20th Anniversary

The year 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Pharmaceuticals, a peer-reviewed open access journal on medicinal chemistry and related drug sciences. With an Impact Factor of 4.3 and a CiteScore of 6.1, the journal is covered in  Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, Embase, CAPlus / SciFinder and other databases. The journal has published more than 6000 papers from more than 37000 authors. More than 10,000 reviewers have reviewed the journal at least once. We equally value the contributions made by our editors, authors, and reviewers.

In honor of the journal’s 20th anniversary, we are reflecting on our past accomplishments and embarking on an exciting new chapter. We invite you to join us in celebrating this milestone for our journal and to explore the content we have prepared for you below.

20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals Video

Journal History


The inaugural issue was released. Pharmaceuticals was published as a quarterly journal.

The first issue/paper of the Pharmaceuticals was published on 27 January 2004.

Pharmaceuticals resumed publishing and adopted a quarterly publication schedule.

Pharmaceuticals was indexed in PubMed - NCBI.

Pharmaceuticals was indexed in Scopus - Elsevier.



Pharmaceuticals organized the 1st International Electronic Conference Medicinal Chemistry, held on Sciforum.

Pharmaceuticals announced the first edition of the Travel Award.

Pharmaceuticals was indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).



Pharmaceuticals adopted a monthly publication schedule.

Pharmaceuticals received its Impact Factor(2019) of 4.286.

Pharmaceuticals received its second Impact Factor (5.863) and second CiteScore (2020) of 4.6.

The Pharmaceuticals received its third Impact Factor (5.215) and its third CiteScore (2021) of 4.0.

Prof. Dr. Amélia Pilar Rauter was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Pharmaceuticals.

Key Figures

1,893
Academic Editors
37,437
Authors
6.1
Cite Score
4.3
Impact Factor
22,942,647
Page Views
66,874
Total Citations

Testimonials

I am Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde, also called JJ. I had the opportunity to be the Editor-in-Chief of Pharmaceuticals during more than 7 years, and I can say that it

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Top 10 Cited Papers

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Anniversary Special Issues

20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals—Advances in Radiopharmaceutical Sciences and Nuclear Medicine
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submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4187 | Submission Open
Keywords: radiopharmaceuticals; agents and probes; radionuclides; imaging biomarkers; biological/preclinical evaluation; first in-human clinical studies; SPECT; PET/CT and PET/MRI; labeling chemistry; medicinal radiochemistry; (pre)clinical radiopharmacology; and radiopharmacy including GMP-compliant production; radiopharmaceutical drug development; radio theranostics; hybrid imaging; organic molecules; high-molecular weight biomolecules and nano- and microparticles; artificial intelligence and machine learning in image analysis; computational chemistry in radiopharmaceutical development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Radiopharmaceutical Sciences)
The 20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals—Advances in Natural Products submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13275 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Products)
The 20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals—Advances in Medicinal Chemistry
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submission deadline 28 Mar 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 17812 | Submission Open
Keywords: drug discovery; novel drug targets; drug discovery; drug design and development; synthetic methods for drugs; analytical methodologies; in silico screening; structure and ligand-based drug design; structure– activity relationships (SAR); drug metabolism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medicinal Chemistry)
20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals–Drug Design and Pharmacological Advances in Neurodegenerative Disease submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12127
Keywords: neurodegeneration; neuroprotective agents; chemical synthesis; drug design; GPCR; enzyme; screening
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medicinal Chemistry)
The 20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals—Emerging Trends in Biopharmaceuticals submission deadline 22 Dec 2024 | 19 articles | Viewed by 48487 | Submission Open
Keywords: proteins; nucleic acids; aptamers; Glycans; macromolecules; antibodies; phages; viruses; therapeutic tools; peptidomimetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biopharmaceuticals)
The 20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals — Multi-Targeted Natural Products as Therapeutics submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 24 articles | Viewed by 52111
Keywords: natural products; medicinal herbs; marine products; animal products; bioactive compounds; multifactorial diseases; multi-targeting phytochemicals
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Products)
20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals—Therapeutic Mechanisms of Nature Products against Insulin Resistance 2024 submission deadline 25 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11689 | Submission Open
Keywords: insulin resistance; signaling pathways; liver; skeletal muscle; adipose tissues; traditional medicine; plants; fungus; algae; food ingredients
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Products)
The 20th Anniversary of Pharmaceuticals—How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Pharmaceuticals Technology
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submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 17028 | Submission Open
Keywords: drug delivery; drug analysis; pharmaceutical technology; controlled release and sustained release; formula design; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pharmaceutical Technology)

Special Issue Collection

News

Meet Us at Pharmaceuticals 2024—Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences Towards a Healthy Life, 27–29 November 2024 Barcelona, Spain

We would like to invite you to attend Pharmaceuticals 2024—Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences Towards a Healthy Life to be held in Barcelona, Spain, from 27 November 2024 to 29 November 2024. The conference is organized by MDPI as well as the access open-access journal Pharmaceuticals (ISSN: 1424-8247).

This meeting will showcase the art of discovering new molecules, their physical properties, and their modes of action in the search for molecular entities that are able to improve health and quality of life for humankind.

Covering the newest technologies, and the research areas of medicinal chemistry, natural products, organic synthesis, radiopharmaceuticals, pharmacology, toxicology, biomolecular and glycosciences, among others, the meeting will bring together experts presenting their latest findings on combatting infection, inflammation, pain and neurodegeneration, to cite some of the relevant topics that will be discussed. Please submit your abstract before 21 October 2024 and join us. More detailed information on the conference agenda and schedule can be found through this link (https://bit.ly/43gtwXt).

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