Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What are the aims & scope of Acta Materia Medica?
Acta Materia Medica provides an open platform for rapid publication of the latest findings, approaches, and viewpoints related to all related areas of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, including, but are not limited to, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry, natural products, pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacokinetics, clinical pharmacy, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics and pharmacy management.
Coverage includes:
- Pathophysiology of important diseases and disease vectors
- Novel therapeutic strategies
- Novel methodologies facilitating the search for therapies
- High-throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, parallel synthesis and library design
- 3D Structures and functions of therapeutic targets
- Structural biological studies of relevant ligands and targets
- Discovery, design and synthesis of biologically active agents, including natural products, therapeutic macromolecules
- Drug delivery
- ADME/Toxicology
- Advances in key compound classes and therapeutic areas
- Omics in pharmaceutical sciences
- Biological databases, web-based software for pharmaceutical sciences
- Studies of biological activity or mode of action
- Structure-activity correlations of drugs
- Development of new imaging and diagnostic tools
- Computational studies the SAR of compounds, target informatics
- Business strategy for pharmaceutical industry
- Clinical research and trials, meta-analysis
- Management, commercial and regulatory issues in pharmaceutical R&D
- Other aspects of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences
Acta Materia Medica welcomes the submission of research articles, review articles, databases, mini reviews, commentaries, editorials, short communications, case report articles and study protocols.
2. What is open access?
Acta Materia Medica is an open access journal. This means that permanent and free access to published scientific works for readers and no publication fees for the authors – it is 100% free.
3. How should I submit articles to Acta Materia Medica?
Submissions to Acta Materia Medica are made using ScholarOne, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access are available at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ammed.
4. Do I need to pay a publication fee, and will I receive remuneration for publishing papers in Acta Materia Medica?
We do not offer remuneration nor collect publication fees for publishing papers in Acta Materia Medica.
Submit your article today at https://amm-journal.org/index.php/submit-a-paper/
5. Is there a printed version of Acta Materia Medica?
No.
6. Where can I access the online version of Acta Materia Medica
Acta Materia Medica is published online at ScienceOpen. If you would like a hard copy of an article, you can download the PDF version of the article and print it.