''The Pharmaceutical Journal'' is a

professional journal A professional magazine or professional journal is a periodical published by the governing body of a profession."Professional Magazines or Journals" iProfessional/Trade Journals Piedmont College, Library. The standard of quality of such a periodical ...

covering various aspects of

pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...

, including

pharmacology Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur betwee ...

and

pharmaceutics Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or an existing drug into a medication to be used safely and effectively by patients. The patients could be either humans or animals. Ph ...

. It is published by, and is the official journal of, Britain's professional organisation for pharmacists, the

Royal Pharmaceutical Society The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPharmS or RPS) is the body responsible for the leadership and support of the pharmacy profession (pharmacists) within England, Scotland, and Wales. It was created along with the General Pharmaceutical Council ...

(formerly the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain). The ''PJ'' is considered to be "among the oldest professional journals in the world". It first appeared in July 1841 as a monthly journal called ''Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings'' (or ''Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions''); it became ''The Pharmaceutical Journal'' in 1895, ''The Pharmaceutical Journal and Pharmacist'' in 1909, and back to ''The Pharmaceutical Journal'' in 1933.''The Pharmaceutical Journal''
Publication history and persistent archives of complete issues, on ''onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu''. It was originally produced by Jacob Bell, who was one of the founders of the (Royal) Pharmaceutical Society. The monthly publication became a weekly journal in 1870. After it became the ''Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions'' in 1842, "within a year it had all the features of an orthodox professional journal: leading articles, meeting reports, critical commentaries, letters, and book reviews. In 1859, Bell bequeathed the journal to the Pharmaceutical Society on his deathbed. Its first series comprised 18 volumes from to 1841 to 1859; its second series 11 volumes from 1859 to 1870; its third series 25 volumes from 1870 to 1895; its fourth series was numbered both by series and by overall "complete series" publication (volume 1 of the fourth series was also volume 55 of the "complete series"). Later, volumes were only numbered based on the "complete series".
More recently, the ''PJ'' was an early adopter of online publication. In 2015 its printed version reverted to monthly publication while the online journal continued with daily updates. In 2021, the journal ceased publishing its print edition and became online only.

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