Current Medicinal Chemistry

Current Medicinal Chemistry is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Bentham Science Publishers. The editor-in-chief is Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS (Kings College University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK). The journal covers developments in medicinal chemistry and rational drug design and publishes original research reports and review papers.

A related journal titled Current Medicinal Chemistry – Anti-Cancer Agents was launched in 2001, and retitled as Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry from the start of 2006 with  (print),  (online).

Abstracting and indexing
Current Medicinal Chemistry is indexed in the following databases: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 4.184, ranking it 16th out of 59 journals in the category "Chemistry, Medicinal".
 * Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI
 * EMBASE
 * EMBiology
 * MEDLINE
 * Science Citation Index Expanded
 * Scopus