Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Am. J. Pharm. Educ. Edited by Gayle A. Brazeau | Language English Publication history 1937-present | |
Discipline Pharmaceutical education Publisher American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (United States) | ||
The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is the official publication of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. According to the editors, the journal's purpose is "to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the United States and Internationally."
Contents
The Journal was founded in 1937 and absorbed Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties, which had been published under a couple of variant names between 1900 and 1937. As of 2010, the editor in chief was Joseph T. DiPiro, 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. Lyman was a physician who held the post of Dean of Pharmacy at the Universities of Nebraska and Arizona. By 1971, C. Boyd Granberg was the Journal's editor.
The Journal began quarterly issues in 1988. Print publication ceased in 2005 (Volume 69) while online publication began two years earlier, in 2003.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed by PubMed/Medline (1976–1989; 2006– ), Index Medicus (2006– ), Current Contents/Education, Current Contents/Life Sciences, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Current Index to Journals in Education, ProQuest, and EBSCO.
Ranking and metrics
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) for the Journal was 0.344 in 2013, while the h-index was 28; the top-ranked journal in the "Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics" category in 2013 was Pharmacological Reviews with an SJR of 12,127. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.082.
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.