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#TitleJournalYearCitations
1The growing impact of click chemistry on drug discoveryDrug Discovery Today20032,880
2Peptide therapeutics: current status and future directionsDrug Discovery Today20152,250
3PEGylation, successful approach to drug deliveryDrug Discovery Today20052,029
4Ligand efficiency: a useful metric for lead selectionDrug Discovery Today20041,687
5Exploiting the enhanced permeability and retention effect for tumor targetingDrug Discovery Today20061,633
6Natural products in drug discoveryDrug Discovery Today20081,507
7Hydrogels: from controlled release to pH-responsive drug deliveryDrug Discovery Today20021,484
8Poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers: from biomimicry to drug delivery and biomedical applicationsDrug Discovery Today20011,453
9Solid dispersions as strategy to improve oral bioavailability of poor water soluble drugsDrug Discovery Today20071,262
10Dendrimers and dendritic polymers in drug deliveryDrug Discovery Today20051,247
11Synthetic therapeutic peptides: science and marketDrug Discovery Today20101,215
12A ‘Rule of Three’ for fragment-based lead discovery?Drug Discovery Today20031,209
13The rise of deep learning in drug discoveryDrug Discovery Today20181,033
14Blood–brain barrier deliveryDrug Discovery Today2007995
15Three-dimensional cell culture: the missing link in drug discoveryDrug Discovery Today2013983
16Nanotech approaches to drug delivery and imagingDrug Discovery Today2003980
17Multi-target therapeutics: when the whole is greater than the sum of the partsDrug Discovery Today2007947
18Virtual screening—an overviewDrug Discovery Today1998905
19Photodynamic therapeutics: basic principles and clinical applicationsDrug Discovery Today1999801
20Silver nanoparticles: synthesis, properties, and therapeutic applicationsDrug Discovery Today2015723
21Similarity-based virtual screening using 2D fingerprintsDrug Discovery Today2006722
22Dendrimer-based drug and imaging conjugates: design considerations for nanomedical applicationsDrug Discovery Today2010707
23From magic bullets to designed multiple ligandsDrug Discovery Today2004672
24Pancreatic lipase inhibitors from natural sources: unexplored potentialDrug Discovery Today2007668
25Cell-penetrating peptides: classes, origin, and current landscapeDrug Discovery Today2012668
26Pharmacophore modeling and applications in drug discovery: challenges and recent advancesDrug Discovery Today2010654
27Angiogenesis and bone repairDrug Discovery Today2003645
28The role of cocrystals in pharmaceutical scienceDrug Discovery Today2008643
29The impact of aromatic ring count on compound developability – are too many aromatic rings a liability in drug design?Drug Discovery Today2009637
30Drugs from the deep: marine natural products as drug candidatesDrug Discovery Today2003635
31Future directions for peptide therapeutics developmentDrug Discovery Today2013633
32Machine learning in chemoinformatics and drug discoveryDrug Discovery Today2018630
33Keynote review: Phosphodiesterase-4 as a therapeutic targetDrug Discovery Today2005604
34Virtual ligand screening: strategies, perspectives and limitationsDrug Discovery Today2006598
35Can the flow of medicines be improved? Fundamental pharmacokinetic and pharmacological principles toward improving Phase II survivalDrug Discovery Today2012589
36An analysis of FDA-approved drugs: natural products and their derivativesDrug Discovery Today2016572
37Curcumin nanoformulations: a future nanomedicine for cancerDrug Discovery Today2012569
38Enantioselective organocatalysisDrug Discovery Today2007561
39Machine-learning approaches in drug discovery: methods and applicationsDrug Discovery Today2015559
40Structure-based virtual screening: an overviewDrug Discovery Today2002556
41Computational methods for the prediction of ‘drug-likeness’Drug Discovery Today2000552
42Cancer nanotechnology: application of nanotechnology in cancer therapyDrug Discovery Today2010550
43Current applications and future potential for bioinorganic chemistry in the development of anticancer drugsDrug Discovery Today2009542
44What made sesquiterpene lactones reach cancer clinical trials?Drug Discovery Today2010536
45Nanonization strategies for poorly water-soluble drugsDrug Discovery Today2011525
46Zinc oxide nanoparticles: a promising nanomaterial for biomedical applicationsDrug Discovery Today2017520
47PTP1B as a drug target: recent developments in PTP1B inhibitor discoveryDrug Discovery Today2007505
48Ligand efficiency indices as guideposts for drug discoveryDrug Discovery Today2005501
49Artificial intelligence in drug discovery and developmentDrug Discovery Today2021501
50Managing the drug discovery/development interfaceDrug Discovery Today1997489