Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Last updated ISSN 1474-1776
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery is published by Nature Portfolio in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1474-1776, 1474-1784 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,860 |
| Publishing since | 1967 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/nrd/ |
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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