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Frontiers in Pharmacology Template

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Frontiers in Pharmacology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Frontiers, covering Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis. Over its lifetime it has published 31,743 papers, which have received 738,446 citations.

PublisherFrontiers
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inPharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds Computational Drug Discovery Methods Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
ISSN1663-9812
Citation impact (2-yr)4.65
h-index238
i10-index16,840
Article processing charge$2,950
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
Journal websitejournal.frontiersin.org
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Papers published in Frontiers in Pharmacology per year

354
2014
317
2015
540
2016
986
2017
1.7K
2018
1.6K
2019
2.3K
2020
4.1K
2021
5.8K
2022
3.3K
2023
3.4K
2024
4.1K
2025

Citation impact of Frontiers in Pharmacology by publication year

25.1K
2014
20.4K
2015
26.4K
2016
52.5K
2017
85.7K
2018
71.5K
2019
90.9K
2020
116.2K
2021
116.2K
2022
46.6K
2023
29.3K
2024
13.1K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Frontiers in Pharmacology

The growing use of herbal medicines: issues relating to adverse reactions and challenges in monitoring safety

Martins Ekor · 1 Jan 2014

The use of herbal medicinal products and supplements has increased tremendously over the past three decades with not less than 80% of people worldwide relying on them for some part of primary healthcare. Although therapies involving these agents have shown promising potential with the efficacy of a good number of herbal products clearly established, many…

3,808 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic

Mahdi Balali‐Mood, Kobra Naseri, Zoya Tahergorabi et al. · 13 Apr 2021

The industrial activities of the last century have caused massive increases in human exposure to heavy metals. Mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic have been the most common heavy metals that induced human poisonings. Here, we reviewed the mechanistic action of these heavy metals according to the available animal and human studies. Acute or chronic…

2,980 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Advances and Challenges of Liposome Assisted Drug Delivery

Lisa Sercombe, Tejaswi Veerati, Fatemeh Moheimani et al. · 1 Dec 2015

The application of liposomes to assist drug delivery has already had a major impact on many biomedical areas. They have been shown to be beneficial for stabilizing therapeutic compounds, overcoming obstacles to cellular and tissue uptake, and improving biodistribution of compounds to target sites in vivo. This enables effective delivery of encapsulated compounds to target…

2,555 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
PD-1 and PD-L1 Checkpoint Signaling Inhibition for Cancer Immunotherapy: Mechanism, Combinations, and Clinical Outcome

Hashem O. Alsaab, Samaresh Sau, Rami M. Alzhrani et al. · 23 Aug 2017

Several cancers are highly refractory to conventional chemotherapy. The survival of tumors in several cases is assisted by checkpoint immunomodulation to maintain the imbalance between immune surveillance and cancer cell proliferation. Check point antibody inhibitors, such as anti-PD-1/PD-L1, are a novel class of inhibitors that function as a tumor suppressing factor via modulation of immune…

1,758 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Three-Dimensional in Vitro Cell Culture Models in Drug Discovery and Drug Repositioning

Sigrid A. Langhans · 23 Jan 2018

Drug development is a lengthy and costly process that proceeds through several stages from target identification to lead discovery and optimization, preclinical validation and clinical trials culminating in approval for clinical use. An important step in this process is high-throughput screening (HTS) of small compound libraries for lead identification. Currently, the majority of cell-based HTS…

1,545 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Frontiers in Pharmacology template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Frontiers in Pharmacology use?
Frontiers in Pharmacology uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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What is Frontiers in Pharmacology?
Frontiers journal. It is a life sciences and medicine journal, published by Frontiers.
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