Current Pharmaceutical Design is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 which covers issues related to pharmacology

Pharmacology

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 and medicinal chemistry

Medicinal chemistry

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. Each issue is devoted to a single major therapeutic area. For each issue, an executive editor is chosen who is an acknowledged authority in that field.

Abstracting and indexing

Current Pharmaceutical Design is indexed in the following databases:

• Chemical Abstracts Service - CASSI
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• Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
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• EMBiology
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• MEDLINE
  MEDLINE
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• Science Citation Index Expanded
  Science Citation Index
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• Scopus
  Scopus
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According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 4.774, ranking it 22nd of 249 journals in the category "Pharmacology & Pharmacy".