Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Pharmacy 2021 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Pharmacy from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. One review and one research article will receive this award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by an award committee consisting of senior scholars from the Pharmacy Editorial Board.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Pharmacy from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021;
– Open to all career levels;
– Regular or Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2022.

Prizes:
One review and one research article will be selected for this award. Each winner (corresponding author) will receive the following prizes:
– An offer to publish a paper free of charge in Pharmacy in 2023, subject to the normal peer review procedure;
– 300 CHF;
– A certificate.

The winners will be announced by 15 March 2023.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Pharmacy 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2020 in Pharmacy were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations and downloads, two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jon Schommer, have been selected.

One review:
The Role of Hospital and Community Pharmacists in the Management of COVID-19: Towards an Expanded Definition of the Roles, Responsibilities, and Duties of the Pharmacist
By Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Muhammad Mansour, Alessandro Bonsignore and Rosagemma Ciliberti
Pharmacy 2020, 8(3), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030140

One research article:
Association of a Novel Medication Risk Score with Adverse Drug Events and Other Pertinent Outcomes Among Participants of the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
By David L. Bankes, Hubert Jin, Stephanie Finnel, Veronique Michaud, Calvin H. Knowlton, Jacques Turgeon and Alan Stein
Pharmacy 2020, 8(2), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020087 

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 300, an e-certificate and a chance to publish a paper in Pharmacy in 2022.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Pharmacy, as well as thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award. 

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Jon Schommer, Pharmacy

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2020 Travel Award sponsored by Pharmacy.

This year’s award is granted to Ricarda J. Micallef, Kingston University London, and Valerie Albert, University of Basel. The award consists of 500 Swiss Francs each to support the winners’ attendance at an academic conference of their choice in 2020.

Ricarda J. Micallef is an academic pharmacist currently appointed as Associate Professor. Her current research interests are related to pharmacists and pharmacy education, including the evaluation of training events and interventions introduced to students. Her research considers both pedagogical approaches as well as professional practice.

Valerie Albert is a pharmacist and PhD student in the Pharmaceutical Care Research Group at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research involves adherence to polypharmacy in primary care with a focus on patients who receive an oral anticoagulation therapy. She is currently investigating the influence of educational and reminder-based intervention on medication adherence of patients after a recent stroke (MAAESTRO study).

We would like to congratulate the winners and thank the selection committee for their excellent work in the hard task of selecting the winners from the large number of excellent candidate profiles submitted for consideration.

Prof. Jeffrey Atkinson
Chair of 2020 Pharmacy Travel Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Pharmacy 2019 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 in Pharmacy were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Jon Schommer, have been selected.

Community-Based Pharmacy Practice Innovation and the Role of the Community-Based Pharmacist Practitioner in the United States
By: Jean-Venable Goode, James Owen, Alexis Page and Sharon Gatewood
Pharmacy 2019, 7(3), 106

Medicine Prices, Availability, and Affordability in Private Health Facilities in Low-Income Settlements in Nairobi County, Kenya
By: Dennis Ongarora, Jamlick Karumbi, Warnyta Minnaard, Kennedy Abuga, Vincent Okungu and Isaac Kibwage
Pharmacy 2019, 7(2), 40

The winners will each receive an award of 300 CHF and an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer review procedure. We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to Pharmacy and the scientific literature. We warmly congratulate the winners.