American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
Academic journal
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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 |
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| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Am. J. Pharm. Educ. |
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| 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]:â288â 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 (1875â1957), who served from 1937 to 1955.[2]:â254,â470â Lyman was a physician who held the post of Dean of Pharmacy at the Universities of Nebraska and Arizona.[2]:â470â 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 (1976â1989; 2006â ),[3] Index Medicus (2006â ),[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]