American_Journal_of_Pharmaceutical_Education

<i>American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education</i>

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

Academic journal

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."

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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, 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

The 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

The 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

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    Cole, Jim; Stankus, Tony (2014). Journals of the Century. Routledge. p. 434. ISBN 9781317720140 – via Google Books.
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    Kremers, Edward; Sonnedecker, Glenn (1986). Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy. American Institute for the History of Pharmacy. ISBN 9780931292170 – via Google Books.
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    "American journal of pharmaceutical education". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
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    "Proceedings of the annual meeting". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
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    "Medscape Pharmacists Editorial Board". Medscape. WebMD. Joseph T. DiPiro, PharmD. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010.
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    National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), ed. (1971). Scientific, Technical, and Related Societies of the United States. National Academies. pp. 16 – via Internet Archive.
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    "Detailed View". LocatorPlus. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
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    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)
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    "American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education". Journal and Country Rank. SCImago Labs. Data. Retrieved 26 Jun 2015.
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