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RSAP Annual Impact Paper Award
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 12 (2016) 369
RSAP Annual Impact Paper Award RSAP is pleased to announce the winning authors of its inaugural Annual Impact Paper Award for 2015, Jon C. Schommer and Caroline A. Gaither, for their paper titled “A segmentation analysis for pharmacists’ and patients’ views of pharmacists’ roles” appearing in Volume 10, Issue 3 of the journal. The following is a description of the award. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) is a bi-monthly 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 theorybuilding 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, RSAP recognized an annual Impact Paper Award in recognition of the article deemed to have the highest impact in doing so. Impact is measured through various means. While an imperfect measure, Impact Factor scores of journals have momentous implications. Figuring much into Impact Factor scores are the number of citations received by the journal’s constituent papers.
1551-7411/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1551-7411(16)00030-9
Each year’s Impact Paper will have been cited among the most frequently during the previous two calendar years. Additionally, the Impact Paper will have led, or be among the leaders in page downloads, further evidence of it being read and used by researchers and by instructors/mentors of peers and students. While citations are important, an additional consideration is the sources of those citations. Self-citations are not as powerful as citations by others. Moreover, while citations in the pharmacy literature are important, RSAP will pay special mind to citations of papers that are occurring outside the field of pharmacy, thus suggesting the article impact transcending its more immediate field and causing scholars from other disciplines to take note of the work, the journal, and the area of social & administrative pharmacy. RSAP’s Editor-in-Chief will determine the winning paper in consultation with the journal’s publisher, who provides key data and lends particular insight to the process. The corresponding author must be have his or her contact information available and be in good standing with RSAP’s editorial office.
RSAP Annual Impact Paper Award RSAP is pleased to announce the winning authors of its inaugural Annual Impact Paper Award for 2015, Jon C. Schommer and Caroline A. Gaither, for their paper titled “A segmentation analysis for pharmacists’ and patients’ views of pharmacists’ roles” appearing in Volume 10, Issue 3 of the journal. The following is a description of the award. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) is a bi-monthly 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 theorybuilding 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, RSAP recognized an annual Impact Paper Award in recognition of the article deemed to have the highest impact in doing so. Impact is measured through various means. While an imperfect measure, Impact Factor scores of journals have momentous implications. Figuring much into Impact Factor scores are the number of citations received by the journal’s constituent papers.
1551-7411/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1551-7411(16)00030-9
Each year’s Impact Paper will have been cited among the most frequently during the previous two calendar years. Additionally, the Impact Paper will have led, or be among the leaders in page downloads, further evidence of it being read and used by researchers and by instructors/mentors of peers and students. While citations are important, an additional consideration is the sources of those citations. Self-citations are not as powerful as citations by others. Moreover, while citations in the pharmacy literature are important, RSAP will pay special mind to citations of papers that are occurring outside the field of pharmacy, thus suggesting the article impact transcending its more immediate field and causing scholars from other disciplines to take note of the work, the journal, and the area of social & administrative pharmacy. RSAP’s Editor-in-Chief will determine the winning paper in consultation with the journal’s publisher, who provides key data and lends particular insight to the process. The corresponding author must be have his or her contact information available and be in good standing with RSAP’s editorial office.