Skip to main content

Articles

About the Society

The Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences (JSPHCS) was founded in 1990. It aims to strengthen the foundation of Pharmaceutical Sciences through the exchange of knowledge between society members and relative societies for the benefit of public health and professional education.

As of September 2015, the JSPHCS has over 10,000 members, including pharmacists, pharmaceutical researchers, and pharmaceutical company staff.

Society affiliation and support of Article Processing Charge (APC)

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences  is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences (JSPHCS).
If the first author of an article is a member of the JSPHCS, discounted APC is applied and 67% of it is covered by the society, so that the member author is charged only 33%. 
Members are able to request APC coverage at acceptance of the paper.
See 'Fees and funding' information section for details. 
 

Information for authors

(information updated on 8 December 2022)

As from 8 December 2022, due to system change, authors are no longer requested to submit institution code to request discount of Article Processing Charge (APC) for society members during the process of new manuscript submission. Instead, members are able to request APC coverage at editorial acceptance. 

For futher information about this discount and application process, or should you consider joining the society to take the benefit, please refer to the journal information page on JPHCS website.

Aims and scope

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences (JPHCS) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses clinical pharmacy as well as clinical and experimental pharmacotherapy.

Indexing

We are pleased to announce that all articles published in Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences are included in PubMed, PubMed Central and DOAJ.

Official journal of JSPHCS

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.2
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.4
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.557
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.312

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 7
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 88

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 407,928
    Altmetric mentions: 83