Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Pharmaceutical Science journal rankings 2017
43 ranked journals · Subfield in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutical Science has 43 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. The top three are Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, and International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
43 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 4.75 0.60 down from 2016 | 480 | 32% | — | ||
2European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 4.84 0.23 up from 2016 | 863 | 24% | $4,210 | ||
3International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 4.05 0.09 up from 2016 | 2,527 | 26% | $4,650 | ||
4European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 3.71 0.21 up from 2016 | 935 | 25% | $3,070 | ||
5Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.45Q1 | 3.74 0.29 up from 2016 | 784 | 38% | $4,690 | ||
6Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.28Q1 | 3.27 0.26 up from 2016 | 157 | 26% | $4,690 | ||
7Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 3.88 1.36 up from 2016 | 475 | 100% | $2,864 | ||
8Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 1.23Q1 | 2.79 0.39 up from 2016 | 45 | 8% | — | ||
9Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.09Q1 | 1.82 0.66 down from 2016 | 172 | 30% | — | ||
10Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 2.38 0.14 up from 2016 | 97 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
11AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.99Q1 | 2.19 0.08 down from 2016 | 620 | 13% | $4,190 | ||
12Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.12 0.33 up from 2016 | 230 | 7% | — | ||
13Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.89Q2 | 2.83 1.85 up from 2016 | 180 | 13% | $3,890 | ||
14Journal of PharmaceuticsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 0.74 1.30 down from 2016 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
15Journal of Drug DeliveryHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.58 1.20 down from 2016 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
16Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 2.08 0.09 up from 2016 | 516 | 17% | — | ||
17Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.32 0.16 up from 2016 | 285 | 40% | — | ||
18Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 0.81Q2 | 2.40 0.98 up from 2016 | 405 | 10% | $3,810 | ||
19Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 1.90 0.34 down from 2016 | 709 | 14% | $3,660 | ||
20Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.72Q2 | 1.61 0.18 down from 2016 | 359 | 6% | — | ||
21Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.65 0.06 up from 2016 | 342 | 24% | — | ||
22Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.57Q2 | 0.92 0.19 down from 2016 | 75 | 0% | — | ||
23Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.48Q3 | 0.97 0.23 up from 2016 | 88 | 3% | — | ||
24Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 0.43Q3 | 0.93 0.11 down from 2016 | 166 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
25Journal of Molecular Pharmaceutics & Organic Process ResearchOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.70 0.33 down from 2016 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
26International Current Pharmaceutical JournalOABangladesh | 0.35Q3 | 0.66 0.24 up from 2016 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.34Q3 | 0.40 0.20 up from 2016 | 60 | — | — | |||
28International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesOAInnovare Academic Sciences · India | 0.32Q3 | 0.73 0.31 up from 2016 | 2,178 | 100% | — | ||
29Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.30Q3 | 0.50 0.03 down from 2016 | 317 | 100% | — | ||
30Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchAssociation of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India · India | 0.29Q3 | 0.62 0.20 up from 2016 | 231 | 100% | — | ||
31Dissolution TechnologiesUnited States | 0.29Q3 | 0.54 0.01 down from 2016 | 98 | 84% | — | ||
32Current Drug TherapyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.26Q3 | 0.68 0.33 up from 2016 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
33ADMET & DMPKOAInternational Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) · Croatia | 0.26Q3 | 0.70 0.06 up from 2016 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
34Current NanomedicineNetherlands | 0.22Q4 | 0.35 0.27 down from 2016 | 62 | 7% | — | ||
35Drug Delivery LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.21Q4 | 0.44 0.19 down from 2016 | 55 | 4% | — | ||
| 0.20Q4 | 0.46 0.19 up from 2016 | 46 | 100% | — | |||
37Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAGalenos Yayinevi · Türkiye | 0.17Q4 | 0.39 0.24 up from 2016 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
38American Journal of Advanced Drug DeliveryOAUnited States | 0.16Q4 | 0.39 0.16 up from 2016 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
39British Biomedical BulletinOAUnited States | 0.15Q4 | 0.33 0.31 down from 2016 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Drug Delivery and TherapeuticsOASociety of Pharmaceutical Tecnocrats · India | 0.14Q4 | 0.59 0.33 up from 2016 | 359 | 100% | — | ||
41Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.11Q4 | 0.19 0.24 down from 2016 | 79 | 4% | — | ||
| 0.03Q4 | 0.05 0.13 down from 2016 | 145 | — | — | |||
43PharmatutorOAIndia | 0.03Q4 | 0.12 0.03 down from 2016 | 254 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, with Pharmaceutical Science highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Pharmaceutical Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 43
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,998 +12.4% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.57 -18.0% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.