About Drugs and Drug Candidates

Aims

Drugs and Drug Candidates (ISSN 2813-2998) is an international scientific journal covering all critical steps involved in the story of a marketed or potential therapeutic agent.

We aim to offer a comprehensive overview of the scientific approaches used in the development of successful drugs and the search for new promising candidates. Chemistry is the main focus of the journal, although other aspects of drug sciences are also addressed. Reviews, research articles, and other formats will be considered, provided they are supported by solid scientific background and appropriate literature references.

Scope

This multidisciplinary journal welcomes submissions describing known drugs for human and veterinary use, as well as efforts to discover and develop new leads. Subjects within the scope of Drugs and Drug Candidates include: 

  • Reviews of marketed drugs;
  • Reviews of FDA and EMA recently approved drugs;
  • Virtual design and screening (molecular docking, artificial intelligence, etc.);
  • Chemical synthesis and methodologies;
  • In vitro evaluation and high-throughput screening;
  • In vivo evaluation and animal models;
  • Drug delivery;
  • Intellectual property and regulatory affairs;
  • Market analysis.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

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Copyright / Open Access

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© 2024 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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