Overview

International Journal of Pharmacology (IJP) is an internationally peer-reviewed open access journal. IJP provides broad coverage of all aspects of the interactions of drugs and medicines with biological systems (chemical, physiological and behavioral effects); including autonomic, behavioral, cardiovascular, cellular, clinical, developmental, gastrointestinal, immuno-, neuro-, pulmonary, and renal pharmacology, as well as analgesics, drug abuse, metabolism and disposition, chemotherapy, and toxicology, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, immunomodulation, vaccines and vaccines based therapies, pharmacogenomics aided drug development and therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, modes of action and metabolism of effective drugs and medicines, various upcoming drug designing and novel drug delivery methods. It also emphasizes frontiers in therapeutic advances and their biomedical perspectives including advances and recent trends in various prophylactic and therapeutic regimens to effectively combat various diseases and other health problems, both infectious and non-infectious posing challenge to the humans and their companion animals. Novel, emerging and valuable alternate/complementary therapeutic options with interdisciplinary approaches of biotechnology, molecular aspects of drug actions, mechanism and toxicity, genetics, cellular immunology, immunomics, proteomics, pharmacology, bioinformatics, and nanotechnology would be given due focus.

ISSN Numbers

Print ISSN: 1811-7775

Electronic ISSN: 1812-5700

Impact Factor

Publication Frequency: Eight issues per year

Current Impact Factor: 0.2 (2024)

Five-year Impact Factor: 0.3

JCR Category Rank: Q4 in PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Journal History

2005 International Journal of Pharmacology released the inaugural issue.

2009 International Journal of Pharmacology has been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).

2011 International Journal of Pharmacology received its first Impact Factor 1.503.

2025 IMR Press started to publish International Journal of Pharmacology (from Volume 21 Issue 4) which will continue to be available as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

Benefits of Open Access Publishing

All articles published by International Journal of Pharmacology (IJP) are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:

Everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in International Journal of Pharmacology (IJP) .
Free for readers, with a comparatively low Article Processing Charges (APC) paid by authors or their funding bodies or institutions.

Copyright & Permissions

IMR Press grants any third party the right to use the article freely, so long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

All articles published in IJP are under the terms and conditions of the CC BY license. IJP is not authorized to grant permission for material published under either license, as the authors retain copyright. However, depending on the intended use, permission may not be required at all. For details, see: Copyright & License.

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