Current Computer-Aided Drug Design

Aims & Scope

Current Computer-Aided Drug Design aims to publish all the latest developments in drug design based on computational techniques.

The field of computer-aided drug design has had extensive impact in the area of drug design.

Current Computer-Aided Drug Design is an essential journal for all medicinal chemists who wish to be kept informed and up-to-date with all the latest and important developments in computer-aided methodologies and their applications in drug discovery.

Each issue contains a series of timely, in-depth reviews/mini-reviews, original research articles and letter articles written by leaders in the field, covering a range of computational techniques for drug design, screening, ADME studies, theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; computer and molecular graphics; molecular modeling; protein engineering; drug design; expert systems; general structure-property relationships; molecular dynamics; chemical database development and usage etc., providing excellent rationales for drug development.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16845

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	273

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.294

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	35

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• Embase

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Molecular Docking: A Powerful Approach for Structure-Based Drug Discovery

  Citation: 2664

  Authors: Xuan-Yu, Hong-Xing, Mihaly, Meng

• Recent Advances in Free Energy Calculations with a Combination of Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models

  Citation: 317

  Authors: Junmei, Tingjun, Xiaojie

• Recent Advances in Ligand-Based Drug Design: Relevance and Utility of the Conformationally Sampled Pharmacophore Approach

  Citation: 256

  Authors: Chayan, Andrew, James, Alexander

• ISIDA - Platform for Virtual Screening Based on Fragment and Pharmacophoric Descriptors

  Citation: 179

  Authors: Alexandre, Denis, Dragos, Olga, Cedric, Philippe, Vitaly, Frank, Igor, Gilles

• Visualization of the Chemical Space in Drug Discovery

  Citation: 139

  Authors: Jose, Karina, Marc, Richard, Clemencia

• Recent Advances in Docking and Scoring

  Citation: 136

  Authors: E., T., T.

• Metabolomics of Medicinal Plants: The Importance of Multivariate Analysis of Analytical Chemistry Data

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Taketo, Farit, Md., Hiroki, Kensuke, Shigehiko

• Structure-Activity Relationships and Rational Design Strategies for Radical- Scavenging Antioxidants

  Citation: 94

  Authors: Hong-Yu

• Pharmacophore Based Drug Design Approach as a Practical Process in Drug Discovery

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Qingzhi, Lulu, Yongqiang

• Nonlinear SVM Approaches to QSPR/QSAR Studies and Drug Design

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Jean-Pierre, Florent, Hairong, Annick, Botao

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