Mendes Antonio E, Tonin Fernanda S, Fernandez-Llimos Fernando
Pharmaceutical Sciences Postgraduate Program, Department of Pharmacy. Federal University of Paraná . Curitiba ( Brazil ).
Editor-in-chief, Pharmacy Practice. Institute for Medicines Research (iMed.ULisboa), Department of Social Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon . Lisbon ( Portugal ).
Pharm Pract (Granada). 2016 Oct-Dec;14(4):847. doi: 10.18549/PharmPract.2016.04.847. Epub 2016 Dec 15.
The aim of this study is to characterize the patterns and trends in the editorial process and features of the first decade of Pharmacy Practice, with the final goal of initiating a benchmarking process to enhance the quality of the journal.
Metadata of all of the articles published from 2006 issue #3 to 2016 issue #2 were extracted from PubMed and complemented by a manual data extraction process on the full-text articles. Citations of these articles were retrieved from Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, and Google Scholar on August 15, 2016. The references from all of the articles published by Pharmacy Practice in 2015 were also extracted. International collaboration was explored with a network analysis.
A total of 40 issues were published in this timespan, including 349 articles, 91.1% of which were original research articles. The number of citations received by these articles varies from 809, as reported by the WOS, to the 1162 reported by Scopus and the 2610 reported by Google Scholar. The journals cited by Pharmacy Practice are mainly pharmacy journals, including Pharm Pract (Granada), Int J Clin Pharm, Am J Health-Syst Pharm, Am J Pharm Educ, and Ann Pharmacother. Only 17.3% of the articles involved international collaboration. Delays in the editorial process increased in 2013, mainly due to an increase in acceptance delay (mean=138 days).
Pharmacy Practice has improved its visibility and impact over the past decade, especially after 2014, when the journal became indexed in PubMed Central. The editorial process duration is one of the weaknesses that should be tackled. Further studies should investigate if the low international collaboration rate is common across other pharmacy journals.
本研究旨在描述《药学实践》创刊头十年编辑过程的模式与趋势以及其特点，最终目标是启动一个基准评估过程以提高该期刊的质量。
从PubMed中提取2006年第3期至2016年第2期发表的所有文章的元数据，并通过对全文文章进行手动数据提取过程加以补充。这些文章的引用信息于2016年8月15日从Web of Science（WOS）、Scopus和谷歌学术中检索获取。还提取了《药学实践》2015年发表的所有文章的参考文献。通过网络分析探索国际合作情况。
在此时间段内共出版了40期，包括349篇文章，其中91.1%为原创研究文章。这些文章获得的引用次数各不相同，WOS报告为809次，Scopus报告为1162次，谷歌学术报告为2610次。《药学实践》引用的期刊主要是药学期刊，包括《药学实践》（格拉纳达）、《国际临床药学杂志》、《美国卫生系统药学杂志》、《美国药学教育杂志》和《药物治疗学年鉴》。只有17.3%的文章涉及国际合作。编辑过程中的延迟在2013年有所增加，主要是由于录用延迟增加（平均=138天）。
在过去十年中，《药学实践》提高了其知名度和影响力，特别是在2014年该期刊被收录到PubMed Central之后。编辑过程持续时间是应解决的弱点之一。进一步的研究应调查其他药学期刊的国际合作率低是否普遍。
