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Aims and scope

The Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy addresses advances in acute, chronic, and end-of-life symptom management as it relates to pharmacotherapy.

The Journal publishes original research, timely review articles, case reports, commentaries, book and media reviews, and articles on efficacy, safety, cost-effectiveness, availability, delivery systems, ethics, policy, philosophy, and other issues relevant to pharmacotherapy in the management of acute, chronic, and end-of-life pain and related symptoms. The journal also features a “Narratives in Pain” section written by everyday people who have chronic pain themselves or loved ones who do.

The Journal’s interdisciplinary, international, 32-member Editorial Board includes leading clinicians, investigators and analysts from the disciplines of bioethics, medicine, nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, psychology, social work, and health care policy.

Journal metrics

Usage

60K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.493 (2023) SNIP
0.355 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

18 days avg. from submission to first decision
45 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
21 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
43% acceptance rate

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Journal metrics in brief

Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).

Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.

Citation Metrics

Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.

Speed/acceptance

From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.

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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Laura Meyer-Junco, PharmD, BCPS, CPE
Clinical Assistant Professor and Clinical Pharmacist
University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy
Rockford, IL

Evidence-based Pain Management and Palliative Care Editor

Philip J. Wiffen, MSc, MRPharmS
Pain Relief Unit
Churchill Hospital
Oxford, United Kingdom

Founding Editor and Former Editor-in-Chief

The late Arthur G. Lipman, PharmD

Editorial Board

Bioethics

Ben A. Rich, JD, PhD
Professor, and School of Medicine
Alumni Association Endowed Chair of Bioethics
University of California, Davis Health System
Sacramento, California

Medicine

Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD
Vice-Chair of Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Associate Professor and Medical Director, University Pain Institute
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jairo Moyano, MD, PhD
Chief of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Program
University Hospital Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
Clinical Professor El Bosque University
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of the Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

Lee S. Simon, MD
Principal, SDG LLC
Former Harvard Medical School faculty member
Former Division Head, Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH
Director, EMLine
Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Mendoza, Argentina

Eugene Viscusi, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Director of Acute Pain Management
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nursing

Paul M. Arnstein, RN, PhD
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Pain Relief
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Boston, Massachusetts

Patrick J.Coyne, MSN,ACHPN,ACNS-BC,FAAN,FPCN
Program Director, Palliative Care
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Nursing
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Debra B. Gordon, RN-BC, MS, DNP, ACNS-BC, FAAN
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine,
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Patient Advocacy and Education

Yvette Colón, PhD, ACSW, BCD
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Pharmaceutical Sciences

David Craig, PharmD
Pharmacist Lead, Acute Pain & Supportive Care
Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, Florida

Erin Fox, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP
Director, Drug Information Service
University of Utah Health Care
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacotherapy
College of Pharmacy, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Ewan McNicol, PharmD, MS
Clinical Pharmacist
Departments of Pharmacy and Anesthesia
Tufts Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

Mandy Mullins, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Pain Management and Palliative Care
VA St. Louis Medical Center
Jefferson Barracks Division

Gary M. Oderda, PharmD, MPH
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacotherapy
College of Pharmacy
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dave Peterson, PharmD, BCPS
University of Utah Health
Drug Information Service

Policy, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs

James H. Ruble, PharmD, JD
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Department of Pharmacotherapy
College of Pharmacy
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Abstracting and indexing

• Adis International Ltd.
• British Library Board
• EBSCOhost
• EMBASE
• Scopus, 1993-2001
• National Library of Medicine; PubMed/MEDLINEOCLC
• Ovid
• Periodica Islamica, 1992-
• Plexus Publishing, Inc.; Biology Digest, vol.16, no.1, 2002-vol.18, no.3, 2004
• ProQuest

Open access

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Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
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Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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Currently known as:

Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy (2002 - current)

Formerly known as

The Hospice Journal (1985 - 2001)

Incorporates

Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control (1993 - 2001)

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Journal metrics in brief

Citation Metrics

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Abstracting and indexing

Open access

Why choose open access?

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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