Aims and scope

Drug Delivery publishes open access comprehensive peer-reviewed research articles on the development and application principles of drug delivery and targeting at molecular, cellular, and higher levels.

Drug Delivery aims to serve both the academic and industrial communities and accepts research on the following topics: 

• All aspects of drug delivery systems design and engineering for main routes of administration, including oral, pulmonary, nasal, parenteral, and transdermal delivery
• All aspects of formulations, such as controlled release systems and 3D printed dosage forms
• Nanomedicine and targeted drug delivery including lipid- and polymer-based nanoparticles, macromolecular conjugates, antibodies and nucleic acid delivery and gene editing systems
• Development of new materials with emphasis on biologics and biopharmaceutical delivery
• Biomimetic strategies for the design of drug delivery systems
• Personalized and recession drug delivery
• Theranostics
• Fundamental studies on interactions between drug delivery systems and nanomedicines with biological systems in vitro and in vivo
• Systems approaches to drug delivery and targeting
• Toxicology and safety of drug delivery systems
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning and mathematical and computational analysis in drug delivery and formulation engineering
• Controlled drug delivery in veterinary medicine
• Alternative methods to animal testing in drug delivery
• Industrial and regulatory issues

Papers on drug dosage forms and their optimization will not be considered unless they directly relate to the original drug delivery issues listed above. 

In addition to comprehensive and cutting-edge research articles, the journal welcomes for consideration the following paper types: Critical reviews, Systematic reviews, Brief reports (cutting-edge short papers describing significant advances in an area of drug delivery of broad interest), Case report, Discussion (perspective), Data note and Editorials. Perspectives and Editorials are by invitation only. 

Chief criteria for acceptance are novelty, originality, quality and clarity. All articles received by the Journal will be subject to a single-anonymous peer review. All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Read the Instructions for Authors  for information on how to submit your article.