Overview

International Journal of Pharmacology (IJP) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing research across all areas of pharmacology. Founded in 2005, IJP provides broad coverage of all aspects of interactions between drugs and biological systems, encompassing cardiovascular pharmacology, neuropharmacology, cancer pharmacology, immunopharmacology, natural products pharmacology, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and other related fields. The journal serves a diverse readership, including pharmacologists, toxicologists, and other biomedical researchers, as well as clinicians, pharmacists, and healthcare professionals. IJP welcomes submissions of original research articles, reviews, systematic reviews, short communications, and letters to the editor.

ISSN Numbers

Print ISSN: 1811-7775

Electronic ISSN: 1812-5700

Impact Factor

Publication Frequency: 8 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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