About Drugs in Context

Drugs in Context is an open access, peer-reviewed, continuous publication of international standing. It is a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (https://doaj.org/). It is listed on PubMed and all articles are free-to-view/download immediately on PubMed Central.

Latest rankings (SJR/Scimago 2019): equivalent Impact Factor = 3.56. Q2 title; H index = 15; SJR = 0.848. Ranked 15 of 80 open access pharmacology journals worldwide (based on eIF). Ranked 71 of 326 of all pharmacology journals worldwide (based on eIF).

Articles: we publish high-quality, peer-reviewed original research papers and topical review articles covering the latest evidence and innovations in drug treatment across all therapeutic areas. Other article types are considered.

Peer review: we conduct single-blind external peer review on all manuscripts with comments from at least two peer reviewers. Our aim is to obtain a first editorial decision within 3 weeks of manuscript submission and online publication within 3 weeks of acceptance.

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Latest Article

Kawasaki disease in siblings and a review of drug treatment

Steven King-fan Loo MBChB, FRCP, Kam Lun Hon MBBS, MD, FAAP, FCCM, Alexander KC Leung MBBS, FRCPC, FRCP (UK & Irel), FRCPCH, FAAP, Tak Cheung Yung MBBS, MRCPCH, Man Ching Yam MBChB, MRCPCH

Articles 2014

One-year prevalence, comorbidities and cost of cachexia-related inpatient admissions in the USA

Susan T Arthur, Joshua M Noone, Bryce A Van Doren, Debosoree Roy, Christopher M Blanchette

Empagliflozin: a new sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor for the treatment of type 2 diabetes

Joshua J Neumiller

Study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial comparing the efficacy of two educational interventions to improve inhalation techniques in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): TIEPOC Study.

José Leiva-Fernández, Francisca Leiva-Fernández, Rubén L Vázquez-Alarcón, Antonio García-Ruiz, Daniel Prados-Torres, Pilar Barnestein-Fonseca

Tardive dyskinesia in patients treated with atypical antipsychotics: case series and brief review of etiologic and treatment considerations

Jungjin Kim, Eric MacMaster, Thomas L Schwartz

The non-anticoagulation costs of atrial fibrillation management: findings from an observational study in NHS Primary Care

George Kassianos, Chris Arden, Simon Hogan, Laura Baldock, Ahmet Fuat