''Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering human
pharmacology
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and
pharmacotherapy
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, published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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on behalf of the
American College of Clinical Pharmacy
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, of which it is an official journal. It was established in 1981 under founding
editor-in-chief
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Russel R. Miller. The second editor was Richard T. Scheife. The third and current editor is
C. Lindsay DeVane. Initially published six times a year the journal has been a monthly since 1991.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 6.251, ranking it 44th out of 279 journals in the category "Pharmacology & Pharmacy".
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Pharmacotherapy journals
Academic journals established in 1981
English-language journals
Monthly journals
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