British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Pharmacological Society. It covers all aspects of drug action in humans and was established in 1974.

The early editors were known as Chairmen of the Editorial Board, until January 2007, when the title was changed to what it is currently, namely Editor-in-Chief.

The following is a list of all previous Chairmen or Editors-in-Chief:


 * Graham M Wilson† (University of Glasgow) (1974–7)
 * Colin T Dollery† (Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London) (1978–82)
 * Alasdair M Breckenridge† (University of Liverpool) (1983–8)
 * David G Grahame-Smith† (University of Oxford) (1988–95)
 * Geoffrey T Tucker (University of Sheffield) (1995–2002)
 * Jeffrey K Aronson (University of Oxford) (2003–7)
 * James M Ritter (King's College London) (2008–14)
 * Adam F Cohen (Leiden University) (2015–19)

†Deceased

As of 2020, the editor-in-chief is Serge Cremers (Columbia University).

Abstracting and indexing
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.4 and a 5-year impact factor of 3.8, ranking it 125th out of 278 journals in the category Pharmacology & Pharmacy.

It is in the first quartile of journals in the category "Medicine – Pharmacology (medical)" (51/255). It is in the second quartile of journals in the category "Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics – Pharmacology" (91/303).