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RSAP Annual Best Paper Award
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 12 (2016) 368
RSAP Annual Best Paper Award RSAP is pleased to announce the winning authors for its Annual Best Paper Award among articles published in 2015, Phantipa Sakthong, Phattrapa Suksanga, Rungpetch Sakulbumrungsil, and Win Winit-Watjana, for their paper titled “Development of Patient-reported Outcomes Measure of Pharmaceutical Therapy for Quality of Life (PROMPT-QoL): A novel instrument for medication management” appearing in Volume 11, Issue 3 of the journal. The following is a description of the award Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) is a quarterly publication featuring original scientific reports and comprehensive review articles in the social and administrative pharmaceutical sciences. RSAP strives to become a widely recognized venue for publishing articles that proffer new models to guide existing research, make methodological arguments, or otherwise describe the results of rigorous theory-building research. As such, RSAP considers itself as a home for papers describing the development of new models or evidencing the utility of existing administrative science models prior to their translation for use in practice. RSAP also strives to elevate pharmacy specifically through advancement of the social/administrative sciences discipline. To that end, criteria for RSAP’s annual Best Paper Award are weighted heavily by the journal’s scope and goals. All papers published in the journal are eligible for nomination and evaluation as a potential best paper; however, original research, proposed model, and review articles are more likely to achieve a higher score for evaluation by panel judges, given the following criteria. RSAP Mission/Goals/Scope. The paper advances the discipline through development of a new model or for the first time applies a well-known model to a conundrum faced in pharmacy. The model holds significant promise to advance the discipline and profession through additional testing and application. Otherwise, the paper carefully reviews and evaluates the utility of models proffered to evaluate various p,,p 0enomena in pharmacy, offering a thoughtful critique of existing liter-
ature and insightful analysis of research questions that remain unanswered. Originality. The extent to which the results of the study or review make a unique and significant contribution to the literature. The paper adds something definitive to the current body of knowledge in its respective area. Methods/Design. RSAP attempts to position itself as a “methods” journal. As such, the paper describes a study with the highest of standards and rigor in methodological approach. The authors demonstrate validity and reliability in the instrumentation employed; the study design and sampling allow confidence in the results and generalizability of the findings. Otherwise, the review paper describes in detail the search methods employed and carefully delineates inclusion/exclusion criteria, with the numbers and types of papers proceeding through each step of the search process. Context. The paper, through extensive, yet appropriate evaluation of the literature, establishes the need for the study or review and places the results in appropriate context through comparison of other work, with caution not to overstate its potential impact, yet guides the reader to the most critical contributions made. This criterion, along with the aforementioned, likely will result in this paper becoming well cited and well known, especially within the discipline, but perhaps even outside of it. RSAP would like to express sincere gratitude to the following persons who served on the panel to evaluate best paper nominations:
RSAP would like to express sincere gratitude to the following persons who served on the panel to evaluate best paper nominations Mohamed Amin (Panel Chair) Rajender Aparasu Elizabeth Manias Pauline Norris Jayashri Sankaranarayanan
1551-7411/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1551-7411(16)00034-6
RSAP Annual Best Paper Award RSAP is pleased to announce the winning authors for its Annual Best Paper Award among articles published in 2015, Phantipa Sakthong, Phattrapa Suksanga, Rungpetch Sakulbumrungsil, and Win Winit-Watjana, for their paper titled “Development of Patient-reported Outcomes Measure of Pharmaceutical Therapy for Quality of Life (PROMPT-QoL): A novel instrument for medication management” appearing in Volume 11, Issue 3 of the journal. The following is a description of the award Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) is a quarterly publication featuring original scientific reports and comprehensive review articles in the social and administrative pharmaceutical sciences. RSAP strives to become a widely recognized venue for publishing articles that proffer new models to guide existing research, make methodological arguments, or otherwise describe the results of rigorous theory-building research. As such, RSAP considers itself as a home for papers describing the development of new models or evidencing the utility of existing administrative science models prior to their translation for use in practice. RSAP also strives to elevate pharmacy specifically through advancement of the social/administrative sciences discipline. To that end, criteria for RSAP’s annual Best Paper Award are weighted heavily by the journal’s scope and goals. All papers published in the journal are eligible for nomination and evaluation as a potential best paper; however, original research, proposed model, and review articles are more likely to achieve a higher score for evaluation by panel judges, given the following criteria. RSAP Mission/Goals/Scope. The paper advances the discipline through development of a new model or for the first time applies a well-known model to a conundrum faced in pharmacy. The model holds significant promise to advance the discipline and profession through additional testing and application. Otherwise, the paper carefully reviews and evaluates the utility of models proffered to evaluate various p,,p 0enomena in pharmacy, offering a thoughtful critique of existing liter-
ature and insightful analysis of research questions that remain unanswered. Originality. The extent to which the results of the study or review make a unique and significant contribution to the literature. The paper adds something definitive to the current body of knowledge in its respective area. Methods/Design. RSAP attempts to position itself as a “methods” journal. As such, the paper describes a study with the highest of standards and rigor in methodological approach. The authors demonstrate validity and reliability in the instrumentation employed; the study design and sampling allow confidence in the results and generalizability of the findings. Otherwise, the review paper describes in detail the search methods employed and carefully delineates inclusion/exclusion criteria, with the numbers and types of papers proceeding through each step of the search process. Context. The paper, through extensive, yet appropriate evaluation of the literature, establishes the need for the study or review and places the results in appropriate context through comparison of other work, with caution not to overstate its potential impact, yet guides the reader to the most critical contributions made. This criterion, along with the aforementioned, likely will result in this paper becoming well cited and well known, especially within the discipline, but perhaps even outside of it. RSAP would like to express sincere gratitude to the following persons who served on the panel to evaluate best paper nominations:
RSAP would like to express sincere gratitude to the following persons who served on the panel to evaluate best paper nominations Mohamed Amin (Panel Chair) Rajender Aparasu Elizabeth Manias Pauline Norris Jayashri Sankaranarayanan
1551-7411/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1551-7411(16)00034-6