Aims and scope:

Drug Target Insights covers current developments in all areas of the field of clinical therapeutics. The journal has two specific areas of focus:

• On molecular drug targets, including disease-specific proteins, receptors, enzymes, and genes.
• The journal seeks to elucidate the impact of new therapeutic agents on patient acceptability, preference, satisfaction and quality of life.
  

Drug Target Insights seeks to be the most up-to-date journal for those who need to be informed of the latest and most important developments in the field. The journal seeks to be the most reliable and up-to-date journal in this field by offering rapid and credible pre-production submission processing to authors. By publishing in open-access format, authors are able to communicate with the widest possible group of readers.

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by the following services:

• Embase
• Google Scholar
• CAS
• DOAJ

SPARC Europe Seal award winner:

This journal has been awarded a SPARC Europe Seal. The Seal is an initiative of SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which is awarded to journals applying a Creative Commons CC-BY copyright license and that make journal metadata accessible to DOAJ.  

Amongst other important services DOAJ makes metadata OAI-compliant.  This in turn enhances the visibility of papers and allows OAI-harvesters to include the details of journal articles in their services. We encourage readers to make use of this valuable resource.  The DOAJ search page is available here.

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Call for papers:

The Editor in Chief welcomes submissions.  Submiss