Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics journal rankings 2015
71 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics has 71 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems, and Journal of Drug Delivery.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (4)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 5.09 0.01 up from 2014 | 445 | 26% | — | ||
2Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 2.33Q1 | 5.97 0.35 down from 2014 | 44 | 5% | — | ||
3Journal of Drug DeliveryHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 5.52 0.59 up from 2014 | 81 | 92% | — | ||
4European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 4.16 0.07 down from 2014 | 777 | 22% | $4,210 | ||
5International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 4.24 0.07 up from 2014 | 2,245 | 18% | $4,650 | ||
6European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 3.70 0.02 down from 2014 | 822 | 15% | $3,070 | ||
7Drug SafetyAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 1.67Q1 | 4.23 0.95 up from 2014 | 373 | 56% | $4,990 | ||
8Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.02 0.18 down from 2014 | 421 | 22% | — | ||
9Expert Opinion on Drug SafetyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.71 0.07 up from 2014 | 326 | 20% | — | ||
10Drug Metabolism and DispositionAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.62 0.05 down from 2014 | 735 | 30% | $3,500 | ||
11Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.63 0.20 down from 2014 | 896 | 37% | $4,690 | ||
12The Pharmacogenomics JournalSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 3.63 1.26 down from 2014 | 190 | 41% | $4,890 | ||
13Pharmacogenetics and GenomicsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.10 0.37 down from 2014 | 271 | 40% | — | ||
14Current Drug MetabolismBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 3.05 0.07 down from 2014 | 303 | 8% | — | ||
15Journal of Analytical ToxicologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.33 0.77 down from 2014 | 381 | 41% | $4,823 | ||
16Drug Testing and AnalysisWiley · United States | 1.34Q1 | 3.19 0.47 up from 2014 | 469 | 24% | $4,440 | ||
17ISRN PharmaceuticsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 1.33Q1 | 1.61 1.03 down from 2014 | 58 | — | — | ||
18Forensic ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.28Q1 | 4.28 0.63 up from 2014 | 133 | 22% | $2,990 | ||
19Biopharmaceutics & Drug DispositionWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 2.22 0.60 down from 2014 | 164 | 18% | $3,800 | ||
20PharmacogenomicsFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.64 0.14 up from 2014 | 605 | 30% | — | ||
21AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.06Q2 | 2.10 0.04 up from 2014 | 514 | 98% | $4,190 | ||
22Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.34 0.34 down from 2014 | 351 | 27% | — | ||
23Drug metabolism and drug interactionsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 1.40 0.23 down from 2014 | 92 | — | — | ||
24Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 2.08 0.70 up from 2014 | 87 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
25Drug Metabolism and PharmacokineticsElsevier BV · Japan | 0.99Q2 | 1.76 0.41 down from 2014 | 223 | 8% | $3,580 | ||
26Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.37 0.17 up from 2014 | 417 | 99% | $2,864 | ||
27Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.19 0.01 down from 2014 | 697 | 12% | $3,660 | ||
28Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.61 0.17 down from 2014 | 263 | 9% | — | ||
29Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.26 0.70 up from 2014 | 159 | 35% | $4,690 | ||
30Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 1.51 0.42 down from 2014 | 208 | 3% | — | ||
31XenobioticaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 1.53 0.57 down from 2014 | 367 | 21% | — | ||
32Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 0.80Q2 | 1.38 0.26 down from 2014 | 200 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
33Clinical and Translational ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 1.17 0.32 down from 2014 | 241 | 95% | $3,630 | ||
34Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.76Q2 | 0.82 0.91 down from 2014 | 71 | 8% | — | ||
35Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.33 0.19 up from 2014 | 80 | 0% | — | ||
36Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q2 | 2.08 0.46 up from 2014 | 665 | 12% | — | ||
37Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.75 0.29 up from 2014 | 133 | 36% | — | ||
38European Journal of Drug Metabolism and PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · France | 0.67Q3 | 1.08 0.05 up from 2014 | 169 | 11% | $2,690 | ||
39International Current Pharmaceutical JournalOABangladesh | 0.66Q3 | 0.72 0.51 down from 2014 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
40Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 1.26 0.03 down from 2014 | 381 | 8% | — | ||
41Journal of PharmaceuticsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 1.27 0.32 up from 2014 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Molecular Pharmaceutics & Organic Process ResearchOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.54Q3 | 1.26 0.37 up from 2014 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
43Drug Metabolism LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.48Q3 | 1.02 0.17 up from 2014 | 76 | 7% | — | ||
44Innovative Romanian Food BiotechnologyOARomania | 0.46Q3 | 0.46 0.35 down from 2014 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
45Medicinal ChemistryOMICS Publishing Group | 0.44Q3 | 0.92 0.26 up from 2014 | 149 | 49% | — | ||
46Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.42Q3 | 0.78 0.22 up from 2014 | 320 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.40Q3 | 1.09 0.04 up from 2014 | 166 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
48Current Chemical BiologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.39Q3 | 1.10 0.04 down from 2014 | 68 | 9% | — | ||
49Dissolution TechnologiesUnited States | 0.36Q3 | 0.44 0.13 down from 2014 | 107 | 87% | — | ||
50Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 0.34Q3 | 0.93 0.36 up from 2014 | 249 | 13% | $3,810 |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
32 additional Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 71
- Window papers (baseline)
- 59,681 +11.3% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.720 -24.0% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4Comparison-group list (4)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 23 | 27 | 30 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 37 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 44 | 49 | 54 | 61 | 69 | 71 | 74 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 70 | 72 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 68 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,428 | 21,714 | 23,158 | 25,397 | 26,889 | 29,157 | 31,606 | 34,777 | 38,146 | 41,640 | 45,814 | 49,553 | 53,613 | 56,245 | 59,173 | 59,681 | 59,061 | 56,321 | 53,536 | 51,719 | 51,606 | 54,267 | 56,608 | 57,539 | 56,944 | 58,541 | |
| Median OJR | 0.620 | 0.717 | 0.722 | 0.88 | 0.86 | 0.83 | 0.91 | 1.11 | 0.9471 | 0.97 | 0.949 | 1.03 | 0.9469 | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.720 | 0.61 | 0.7184 | 0.74 | 0.628 | 0.77 | 0.621 | 0.67 | 0.630 | 0.625 | 0.7176 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 2.7% | 62 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.221 per 1,000 | 51 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.6% | 60 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 44.5% | 68 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,605 | 32 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 67 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.4% | 68 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.74 | 68 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 25.2% | 68 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.7% | 68 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.