Journal profile · Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health
Current Drug Research Reviews
ISSN 2589-9775 · eISSN 2589-9783 · Bentham
Current Drug Research Reviews: subscription journal; median 105 days to acceptance (65 articles, last 24 months); 50 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Current Drug Research Reviews is published by Bentham. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes and Medicinal Plant Research, together about 27.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pharmaceutical Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advanced Drug Delivery SystemsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics11.1%
- Substance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesMedicine8.6%
- Medicinal Plant ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.9%
- Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputer Science7.1%
- Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryMaterials Science6.4%
- Drug Solubulity and Delivery SystemsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics5.7%
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug DeliveryPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4.3%
- Analytical Methods in PharmaceuticalsChemistry4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | Q2 | 279/580 | 51st |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 57OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.28OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 300 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 49 | 0 | 344 |
| 2025 | 50 | 0 | 434 |
| 2024 | 29 | 3 | 372 |
| 2023 | 55 | 5 | 289 |
| 2022 | 35 | 0 | 156 |
| 2021 | 25 | 4 | 115 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
105 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 83 days – 126 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 223 days (65 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 351 days
- Sample
- 65 articles with submission and acceptance dates (146 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Bentham
- ISSN
- 2589-9775
- Electronic ISSN
- 2589-9783
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Current Drug Research Reviews
How long does peer review take at Current Drug Research Reviews?
Based on the dates recorded on 65 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 105 days (interquartile range 83–126 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Current Drug Research Reviews?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Current Drug Research Reviews is indexed in Scopus.
Is Current Drug Research Reviews open access, and what is the APC?
Current Drug Research Reviews is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .