Welcome to 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 2020): equivalent Impact Factor (eIF) = 5.1; SJR = 1.262. Ranked 102 of 297 pharmacology journals worldwide (based on eIF) and ranked 76 of 793 of all general medicine 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

Granulocyte and monocyte/macrophage apheresis for the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory arthropathies: case reports

Ana Victoria Carro Martínez, Lydia Montolio Chiva, Montserrat Robustillo Villarino

Articles 2021

Paediatrics: how to manage obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

Theresa NH Leung, James WCH Cheng, Anthony KC Chan

Paediatrics: how to manage viral gastroenteritis

Alexander KC Leung, Kam Lun Hon

The effect of azoximer bromide (Polyoxidonium®) in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease (COVID-19): an open-label, multicentre, interventional clinical study

Sergey V Efimov, Natallia V Matsiyeuskaya, Olga V Boytsova, Lyudmila Yu Akhieva, Elena I Kvasova, Francisco Harrison, Yulia S Karpova, Anton Tikhonov, Nadezhda F Khomyakova, Tim Hardman, Jean-François Rossi

Volume matters and intensification is needed: emerging trends in the management of advanced prostate cancer

Iris Y Sheng, Pedro Barata, Raafat Alameddine, Jorge A Garcia

The race to a COVID-19 vaccine: opportunities and challenges in development and distribution

Rodrigo M Burgos, Melissa E Badowski, Emily Drwiega, Samaneh Ghassemi, Nikki Griffith, Fischer Herald, Mikayla Johnson, Renata O Smith, Sarah M Michienzi