About the ICPJE
With the aim to identify the elements that may reinforce clinical and social pharmacy practice as a scientific discipline by consolidating common publication patterns, a group of pharmacy practice journal editors met in June 2022 in Granada, Spain. As a consequence of this meeting, a series of recommendations to improve publication patterns in pharmacy practice was created (i.e., the “Granada Statements”). This type of initiative is not unprecedented. In 1978, a group of medical journal editors gathered in Vancouver, Canada to create the Uniform Requirements to submit a paper to a medical journal. Years later, this group became the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which is now one of the most used standards in scholarly publishing. A similar initiative was created approximately 30 years ago for nursing with the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE).
Our Mission
The overall mission of the ICPJE is to improve the visibility and quality of clinical and social pharmacy practice research.
Our Aims
Make pharmacy practice research more widely known within and outside the discipline.
Promote the consistent use of appropriate terminology in the field and increase the use of current MeSH terms in the titles and abstracts of papers submitted to the Granada Group of journals; at the same time, advocate for greater abundance of MeSH terms used to describe our scholarly work.
Encourage scholars to submit to the most appropriate pharmacy practice journal, avoiding journal scattering. Identify strategies to enhance the peer review process; i.e., make it clearer what is expected of peer reviewers and make it as seamless as possible to provide peer reviews.
Improve various journal metrics and indices used to measure the salience of journals comprising the discipline and at the same time promote wiser use of the metrics among stakeholders
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