Creating a Pharmacy Publication Repository: Benchmarking Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Scholarship in a Pharmacy Department
by Alexander C. Mohr, PharmD, I. Rex Beazer, PharmD, MBA, Ashley Ziedler, MLIS, Garret Newkirk, PharmD, MS, Kristin H. Busse, PharmD, William J. Peppard, PharmD
Abstract:
Objectives: The purpose of this initiative was to quantify scholarship of pharmacists at Froedtert Health (FH), categorize their publications according to the quality metrics of the journals in which they were published, and create a repository to organize the data.
Methods: This project was a retrospective evaluation of publications written by pharmacists employed at Froedtert Health from the health system’s founding in 1980 through 2023. Quantity of publications was measuredfor all employees and for residents. Quality metrics for each publication’s journal included journal citation indicator (JCI) quartile, JCI percentile, JCIcategory, and journal impact factor (JIF).
Results: In total, 299 publications by Froedtert Health employees were identified from 1980 through 2023. Residents were authors for 79(26.4%) of the publications. The journals with the most publications were the Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin(JPSW) and theAmericanJournal of Health-System Pharmacy(AJHP) with 37 publications each. The top JCI category was Pharmacology & Pharmacy. Overall, JCI quartiles one and two accounted for slightly over half of all publications in the repository. Journals in the third quartile accounted for the greatest proportion of publications (85/207, 41.1%). The mean JIF was 3.58.
Conclusions: Creation of a scholarship repository allowed for objective measurement of publications. The data in the tool demonstrated increases in the volume of publications and quality metrics over time.
Keywords: Research, Medical writing, Health system
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Abstract:
Objectives: The purpose of this initiative was to quantify scholarship of pharmacists at Froedtert Health (FH), categorize their publications according to the quality metrics of the journals in which they were published, and create a repository to organize the data.
Methods: This project was a retrospective evaluation of publications written by pharmacists employed at Froedtert Health from the health system’s founding in 1980 through 2023. Quantity of publications was measuredfor all employees and for residents. Quality metrics for each publication’s journal included journal citation indicator (JCI) quartile, JCI percentile, JCIcategory, and journal impact factor (JIF).
Results: In total, 299 publications by Froedtert Health employees were identified from 1980 through 2023. Residents were authors for 79(26.4%) of the publications. The journals with the most publications were the Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin(JPSW) and theAmericanJournal of Health-System Pharmacy(AJHP) with 37 publications each. The top JCI category was Pharmacology & Pharmacy. Overall, JCI quartiles one and two accounted for slightly over half of all publications in the repository. Journals in the third quartile accounted for the greatest proportion of publications (85/207, 41.1%). The mean JIF was 3.58.
Conclusions: Creation of a scholarship repository allowed for objective measurement of publications. The data in the tool demonstrated increases in the volume of publications and quality metrics over time.
Keywords: Research, Medical writing, Health system
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2024 July/August Table of Contents