Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Field ranking · 2022
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics journal rankings 2022
75 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics has 75 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation, and Drug Delivery.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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.
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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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Expert Opinion on Drug DeliveryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 7.07 0.36 down from 2021 | 318 | 29% | — | ||
2Journal of Pharmaceutical InvestigationSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.80Q1 | 6.19 1.67 down from 2021 | 123 | 24% | $3,890 | ||
3Drug DeliveryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 6.55 0.34 down from 2021 | 511 | 100% | $2,864 | ||
4Drug Delivery and Translational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.68Q1 | 6.38 0.40 up from 2021 | 471 | 48% | $4,690 | ||
5International Journal of PharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 6.34 0.19 down from 2021 | 3,025 | 35% | $4,650 | ||
6Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 4.69 0.61 down from 2021 | 263 | 41% | — | ||
7Drug SafetyAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 1.47Q1 | 4.64 0.96 down from 2021 | 341 | 69% | $4,990 | ||
8European Journal of Pharmaceutics and BiopharmaceuticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 5.37 0.08 down from 2021 | 743 | 42% | $4,210 | ||
9European Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 4.95 0.50 down from 2021 | 1,069 | 100% | $3,070 | ||
10Scientia PharmaceuticaOAÖsterreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H. · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 3.40 2.26 down from 2021 | 144 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
11International Journal of Pharmaceutics XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 4.43 0.65 down from 2021 | 94 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
12Journal of Drug Delivery Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 1.29Q1 | 5.17 0.10 up from 2021 | 2,016 | 14% | $3,810 | ||
13Clinical and Translational ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 4.40 0.24 down from 2021 | 566 | 100% | $3,630 | ||
14Future Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 1.24Q1 | 3.95 1.27 up from 2021 | 383 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
15Journal of MicroencapsulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 4.08 0.17 up from 2021 | 163 | 7% | — | ||
16Expert Opinion on Drug SafetyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 3.46 0.80 down from 2021 | 440 | 47% | — | ||
17Forensic ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q1 | 3.30 0.03 down from 2021 | 225 | 27% | $4,530 | ||
18AAPS PharmSciTechSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.07Q1 | 3.92 0.66 down from 2021 | 942 | 26% | $4,190 | ||
19Drug Metabolism and DispositionAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 1.06Q1 | 3.79 0.19 up from 2021 | 428 | 77% | $3,500 | ||
20Pharmaceutical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.05Q2 | 3.68 1.10 down from 2021 | 559 | 48% | $4,690 | ||
21The Pharmacogenomics JournalSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.80 0.60 down from 2021 | 188 | 67% | $4,890 | ||
22Drug Development and Industrial PharmacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q2 | 3.50 0.33 down from 2021 | 526 | 12% | — | ||
23Therapeutic DeliveryFuture Science Ltd · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 3.52 0.46 down from 2021 | 203 | 19% | — | ||
24Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & FormulationBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 1.96 0.17 up from 2021 | 54 | — | — | ||
25Journal of Analytical ToxicologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 3.04 0.59 up from 2021 | 434 | 35% | $4,823 | ||
26Pharmaceutical NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 1.46 3.05 down from 2021 | 104 | 4% | — | ||
27Pharmaceutical Development and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.87Q2 | 3.25 0.09 down from 2021 | 306 | 19% | — | ||
28Drug Testing and AnalysisWiley · United States | 0.78Q2 | 3.07 0.12 down from 2021 | 532 | 44% | $4,440 | ||
29Journal of Pharmaceutical InnovationSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 2.83 0.32 up from 2021 | 215 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
30Forensic ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.76Q2 | 2.23 0.35 down from 2021 | 143 | 47% | $2,990 | ||
31ADMET & DMPKOAInternational Association of Physical Chemists (IAPC) · Croatia | 0.72Q2 | 2.54 1.09 up from 2021 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
32Pharmacogenetics and GenomicsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 2.24 0.54 up from 2021 | 96 | 26% | — | ||
33European Journal of Drug Metabolism and PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · France | 0.69Q2 | 2.07 0.45 down from 2021 | 190 | 31% | $2,690 | ||
34PharmacogenomicsFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 2.17 0.27 down from 2021 | 343 | 30% | — | ||
35Drug Metabolism and PharmacokineticsElsevier BV · Japan | 0.69Q2 | 2.20 0.31 up from 2021 | 191 | 64% | $3,580 | ||
36Biopharmaceutics & Drug DispositionWiley · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 2.17 0.12 up from 2021 | 97 | 22% | $3,800 | ||
37Current Drug DeliveryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 2.42 0.39 down from 2021 | 341 | 2% | — | ||
38Current Drug MetabolismBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 1.95 0.61 down from 2021 | 304 | 3% | — | ||
39Assay and Drug Development TechnologiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.62Q3 | 2.04 0.26 down from 2021 | 127 | 13% | — | ||
40Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier SystemsBegell House · United States | 0.61Q3 | 2.79 0.75 up from 2021 | 48 | 10% | — | ||
41Drug Metabolism and Personalized TherapyDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.60Q3 | 1.03 1.16 down from 2021 | 135 | 24% | $2,712 | ||
42XenobioticaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 1.63 0.24 down from 2021 | 328 | 43% | — | ||
43Journal of Chemistry and ApplicationsOAUnited States | 0.56Q3 | 2.19 1.97 up from 2021 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and SciencesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 1.32 0.66 down from 2021 | 102 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
45Drug Metabolism LettersBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.54Q3 | 1.58 0.82 up from 2021 | 32 | — | — | ||
46Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.51Q3 | 1.63 0.09 down from 2021 | 320 | 100% | — | ||
47Recent Patents on NanotechnologyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.45Q3 | 2.08 0.42 up from 2021 | 116 | 0% | — | ||
48Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesOAGalenos Yayinevi · Türkiye | 0.45Q3 | 1.50 0.40 up from 2021 | 398 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Fluorine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.41Q3 | 1.72 0.11 down from 2021 | 481 | 21% | $3,660 | ||
50Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchAssociation of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India · India | 0.40Q3 | 1.29 0.35 up from 2021 | 591 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 75
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,608 +9.5% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.67 +6.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4Comparison-group list (4)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 | 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.