''Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry'' is a biweekly

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published by

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. It includes review articles on all aspects of

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, including

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. The current

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is Jia Zhou (

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, Medical Branch).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 3.570.

References

External links

* Medicinal chemistry journals Bentham Science Publishers academic journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 2001 Biweekly journals {{medicinal-chem-journal-stub