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Drugs - Real World Outcomes targets research involving the use of real-world data to evaluate health outcomes and inform healthcare decision-making, with a particular focus on healthcare-related 'big data'. Drugs - Real World Outcomes has a broad scope, encompassing studies investigating drug utilisation, patterns of prescribing, pharmacovigilance, treatment guideline adherence, benefit-risk assessments, comparative effectiveness and economic analyses.

Manuscripts accepted for publication by the journal are subject to an article processing charge (APC). Details of the current APC and open access funding and support services are available here.

Drugs - Real World Outcomes offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content (more information).

Contact: For more information about the journal, including pre-submission enquiries, please contact Sophie Stevenson at sophie.stevenson@springer.com

 

Editor
  • Sophie Stevenson

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Journal Impact Factor
2.0 (2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
2.1 (2025)
Submission to first decision (median)
6 days
Downloads
453.6k (2025)

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
2198-9788
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BIOSIS
  2. Baidu
  3. Biological Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. DOAJ
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO
  10. EMBASE
  11. EMCare
  12. Emerging Sources Citation Index
  13. Gale
  14. Google Scholar
  15. Naver
  16. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  17. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  18. Ovid Discovery
  19. Portico
  20. ProQuest
  21. PubMedCentral
  22. SCImago
  23. SCOPUS
  24. Semantic Scholar
  25. TD Net Discovery Service
  26. Wanfang
  27. eLibrary.ru
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