Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (APSB), sponsored by Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College has been selected for coverage in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), online at the Web of Knowledge. Coverage of this title in SCIE begins with Vol. 5 No. 1, 2015. The 2017 Impact Factor is released as 6.014, ranking 16/261 in the category Pharmacology and Pharmacy.

APSB (Print ISSN 2211-3835; Online ISSN 2211-3843) is an open access, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly journal. Currently, APSB is offering free publication. The main focus of the journal is to publish new findings and significant advancements in overall pharmaceutical sciences. Launched in June 2011, APSB was successively included by Chemical abstracts (CA), DOAJ, Abstract journal (AJ), SCOPUS, PubMed Central and SCIE, etc. APSB is now a significant communication platform for global pharmaceutical community.