Journal Information

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Aims and scope of journal

The Pharmacogenomics Journal is a print and electronic journal, which is dedicated to the rapid publication of original research on pharmacogenomics and its clinical applications.

Key areas of coverage include:

  • Effects of genetic variability on drug toxicity and efficacy
  • Identification and functional characterization of polymorphisms relevant to drug action
  • Integration of new developments in the genome project and proteomics into clinical medicine, pharmacology, and therapeutics
  • Clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics
  • Identification of novel genomic targets for drug development
  • Economics of genome-guided interventions
  • ELSI issues on the clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics
  • Pharmacogenomics in developing countries
  • Companion diagnostics and drug development

Journal Metrics

The 2021 journal citation metrics for The Pharmacogenomics Journal are as follows:

2-year Impact Factor* (2021): 3.245
5-year Impact Factor* (2021): 3.478
Immediacy index*: 1.275
Eigenfactor® score*: 0.00327
Article influence score*: 0.852
JCR Rank*: PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY 131/275; GENETICS & HEREDITY 77/175
Journal Citation Score*: 0.98

The 2021 peer review performance metrics for The Pharmacogenomics Journal are shown below:

9 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
Article page views - 186,379

SNIP: 0.905
SJR: 0.804

Usage: 
352,339 Downloads (in 2021)
306 Altmetric mentions (2021)

*2020 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2021)

Abstracted/indexed in

Crossref
Pubmed
British Lib
Nature Asia
Chemical Abstracts
Chineseacademy
Ebsco
Globalnewsmedia
Infotrieve
Current Contents/Thomson Reuters
Kesli
Ovid
Proquest Live
Elsevier/Excerpta Medica
Swetsnet
Portico
Keystone-gale
University of Toronto

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for The Pharmacogenomics Journal is 1470-269X, and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1473-1150.

Newsfeeds

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