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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Template

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About the Nature Reviews Drug Discovery format

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Science, Research, and Medicine, Biotechnology and Related Fields, Computational Drug Discovery Methods. Over its lifetime it has published 6,852 papers, which have received 776,686 citations.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (Nature)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 12, 45–58 (2023).

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Publishes research inScience, Research, and Medicine Biotechnology and Related Fields Computational Drug Discovery Methods Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
ISSN1474-1776
Citation impact (2-yr)13.07
h-index474
i10-index2,359
Top institutions publishing hereHarvard University
Journal websitewww.nature.com
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Papers published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery per year

306
2014
290
2015
280
2016
281
2017
245
2018
242
2019
251
2020
247
2021
243
2022
244
2023
244
2024
241
2025

Citation impact of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery by publication year

34.9K
2014
30.2K
2015
31.5K
2016
31K
2017
32.8K
2018
34.3K
2019
33.7K
2020
34.4K
2021
19.7K
2022
10K
2023
5.8K
2024
2.1K
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Nature Reviews Drug Discovery use?
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery uses Superscript numbered (Nature) references, shown as superscript numerals in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 12, 45–58 (2023).
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Nature Portfolio journal (Springer Nature). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Springer Nature.
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