Drug Safety
Last updated ISSN 0114-5916
Drug Safety is published by Adis, Springer Healthcare in pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Drug Safety concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Key facts
| Publisher | Adis, Springer Healthcare |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0114-5916, 1179-1942 |
| Subject area | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,400 |
| Publishing since | 1978 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/40264 |
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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