Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Pharmaceutical Science journal rankings 2016
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutical Science has 44 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2015 to 0.54, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.98. The top three are Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, and Journal of Drug Delivery.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (4)
44 ranked journals
Filters
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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 5.35 0.26 up from 2015 | 428 | 32% | — | ||
2European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 4.61 0.45 up from 2015 | 837 | 20% | $4,210 | ||
3Journal of Drug DeliveryHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.78 2.74 down from 2015 | 62 | 93% | — | ||
4International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 3.95 0.29 down from 2015 | 2,433 | 22% | $4,650 | ||
5European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 3.51 0.20 down from 2015 | 836 | 21% | $3,070 | ||
6Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.44 0.19 down from 2015 | 845 | 33% | $4,690 | ||
7Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.40 3.57 down from 2015 | 46 | 5% | — | ||
8Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.21Q1 | 3.01 0.75 up from 2015 | 146 | 35% | $4,690 | ||
9Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 2.24 0.17 up from 2015 | 97 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
10AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.06Q1 | 2.27 0.18 up from 2015 | 547 | 23% | $4,190 | ||
11Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 2.17 0.18 down from 2015 | 339 | 30% | — | ||
12Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.47 0.72 up from 2015 | 161 | 28% | — | ||
13Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.52 0.15 up from 2015 | 502 | 66% | $2,864 | ||
14Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 2.24 0.05 up from 2015 | 731 | 8% | $3,660 | ||
15Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.99 0.09 down from 2015 | 592 | 20% | — | ||
16Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.79 0.18 up from 2015 | 231 | 13% | — | ||
17Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 1.79 0.28 up from 2015 | 241 | 4% | — | ||
18Journal of PharmaceuticsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 2.04 0.77 up from 2015 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
19Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q2 | 1.60 0.33 up from 2015 | 380 | 13% | — | ||
20Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 0.61Q2 | 1.04 0.34 down from 2015 | 192 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
21Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.56Q2 | 1.11 0.22 down from 2015 | 77 | 0% | — | ||
22Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 0.55Q2 | 1.43 0.49 up from 2015 | 343 | 6% | $3,810 | ||
23Journal of Molecular Pharmaceutics & Organic Process ResearchOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.53Q3 | 1.03 0.23 down from 2015 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.46Q3 | 0.98 0.10 down from 2015 | 172 | 4% | $3,890 | ||
25Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.43Q3 | 0.53 0.25 down from 2015 | 322 | 100% | — | ||
26Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.39Q3 | 0.74 0.08 down from 2015 | 56 | 2% | — | ||
27International Current Pharmaceutical JournalOABangladesh | 0.35Q3 | 0.42 0.30 down from 2015 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
28ADMET & DMPKOAInternational Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) · Croatia | 0.33Q3 | 0.64 0.17 down from 2015 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
29British Biomedical BulletinOAUnited States | 0.30Q3 | 0.64 0.91 down from 2015 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
30Current NanomedicineNetherlands | 0.26Q3 | 0.62 0.12 up from 2015 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
31Dissolution TechnologiesUnited States | 0.26Q3 | 0.55 0.11 up from 2015 | 111 | 79% | — | ||
32Drug Delivery LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.24Q3 | 0.63 0.24 down from 2015 | 65 | 9% | — | ||
33Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.22Q3 | 0.43 0.05 down from 2015 | 69 | 6% | — | ||
34American Journal of Drug Discovery and DevelopmentOAUnited States | 0.21Q4 | 0.65 0.22 up from 2015 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
35Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchAssociation of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India · India | 0.19Q4 | 0.42 0.14 up from 2015 | 180 | 100% | — | ||
36International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesOAInnovare Academic Sciences · India | 0.19Q4 | 0.42 0.11 up from 2015 | 1,472 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.16Q4 | 0.28 0.18 up from 2015 | 41 | 100% | — | |||
38Journal of Drug Delivery and TherapeuticsOASociety of Pharmaceutical Tecnocrats · India | 0.15Q4 | 0.26 0.08 down from 2015 | 492 | 100% | — | ||
39Current Drug TherapyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.15Q4 | 0.35 0.34 down from 2015 | 68 | 5% | — | ||
40American Journal of Advanced Drug DeliveryOAUnited States | 0.12Q4 | 0.24 0.09 down from 2015 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.09Q4 | 0.21 0.06 up from 2015 | 48 | 100% | — | |||
42Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAGalenos Yayinevi · Türkiye | 0.08Q4 | 0.14 0.14 up from 2015 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.08Q4 | 0.17 0.02 up from 2015 | 144 | 0% | — | |||
44PharmatutorOAIndia | 0.04Q4 | 0.15 0.05 up from 2015 | 217 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, with Pharmaceutical Science highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Pharmaceutical Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,737 +20.6% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.54 -25.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 27 | 31 | 36 | 41 | 43 | 44 | 43 | 43 | 45 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 43 | 42 | 43 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,475 | 7,588 | 7,654 | 8,087 | 8,285 | 8,674 | 8,975 | 9,518 | 10,113 | 10,822 | 11,808 | 12,971 | 14,267 | 15,539 | 16,907 | 17,880 | 18,737 | 18,998 | 18,769 | 18,134 | 17,898 | 18,805 | 19,869 | 20,406 | 20,468 | 20,952 | |
| Median OJR | 0.620 | 0.6911 | 0.623 | 0.85 | 0.826 | 0.77 | 0.81 | 0.89 | 0.82 | 0.91 | 0.828 | 0.880 | 0.879 | 0.72 | 0.6908 | 0.657 | 0.54 | 0.57 | 0.65 | 0.53 | 0.655 | 0.64 | 0.70 | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.68 |
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.