Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Pharmacy 2020 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Pharmacy from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. 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 awards:
– Papers published in Pharmacy from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020;
– Open to all career levels;
– Regular or Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal awards committee according to the following criteria:
– Originality and significance;
– Citation and download rates in the year 2021;
– Data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

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 2022, subject to the normal peer review procedure;
– 300 CHF;
– A certificate.

The winners will be announced by 15 March 2022.

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

This year’s awards are granted to Ricarda J. Micallef, Kingston University London, and Valerie Albert, University of Basel. The awards consist 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 Awards

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Pharmacy 2019 Best Paper Awards. All papers published from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 in Pharmacy were considered for the awards. 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.