Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics journal rankings 2021
72 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics has 72 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2020 to 0.62, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, Drug Delivery, and Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 7.43 0.13 up from 2020 | 321 | 28% | — | ||
2Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 6.89 0.81 down from 2020 | 453 | 100% | $2,864 | ||
3Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.80Q1 | 7.86 0.74 up from 2020 | 112 | 16% | $3,890 | ||
4International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 6.53 0.43 up from 2020 | 2,770 | 30% | $4,650 | ||
5Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 5.30 0.42 up from 2020 | 288 | 34% | — | ||
6European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 5.45 0.81 down from 2020 | 830 | 40% | $4,210 | ||
7Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.51Q1 | 5.98 0.92 up from 2020 | 395 | 43% | $4,690 | ||
8Drug SafetyAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 1.43Q1 | 5.61 0.05 up from 2020 | 367 | 75% | $4,990 | ||
9European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 5.46 0.94 up from 2020 | 1,177 | 39% | $3,070 | ||
10International Journal of Pharmaceutics XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 5.09 0.55 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
11Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.27Q1 | 4.78 0.09 up from 2020 | 661 | 36% | $4,690 | ||
12Expert Opinion on Drug SafetyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 4.26 0.52 down from 2020 | 378 | 26% | — | ||
13Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 1.24Q1 | 5.66 1.26 up from 2020 | 144 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
14Clinical and Translational ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 4.65 0.71 up from 2020 | 401 | 100% | $3,630 | ||
15Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 1.22Q1 | 5.07 0.65 up from 2020 | 1,681 | 11% | $3,810 | ||
16AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.15Q1 | 4.58 0.73 up from 2020 | 901 | 27% | $4,190 | ||
17Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 3.91 0.31 up from 2020 | 181 | 5% | — | ||
18Drug Metabolism and DispositionAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 1.05Q1 | 3.61 0.57 down from 2020 | 499 | 88% | $3,500 | ||
19Current Drug MetabolismBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 2.56 1.55 down from 2020 | 308 | 17% | — | ||
20The Pharmacogenomics JournalSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 3.40 0.16 up from 2020 | 188 | 43% | $4,890 | ||
21Forensic ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 3.33 0.22 up from 2020 | 205 | 30% | $4,530 | ||
22Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.83 0.25 up from 2020 | 538 | 16% | — | ||
23Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 3.99 0.89 up from 2020 | 207 | 17% | — | ||
24Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 4.51 0.92 up from 2020 | 107 | 23% | — | ||
25Journal of Analytical ToxicologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.45 1.26 down from 2020 | 420 | 27% | $4,823 | ||
26Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q2 | 3.34 0.29 up from 2020 | 297 | 19% | — | ||
27Future Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 0.89Q2 | 2.67 1.85 down from 2020 | 180 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
28Drug Testing and AnalysisWiley · United States | 0.89Q2 | 3.19no change | 533 | 39% | $4,440 | ||
29Forensic ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.85Q2 | 2.58 0.85 down from 2020 | 158 | 27% | $2,990 | ||
30European Journal of Drug Metabolism and PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · France | 0.80Q2 | 2.52 0.46 up from 2020 | 195 | 45% | $2,690 | ||
31Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 2.81 0.23 down from 2020 | 300 | 8% | — | ||
32PharmacogenomicsFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 2.44 0.30 up from 2020 | 361 | 30% | — | ||
33Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 2.52 0.41 up from 2020 | 204 | 23% | $3,990 | ||
34Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 0.68Q2 | 2.04 1.32 down from 2020 | 49 | 21% | — | ||
35Drug Metabolism and PharmacokineticsElsevier BV · Japan | 0.67Q2 | 1.90 0.82 down from 2020 | 174 | 41% | $3,580 | ||
36Drug Metabolism and Personalized TherapyDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.63Q2 | 2.18 0.13 down from 2020 | 88 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
37Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.61Q3 | 1.72 0.06 up from 2020 | 458 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and SciencesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.98 0.16 up from 2020 | 87 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
39XenobioticaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.86 0.01 down from 2020 | 358 | 35% | — | ||
40Drug Metabolism LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 0.76 0.66 down from 2020 | 42 | 20% | — | ||
41Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.56Q3 | 1.80 0.03 down from 2020 | 73 | — | — | ||
42Biopharmaceutics & Drug DispositionWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 2.05 0.16 up from 2020 | 103 | 23% | $3,800 | ||
43Pharmacogenetics and GenomicsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.70 0.21 down from 2020 | 100 | 46% | — | ||
44Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.50Q3 | 2.30 0.79 up from 2020 | 132 | 5% | — | ||
45Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.47Q3 | 1.83 0.06 down from 2020 | 539 | 14% | $3,660 | ||
46Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.41Q3 | 1.66 0.28 up from 2020 | 100 | 17% | — | ||
47ADMET & DMPKOAInternational Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) · Croatia | 0.37Q3 | 1.45 0.19 down from 2020 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
48Drug metabolism and drug interactionsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.34Q3 | 0.91no 2020 value | 46 | 67% | — | ||
49Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchAssociation of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India · India | 0.30Q3 | 0.94no change | 494 | 97% | — | ||
50Dissolution TechnologiesUnited States | 0.30Q3 | 0.82 0.04 down from 2020 | 82 | 93% | — |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 72
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,267 +1.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.621 -16.6% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4Comparison-group list (4)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.