''Drug Discovery Today'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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that is published by
Elsevier
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. It was established in 1996 and publishes
reviews
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on all aspects of
preclinical
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drug discovery
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Historically, drugs were discovered by identifying the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by ...
from target identification and validation through hit identification, lead identification and optimisation, to candidate selection.
In 2004, the ''Drug Discovery Today'' journal series expanded with the launch of four online-only review journals: ''Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms, Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, Drug Discovery Today: Therapeutic Strategies'', and ''Drug Discovery Today: Technologies''. The four journals cover developments across the breadth of therapeutic areas and technologies relevant to the drug discovery and development pipeline.
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 7.851.
See also
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Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
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