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Nanomedicine
Guest Editor
Koushik Debnath, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Submission Status: Open until 19 December 2025
Long-acting formulations
Guest Editors
Muhammad Tahir Haseeb, MPhil, PhD, University of Sargodha, Pakistan
Bhupendra Gopalbhai Prajapati, PhD, Ganpat University, India
Submission Status: Open until 30 July 2025
Advancements in physiologically based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) models for drug development
Guest Editors
Qingfeng He, PharmD, Fudan University, China
Seung-Hyun Jeong, PhD, Sunchon National University, South Korea
Submission Status: Open until 11 July 2025
Reproductive toxicology
Guest Editors
Roland Eghoghosoa Akhigbe, BSc, MBBS, MSc, PhD, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
Shao-Chen Sun, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Submission Status: Open until 16 June 2025
Machine learning for predictive toxicology
Guest Editors
Duc Nguyen, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Marcus Tullius Scotti, PhD, Federal University of ParaÃba, Brazil
Submission Status: Open until 14 June 2025
Drug repurposing for anticancer therapies
Guest Editors
Shreyas Ramchandra Gaikwad, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
K Ramanathan, BTech, MTech, PhD, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Submission Status: Open until 26 May 2025
Advances in microphysiological systems and organs-on-chips technologies
Guest Editors
Ivan Rusyn, MD, PhD, Texas A&M University, USA
Terry R Van Vleet, PhD, AbbVie, USA
Submission Status: Open until 19 May 2025
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Developments in selective drug deliveries
Guest Editors:
Koushik Debnath, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Vijayabhaskarreddy Junnuthula, MSc, University of Helsinki, Finland
Drugs and gut microbiome interactions
Guest Editors:
Imran Khan: Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Life Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KPK, Pakistan
Mohammad Taheri: Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
Big data and artificial intelligence for drug discovery
Guest Editors:
Yuemin Bian: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Michal Brylinski: Louisiana State University, USA
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 2.8
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.7
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.774
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.710
Speed 2024
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 15
Submission to acceptance (median days): 130
Usage 2024
Downloads: 786,626
Altmetric mentions: 260
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The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
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