The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is the official publication of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.[1] According to the editors, the journal's purpose is "to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the United States and Internationally."
| Discipline | Pharmaceutical education |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gayle A. Brazeau |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1937-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Am. J. Pharm. Educ. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | AJPDAD |
| ISSN | 0002-9459 (print) 1553-6467 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 01480171 |
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The Journal was founded in 1937 and absorbed Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties,[2]: 288 which had been published under a couple of variant names between 1900 and 1937.[3][4] As of 2010[update], the editor in chief was Joseph T. DiPiro,[5] Executive Dean at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy.
The Journal's founding editor was Rufus A. Lyman (1875–1957), who served from 1937 to 1955.[2]: 254, 470 Lyman was a physician who held the post of Dean of Pharmacy at the Universities of Nebraska and Arizona.[2]: 470 By 1971, C. Boyd Granberg was the Journal's editor.[6]
The Journal began quarterly issues in 1988.[7] Print publication ceased in 2005 (Volume 69) while online publication began two years earlier, in 2003.[3]
Abstracting and indexing
editThe journal is indexed by PubMed/Medline (1976–1989; 2006– ),[3] Index Medicus (2006– ),[3] Current Contents/Education, Current Contents/Life Sciences, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Current Index to Journals in Education, ProQuest, and EBSCO.
Ranking and metrics
editThe journal exhibited unusual levels of self-citation and its journal impact factor of 2019 was suspended from Journal Citation Reports in 2020, a sanction which hit 34 journals in total.[8]
The typical volume of content published in the Journal annually increased from less than 100 articles before 2003 to more than 300 articles after 2011.[9]
References
edit- ^ Cole, Jim; Stankus, Tony (2014). Journals of the Century. Routledge. p. 434. ISBN 9781317720140 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Kremers, Edward; Sonnedecker, Glenn (1986). Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy. American Institute for the History of Pharmacy. ISBN 9780931292170 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d "American journal of pharmaceutical education". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
- ^ "Proceedings of the annual meeting". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
- ^ "Medscape Pharmacists Editorial Board". Medscape. WebMD. Joseph T. DiPiro, PharmD. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010.
- ^ National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), ed. (1971). Scientific, Technical, and Related Societies of the United States. National Academies. pp. 16 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Detailed View". LocatorPlus. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
- ^ Oransky, Author Ivan (2020-06-29). "Major indexing service sounds alarm on self-citations by nearly 50 journals". Retrieved 2020-07-01.
{{cite web}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - ^ "American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education". Journal and Country Rank. SCImago Labs. Data. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.