UB pharmacy school achieves top ten ranking for AJPE published manuscripts

“This achievement directly supports our strategic goal to support and promote faculty excellence in the scholarship of teaching and learning,” says William Prescott, clinical professor and chair, pharmacy practice.

The school's 2019 AJPE Impact Factor also increased by a remarkable 72%, from 1.737 in 2018 to 2.398. The impact factor is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years.

The school's 2019 AJPE published manuscripts were:

• Pharmacy Students' Ability to Identify Fall Risk-Increasing Drugs Using an Innovative Assessment Tool
  Robert G. Wahler, Christine Piccione (PharmD ’18) and Jaime Maerten-Rivera
  
• Pharmacy Students’ Standardized Self-Assessment of Interprofessional Skills During an Objective Structured Clinical Examination
  Fred Doloresco, Jaime Maerten-Rivera, Yichen Zhao, Kelly Foltz-Ramos and Nicholas M. Fusco
  
• Improving Pharmacy Students’ Attitudes Toward Collaborative Practice Through a Large-scale Interprofessional Forum Targeting Opioid Dependence
  Nicholas M. Fusco, Jaime Maerten-Rivera, Fred Doloresco and Patricia J. Ohtake
  
• Consideration of Aggressive and Strategic Approaches to Address Declining Enrollment in US Pharmacy Schools
  Nina Pavuluri, Rajender R. Aparasu, Kathleen M.K. Boje, Jennifer Danielson, Shareen Y. El-Ibiary, Anand Krishnan V. Iyer, Leslie A. Ochs, Jennifer D. Robinson, Samit Shah, Christopher C. Williams, Timothy M. Moore and Kurt A. Wargo
  
• Immunization Education in US Pharmacy Colleges and Schools
  William Allan Prescott and Christian Bernhardi (PharmD ’18)
  
• A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Cultural Competency in the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum
  Gina M. Prescott and Alyssa Nobel (PharmD ’18)
  
• A Study of the Relationship Between the PCOA and NAPLEX Using a Multi-institutional Sample
  Michael J. Rudolph, Justine S. Gortney, Jaime L. Maerten-Rivera, Brenda S. Bray, Sachin Shah, Bradley E. Hein, Elizabeth A. Coyle and Shauna M. Buring
  

The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is the official scholarly publication of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Its purpose is to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the United States and internationally.