Pharmaceutical Biology is an academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 that publishes research on natural product

Natural product

A natural product is a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism - found in nature that usually has a pharmacological or biological activity for use in pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug design...

 research related to pharmaceutical biology.

Core Areas

Topics covered include:

• Methods for discovery, description, analysis characterization and production/isolation (including sources and surveys) of biologically active chemicals or other substances, drugs, pharmaceutical products or preparations used in systems of traditional medicine

• Aspects of pharmacognosy
  Pharmacognosy
  Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines pharmacognosy as "the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well...
  
   that detail the biological activity of crude extracts, the isolation of bioactive compounds from plants or other topics of interest to pharmacognosists

• Other topics related to natural product drugs (e.g. semi-synthetic derivatives)

'The journal is owned by Informa plc

Informa plc

Informa plc is a multinational publishing and conference company with its head office in Zug, Switzerland and its registered office in St Helier, Jersey. It has offices in more than 43 countries and more than 8,500 employees...

 (LSE: INF) a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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-based publisher.

Editor

John M. Pezzuto, PhD. is Editor-in-Chief, and is currently Professor and Dean at the College of Pharmacy, University of Hawaii at Hilo

University of Hawaii at Hilo

The University of Hawaii at Hilo, UHH, or UH Hilo is one of the ten branches of the University of Hawaii system anchored by the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawaii...

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Publication Format

'The journal publishes 12 issues per year in simultaneous print and online editions and is available on a subscription basis or as individual articles All back-issues of the journal are available online on the publisher's website; subscribers to the electronic edition receive access to it as part of their subscription.