Current Medicinal Chemistry

Current Medicinal Chemistry is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Bentham Science Publishers. The editor-in-chief is Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS (Kings College University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK). The journal covers developments in medicinal chemistry and rational drug design and publishes original research reports and review papers.^[2]

Current Medicinal Chemistry

Discipline	Medicinal chemistry
Language	English
Edited by	Atta-ur-Rahman
Publication details
History	1994–present
Publisher	Bentham Science Publishers
Frequency	42/year [1]
Impact factor	4.1 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Curr. Med. Chem.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	CMCHE7
ISSN	0929-8673 (print) 1875-533X (web)
OCLC no.	31723164
Links
Journal homepage Online Access Online archive

A related journal titled Current Medicinal Chemistry – Anti-Cancer Agents ISSN 1568-0118 was launched in 2001, and retitled as Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry from the start of 2006 with ISSN 1871-5206 (print), ISSN 1875-5992 (online).^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

Current Medicinal Chemistry is indexed in the following databases:^[4][5]

• Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI
• EMBASE
• EMBiology
• MEDLINE
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 4.184, ranking it 16th out of 59 journals in the category "Chemistry, Medicinal".^[6]