Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Pharmaceutical Science journal rankings 2020
41 ranked journals · Subfield in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutical Science has 41 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2019 to 0.66, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, Drug Delivery, and Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
41 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 7.31 2.93 up from 2019 | 222 | 34% | — | ||
2Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 7.69 2.09 up from 2019 | 509 | 100% | $2,864 | ||
3Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.90Q1 | 7.13 2.50 up from 2019 | 161 | 25% | $3,890 | ||
4European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 6.27 1.24 up from 2019 | 816 | 35% | $4,210 | ||
5International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 6.10 0.72 up from 2019 | 2,646 | 28% | $4,650 | ||
6International Journal of Pharmaceutics XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q1 | 4.54 3.87 up from 2019 | 37 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
7Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.37Q1 | 5.06 1.89 up from 2019 | 339 | 32% | $4,690 | ||
8Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.35Q1 | 4.69 1.00 up from 2019 | 622 | 40% | $4,690 | ||
9European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 4.51 0.64 up from 2019 | 1,298 | 24% | $3,070 | ||
10Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 1.28Q1 | 4.40 1.95 up from 2019 | 123 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
11Future Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 1.28Q1 | 4.52 2.07 up from 2019 | 74 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
12Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 1.18Q2 | 4.42 1.11 up from 2019 | 1,201 | 10% | $3,810 | ||
13Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 3.60 0.82 up from 2019 | 199 | 5% | — | ||
14Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.09Q2 | 3.59 0.81 up from 2019 | 544 | 25% | — | ||
15AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.08Q2 | 3.86 0.99 up from 2019 | 841 | 21% | $4,190 | ||
16Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 0.96Q2 | 3.36 1.26 up from 2019 | 46 | 4% | — | ||
17Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 3.10 0.42 up from 2019 | 240 | 24% | — | ||
18Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 3.59 1.51 up from 2019 | 97 | 30% | — | ||
19Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 3.05 0.99 up from 2019 | 285 | 12% | — | ||
20Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.79Q2 | 3.04 1.36 up from 2019 | 253 | 15% | — | ||
21Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 2.11 0.68 up from 2019 | 150 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
22Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.55Q3 | 1.66 0.63 up from 2019 | 406 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 1.89no change | 589 | 15% | $3,660 | ||
24Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 1.83 0.73 up from 2019 | 68 | 58% | — | ||
25Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.46Q3 | 1.51 0.32 up from 2019 | 135 | 14% | — | ||
26ADMET & DMPKOAInternational Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) · Croatia | 0.41Q3 | 1.64 0.40 up from 2019 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
27Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchAssociation of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India · India | 0.39Q3 | 0.94 0.16 up from 2019 | 524 | 96% | — | ||
28Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.38Q3 | 1.39 0.27 up from 2019 | 86 | 29% | — | ||
29Current NanomedicineNetherlands | 0.32Q3 | 1.56 1.01 up from 2019 | 79 | 29% | — | ||
30International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesOAInnovare Academic Sciences · India | 0.27Q3 | 0.77 0.23 down from 2019 | 939 | 100% | — | ||
31Dissolution TechnologiesUnited States | 0.26Q3 | 0.86 0.02 up from 2019 | 88 | 71% | — | ||
32Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAGalenos Yayinevi · Türkiye | 0.25Q4 | 0.60 0.13 up from 2019 | 300 | 100% | — | ||
33Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and DevelopmentOASociety of Pharmaceutical Tecnocrats · India | 0.23Q4 | 0.56 0.33 up from 2019 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
34Drug Delivery LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.20Q4 | 0.74 0.35 up from 2019 | 101 | 13% | — | ||
35Journal of Drug Delivery and TherapeuticsOASociety of Pharmaceutical Tecnocrats · India | 0.18Q4 | 0.53 0.24 up from 2019 | 1,522 | 100% | — | ||
36American Journal of Advanced Drug DeliveryOAUnited States | 0.17Q4 | 0.14 0.69 down from 2019 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
37MOJ Bioequivalence & BioavailabilityMedCrave Group · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.66 0.32 up from 2019 | 100 | — | — | ||
38PharmatutorOAIndia | 0.16Q4 | 0.62 0.22 up from 2019 | 195 | — | — | ||
39Current Drug TherapyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.15Q4 | 0.35 0.35 down from 2019 | 84 | 18% | — | ||
| 0.13Q4 | 0.34 0.06 up from 2019 | 75 | 100% | — | |||
41British Journal of PharmacyOAUniversity of Huddersfield Press · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.23 0.03 up from 2019 | 57 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, with Pharmaceutical Science highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 additional Pharmaceutical Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 41
- Window papers (baseline)
- 17,898 -5.8% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.655 +15.7% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.