RSC Pharmaceutics
Leading the way in drug delivery, formulation and pharmaceutical technology.
Editor-in-Chief: Yvonne Perrie
Open Access: Gold

ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ is at the centre of our existence and offers transformative solutions to many global challenges, including health. RSC Pharmaceutics acknowledges how chemistry and related disciplines can make a big difference. This impactful journal provides you with a platform to publish crucial research on pharmaceutics.
This is an area of technical opportunity. We are interested in papers that cover emerging technologies and techniques in pharmaceutics, including drug delivery, precision medicine, and enhanced drug targeting. If your research pushes the boundaries of current thinking, then we want to hear from you.
ISSN 2976-8713
Indexed in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Journal Impact factor
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First decision time (all)
17 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
54 days
Scope
RSC Pharmaceutics is a new gold open access journal leading the way in the field of Pharmaceutics. This journal publishes research focused on formulating a drug into a medicine, with the intention of achieving controllable drug delivery with high efficacy.
Research published in RSC Pharmaceutics promotes step-change science in the field of Pharmaceutics, and, as such, all submissions must show clear innovation, be scientifically sound, and have a significant impact on the field. Research sharing new scientific findings from across the areas of chemistry, materials science, biomedical sciences, pharmaceutics and drug delivery are all welcomed.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Formulation and design of medicines
- Design and characterization of correct dosage forms
- Physicochemical and biological properties of drugs and their carriers
- Drug delivery devices and their mechanisms of release
RSC Pharmaceutics will provide a platform for researchers to showcase their best work in this field and contribute to the advancement of Pharmaceutics. I look forward to promoting this journal and its published research to the community.
Yvonne Perrie, Editor-in-Chief, RSC Pharmaceutics
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Meet the team






Arvind Bansal
Editorial Board Member
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER
View profileYahya Choonara
University of the Witwatersrand
Sara Cordeiro
University of Strathclyde
Emily Day
University of Delaware
Anthony J. Hickey
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hitesh Kulhari
Central University of Gujarat
Twan Lammers
RWTH Aachen University Clinic
Dimitrios Lamprou
Queens University Belfast
Andrew Lewis
Quotient Sciences
Eliana Lima
Universidade Federal de Goias
Naved I. Malek
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
Scott Mitchell
Aragón Nanoscience and Materials Institute (INMA
Priyabrata Mukherjee
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Wilson Poon
University of Texas at El Paso
Faisal Raza
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Avi Schroeder
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Lingling Shen
Discovery Sciences
Audra Stinchcomb
School of Pharmacy
Ijeoma F. Uchegbu
University of Cambridge
Raju Vivek
Bharathiar University
Stefan Wilhelm
University of Oklahoma
Laura Fisher
Executive Editor
Sarah Rainford
Deputy Editor
Anna Moore
Editorial Production Manager
Namita Datta
Assistant Editor
Jie Gao
Assistant Editor
Anoushka Handa
Assistant Editor
Kate Jones
Assitant Editor
Patrick de Jongh
Assistant Editor
Claire Mitchell
Assistant Editor
Karina Webster
Editorial Assistant
Natalie Ford
Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond
Publisher
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