Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Pharmaceutical Science journal rankings 2018
43 ranked journals · Subfield in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutical Science has 43 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2017 to 0.65, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. The top three are European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, and Pharmaceutical Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 4.76 0.08 down from 2017 | 892 | 29% | $4,210 | ||
2Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 5.27 0.53 up from 2017 | 349 | 31% | — | ||
3Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.64 0.90 up from 2017 | 640 | 40% | $4,690 | ||
4International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.71 0.66 up from 2017 | 2,691 | 26% | $4,650 | ||
5Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 4.50 0.62 up from 2017 | 425 | 100% | $2,864 | ||
6European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 3.68 0.03 down from 2017 | 1,195 | 21% | $3,070 | ||
7Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.17Q1 | 2.74 0.53 down from 2017 | 250 | 29% | $4,690 | ||
8Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 1.33 1.05 down from 2017 | 95 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
9Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 1.03Q1 | 2.79 0.01 down from 2017 | 47 | 3% | — | ||
10Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 1.02Q1 | 2.67 0.27 up from 2017 | 576 | 5% | $3,810 | ||
11AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.99Q1 | 2.37 0.17 up from 2017 | 661 | 18% | $4,190 | ||
12Journal of PharmaceuticsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.24 1.50 up from 2017 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
13Future Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 0.91Q2 | 2.19 0.09 down from 2017 | 45 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 2.16 0.08 up from 2017 | 559 | 20% | — | ||
15Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.87Q2 | 2.73 0.10 down from 2017 | 210 | 17% | $3,890 | ||
16Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.14 0.19 down from 2017 | 286 | 36% | — | ||
17Journal of Drug DeliveryHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.56 0.98 up from 2017 | 37 | 50% | — | ||
18Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 2.05 0.06 down from 2017 | 219 | 7% | — | ||
19Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.75Q2 | 1.81 0.15 up from 2017 | 320 | 21% | — | ||
20Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 0.75Q2 | 2.20 1.26 up from 2017 | 144 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
21Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.69Q2 | 1.95 0.06 up from 2017 | 681 | 14% | $3,660 | ||
22Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.58 0.24 down from 2017 | 169 | 24% | — | ||
23Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 1.44 0.17 down from 2017 | 375 | 16% | — | ||
24Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.50Q3 | 1.13 0.16 up from 2017 | 93 | 4% | — | ||
25International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesOAInnovare Academic Sciences · India | 0.45Q3 | 1.03 0.30 up from 2017 | 1,950 | 100% | — | ||
26Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.39Q3 | 0.83 0.33 up from 2017 | 314 | 100% | — | ||
27Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.35Q3 | 0.67 0.25 down from 2017 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
28ADMET & DMPKOAInternational Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) · Croatia | 0.34Q3 | 1.12 0.41 up from 2017 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
29Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchAssociation of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India · India | 0.34Q3 | 0.69 0.07 up from 2017 | 381 | 86% | — | ||
30International Current Pharmaceutical JournalOABangladesh | 0.33Q3 | 0.53 0.13 down from 2017 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
31American Journal of Advanced Drug DeliveryOAUnited States | 0.25Q3 | 0.45 0.06 up from 2017 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
32Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.24Q3 | 0.67 0.48 up from 2017 | 93 | 2% | — | ||
| 0.24Q3 | 0.48 0.01 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | — | |||
34Current Drug TherapyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.21Q4 | 0.49 0.20 down from 2017 | 62 | 14% | — | ||
| 0.21Q4 | 0.33 0.07 down from 2017 | 42 | 100% | — | |||
36Dissolution TechnologiesUnited States | 0.21Q4 | 0.60 0.06 up from 2017 | 93 | 88% | — | ||
37Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAGalenos Yayinevi · Türkiye | 0.20Q4 | 0.52 0.14 up from 2017 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
38Current NanomedicineNetherlands | 0.16Q4 | 0.23 0.12 down from 2017 | 73 | 3% | — | ||
39Drug Delivery LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.13Q4 | 0.30 0.14 down from 2017 | 72 | 3% | — | ||
40Journal of Drug Delivery and TherapeuticsOASociety of Pharmaceutical Tecnocrats · India | 0.10Q4 | 0.50 0.09 down from 2017 | 353 | 100% | — | ||
41MOJ Bioequivalence & BioavailabilityMedCrave Group · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.34 0.23 up from 2017 | 73 | 79% | — | ||
42PharmatutorOAIndia | 0.06Q4 | 0.26 0.14 up from 2017 | 181 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.05Q4 | 0.10 0.05 up from 2017 | 85 | — | — |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, with Pharmaceutical Science highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Pharmaceutical Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 43
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,769 +5.0% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.65 -0.9% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 |
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| 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.