Drug Design, Development and Therapy

Usage:

• 601,762 Annual downloads/views

Speed/ acceptance:

• 43 days average from submission to first editorial decision
• 12 days average from editorial acceptance to publication
• 10% acceptance rate

Citation metrics:

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• 6.1 ((Q1) 2025) Impact Factor *
• 6.2 (2025) 5 year Impact Factor
• 6.9 ((Q1) 2025) CiteScore
• 1.466 (2025) Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
• 1.309 (2025) Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)
• PubMed and PubMed Central (Drug Des Devel Ther)
• Scopus, from 2009
• Embase, from 2009
• BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• MEDLINE
• The Open Access Initiative (OAIster)

 

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