experimental findings from in vitro and in vivo systems on the metabolism and disposition of endogenous and exogenous compounds, including pharm...

Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology is a peer-reviewed open access journal with a strong clinical and pharmacological focus, aimed at clinicians and researchers in psychopharmacology and providing an online forum for high-quality articles in this area.

Medline-indexed research on targeting and delivery of molecular and macromolecular drugs, carrier systems, and diagnostic, in vivo and in vitro applications. Journal of Drug Targeting is a subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on dr...

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry is an international and multidisciplinary journal that publishes authoritative reviews and research papers on experimental and clinical aspects of neuro-psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry,...

Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy is a MEDLINE-indexed, international subscription-based journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed review articles and original papers on therapeutics and diagnostics in the treatment of infectious disease. Articles inco...

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology is the journal of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum, publishing neuroscience and neuropsychopharmacology research. The journal is fully open access and carries a 2024 impact factor of 3.7...

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology publishes peer reviewed articles involving the generation, evaluation, and interpretation of experimental animal and human data relevant to regulatory authorities in toxicological and pharmacological regulation. The journ...

Pediatric Drugs promotes the optimization and advancement of all aspects of pharmacotherapy for healthcare professionals interested in pediatric drug therapy, vaccines and immunotherapeutics. It publishes reviews and original research articles with clinically...

Skin Pharmacology and Physiology is a journal of pharmacological and biophysical research focused on topical therapies, original papers, and systematic reviews in pharmacological aspects of the skin and skin physiology. It invites work on epidermal barrier fun...