The journal serves as a compendium of knowledge in pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety which can be readily accessed by physicians, surgeons, medical scientists, public health professionals, medical students, clinicians, lab researchers, academicians and industry for keeping themselves updated and also to formulate further research programs. Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is a peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on studies pertaining to rare adverse drug reactions, drug efficacy evaluations, drug interaction quantifications, patterns of drug usage, herbal medicines, randomized control trials, case control studies, cross-sectional studies, case cross over studies and cohort studies.