''Marine Drugs'' is a peer-reviewed

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medical journal publishing reviews and regular research papers on the research, development, and production of therapeutic agents from marine

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. It is published by

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and was established in 2003. The

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is Prof.

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( Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy).

Abstracting and indexing

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

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 4.379.

References

External links

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