Drugs
Last updated ISSN 0012-6667
Drugs is published by Adis, Springer Healthcare in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Drugs concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Adis, Springer Healthcare |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0012-6667, 1179-1950 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 10,029 |
| Publishing since | 1905 |
| Journal website | adisonline.com/drugs/pages/default.aspx |
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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