Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247) is an open accessed, PubMed and ESCI indexed journal of medicinal chemistry and related drug sciences, published quarterly online by MDPI. manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 16 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2018).

Following Scopus, the 3-year CiteScore tracker is 4.2 in 2017. See https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/17700156714?origin=sbrowse