Drug Discovery Today
Last updated ISSN 1359-6446
Drug Discovery Today is published by Elsevier BV in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,720.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Drug Discovery Today concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1359-6446, 1878-5832 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,720 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 7,779 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | www.sciencedirect.com/journal/drug-discovery-today |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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