Journal of Drug Targeting is a peer-reviewed

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 medical journal published by Informa that covers research on all aspects of drug delivery

Drug delivery

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 and drug targeting for molecular and macromolecular drugs. The editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 is Saghir Akhtar

Saghir Akhtar

Saghir Akhtar is professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, and editor in chief of the Journal of Drug Targeting. He was previously professor of Drug Delivery in the Welsh School of Pharmacy and Director for the Centre for Genome-based...

 (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University

Kuwait University

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in BIOBASE

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/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, BIOSIS Previews

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, Chemical Abstracts Service

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, Current Contents

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/Life Sciences, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica

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, Index Medicus

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/MEDLINE

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, Science Citation Index

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