RSC Pharmaceutics
Leading the way in drug delivery, formulation and pharmaceutical technology.
Editor-in-Chief: Yvonne Perrie
Publishing model: Gold open access
Chemistry is at the centre of our existence and offers transformative solutions to many global challenges, including health. RSC Pharmaceutics acknowledges how chemistry and related disciplines can make a big difference. This impactful journal provides you with a platform to publish crucial research on pharmaceutics.
This is an area of technical opportunity. We are interested in papers that cover emerging technologies and techniques in pharmaceutics, including drug delivery, precision medicine, and enhanced drug targeting. If your research pushes the boundaries of current thinking, then we want to hear from you.
Scope
RSC Pharmaceutics is a new gold open access journal leading the way in the field of Pharmaceutics. This journal publishes research focused on formulating a drug into a medicine, with the intention of achieving controllable drug delivery with high efficacy.
Research published in RSC Pharmaceutics promotes step-change science in the field of Pharmaceutics, and, as such, all submissions must show clear innovation, be scientifically sound, and have a significant impact on the field. Research sharing new scientific findings from across the areas of chemistry, materials science, biomedical sciences, pharmaceutics and drug delivery are all welcomed.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Formulation and design of medicines
- Design and characterization of correct dosage forms
- Physicochemical and biological properties of drugs and their carriers
- Drug delivery devices and their mechanisms of release
RSC Pharmaceutics will provide a platform for researchers to showcase their best work in this field and contribute to the advancement of Pharmaceutics. I look forward to promoting this journal and its published research to the community.
Yvonne Perrie, Editor-in-Chief, RSC Pharmaceutics
Journal Impact Factor
5.5 (2025)
First decision time (all)
19 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
50.5 days
Indexing
eISSN: 2976-8713
Indexed in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Web of Science, Scopus
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