Development Measures of the Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

The Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (JKSCPT) as a peer-reviewed semi-annual journal has published lots of clinical pharmacology articles of various fields since its first issue in May 1993. Particularly, a number of high-quality articles such as randomized controlled prospective clinical trials have been presented in this journal. The JKSCPT currently has been also indexed in Scopus, one of the famous international bibliographic databases, and the candidate journal accredited by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Although the JKSCPT has accumulated outstanding achievements as the specialized journal for clinical pharmacology in Korea, it is also true that there are many problems to be solved in order to be a more internationally recognized journal. The methods to analyze the status of a journal for the academic society were first suggested in this article. The SWOT analysis on the current status of the JKSCPT was done for establishing future development strategies. Making references to these analyzing methods of a journal and SWOT analysis, numerous problems and the suggestions for the development of the JKSCPT were presented in detail. The future model of the journal for the academic society was also briefly discussed.

An Analysis of Articles Published in the Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

BACKGROUND: To grasp the status and future directions, an analysis was done on the articles published in the Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics during recent 19 years. METHODS: All the articles published from 1993 through 2011 were retrospectively analyzed. The number of articles and their language distribution were assessed. The articles were classified according to research types. Authors' affiliations and research fields of articles were also analyzed. RESULTS: The Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics as a semi-annual journal published 353 articles (3,659 pages in total) since its first issue in May 1993. A total of 37 issues were published with the average of 10.1 articles per issue. Most articles were written in the Korean language (94.9 %). In publication type of articles, 13.2 % were review articles, 66.7 % original articles, 18.0 % symposium articles, and the rest other types. In affiliation analysis, most authors were from the academia (91.0 %), next from the industry (5.8 %), and thirdly from the authority (2.3 %). The research field dealt with the highest (28.0 %) was Pharmockinetics/Pharmacodynamics/Pharmacometrics (PPP), core of clinical pharmacology. Many articles in PPP field contained the randomized controlled prospective clinical trials, which are the highest level of evidence, indicating high quality of articles. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that the Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics reflects typically the specialized journal for clinical pharmacology. The internationalization efforts for our journal is also required.