ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Aims and scope of journal
• Impact factor
• Abstracted/indexed in
• ISSN and eISSN
• Editors

Aims and scope of journal

APS (Acta Pharmacologica Sinica) encourages submissions from all areas of pharmacology and the life sciences. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, anticancer pharmacology, cardiovascular and pulmonary pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, drug discovery, gastrointestinal and hepatic pharmacology, genitourinary, renal and endocrine pharmacology, immunopharmacology and inflammation, molecular and cellular pharmacology, neuropharmacology, pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics.

Impact Factor

2008 impact factor 1.676*

Rank:
46/125 in Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
140/216 Pharmacology & Pharmacy

* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters 2009

Abstracted/indexed in

Chemical Abstracts
Scopus
CSA Bioengineering
CSA Medical Biotechnology
CSA Neuroscience
Current Contents/Life Sciences
ISI
SciSearch
Research Alert
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Index Medicus
MEDLINE/Index Medicus

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for APS is 1671-4083, and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1745-7254.

Editors

Editor-in-chief

DING, Jian (Shanghai)

Associate Editors-in-chief

DU, Guan-hua (Beijing)
HU, Guo-yuan (Shanghai)
SU, Ding-feng (Shanghai)
ZUO, Jian-ping (Shanghai)

Editorial Board

CHEN, Alex F (East Lansing)
CHEN, Guo-qiang (Shanghai)
CHEN, Hong-zhuan (Shanghai)
CHEN, Jian-guo (Wuhan)
CHO, Chi-Hin (Hong Kong)
CHO, William CS (Hong Kong)
DUAN, Dayue (Reno)
DUAN, Shu-min (Shanghai)
FAN, Saijun (Washington)
GENG, Mei-yu (Shanghai)
GUAN, Xin-yuan (Hong Kong)
GUO, De-an (Shanghai)
HAHN, Sang June (Seoul)
HU, Gang (Nanjing)
IM, Dong-soon (Busan)
JIANG, Hua-liang (Shanghai)
JIANG, Jian-dong (Beijing)
KONG, Ah-Ng Tony (Piscataway)
KU, David D (Birmingham)
KUO, Min-Liang (Taipei)
KWAN, Chiu-Yin (Taichung)
KWONG, Yok-Lam (Hong Kong)
LENG, Ying (Shanghai)
LI, Chuan (Shanghai)
LI, Duan (Shanghai)
LI, Xiao-hui (Chongqing)
LI, Xue-jun (Beijing)
LIANG, Chang-seng (Rochester)
LIAO, Duan-fang (Hengyang)
LIN, Jaung-Geng (Taipei)
LIU, Chang-xiao (Tianjin)
LIU, Geng-tao (Beijing)
LIU, Jing-gen (Shanghai)
LIU, Ping (Shanghai)
LOU, Yi-jia(Hangzhou)
MAN, Ricky YK (Hong Kong)
MEI, Qi-bing (Xi-an)
MEI, Yan-ai(Shanghai)
MIAO, Ze-hong (Shanghai)
QIN, Zheng-hong (Suzhou)
REN, Jin (Shanghai)
REN, Jun (Laramie)
REN, Lei-ming (Shijiazhuang)
RUI, Yao-cheng (Shanghai)
SHEN, Jing-kang (Shanghai)
SHEN, Xu (Shanghai)
SONG, Jian-guo(Shanghai)
SPANDIDOS, Demetrios A (Crete)
STEFANO, George B (New York)
SUN, Bo (Shanghai)
SUN, Feng-yan (Shanghai)
TAN, Jin-quan (Wuhan)
TANG, Xi-can (Shanghai)
VERKHRATSKY, Alexei (Manchester)
WANG, Feng-Sheng (Kaohsiung)
WANG, Guang-ji (Nanjing)
WANG, Hai (Beijing)
WANG, Huai-liang (Shenyang)
WANG, Hui (Shanghai)
WANG, Ming-Hai (Amarillo)
WANG, Ming-wei (Shanghai)
WANG, Xiao-liang (Beijing)
WANG, Yi-ping (Shanghai)
WEHRENS, Xander HT (Houston)
WEI, Er-qing (Hangzhou)
WEI, Wei (Hefei)
WEKERLE, Hartmut (Martinsried)
WU, Chun-fu (Shenyang)
WU, Jie (Phoenix)
WU, Shu-guang (Guangzhou)
XI, Lei (Richmond)
XIAO, Hong (Beijing)
XIE, Xin (Shanghai)
XU, An-long (Guangzhou)
YAMORI, Takao (Tokyo)
YANG, Bao-feng (Harbin)
YANG, Huang-tian (Shanghai)
YANG, Jin-Ming (New Brunswick)
YANG, Sheng-li (Shanghai)
ZHANG, Yong-xiang (Beijing)
ZHANG, You-yi (Beijing)
ZHANG, Zhen-lin (Shanghai)
ZHEN, Xue-chu (Shanghai)
ZHENG, Qing-shan (Shanghai)
ZHOU, Hong-hao (Changsha)
ZHOU, Jun (Tianjin)
ZHU, Zhenping (New York)
ZOU, Ming-Hui (Oklahoma)