Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry is published by Bentham Science Publishers B.V. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Synthesis and biological activity and Click Chemistry and Applications, together about 36.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry is a forum for the review of areas of keen and topical interest to medicinal chemists and others in the allied disciplines. Each issue is solely devoted to a specific topic, containing six to nine reviews, which provide the reader a comprehensive survey of that area. A Guest Editor who is an expert in the topic under review, will assemble each issue. The scope of Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry will cover all areas of medicinal chemistry, including current developments in rational drug design, synthetic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, high-throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, compound diversity measurements, drug absorption, drug distribution, metabolism, new and emerging drug targets, natural products, pharmacogenomics, and structure-activity relationships. Medicinal chemistry is a rapidly maturing discipline. The study of how structure and function are related is absolutely essential to understanding the molecular basis of life. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry aims to contribute to the growth of scientific knowledge and insight, and facilitate the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents to treat debilitating human disorders. The journal is essential for every medicinal chemist who wishes to be kept informed and up-to-date with the latest and most important advances.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Chemistry, Medicinal

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

3.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

6.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.86LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

104LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

149OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,921OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.99OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.93%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

241LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

3–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly hardLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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.

Publisher

Bentham Science Publishers B.V.

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

Frequency

Semimonthly

Founded

2001

ISSN

1568-0266

Electronic ISSN

1873-4294

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub