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Drug Delivery

Informa Healthcare · United Kingdom

ISSN1071-7544eISSN1521-0464

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.339

H-Indexi

127

SNIPi

1.265

Total Worksi

3,138

Total Citationsi

115,954

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.54

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Therapeutics. Pharmacology. Topics: drug delivery systems, drug targeting, pharmaceutical sciences

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyBimonthly, 2004-

StatusActive

Total Publications3,138

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

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Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Informa Healthcare

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1071-7544 / 1521-0464

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

LOCKSS, Portico, Scholars Portal, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

137

7.1k

2019

156

6.9k

2020

226

7.9k

2021

275

9.9k

2022

108

2.8k

2023

673

2024

114

659

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Pharmaceutical ScienceQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Pharmacology & Pharmacy

Scopus Categories

Pharmaceutical ScienceMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Advanced Drug Delivery SystemsNanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryAdvancements in Transdermal Drug DeliveryRNA Interference and Gene DeliveryDrug Solubulity and Delivery Systems

Frequently asked questions about Drug Delivery

Is Drug Delivery a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Drug Delivery: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Drug Delivery?

Drug Delivery is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 4.54.

Is Drug Delivery indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Drug Delivery is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Drug Delivery?