Dear Colleagues,
Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TJPS) serves as an important scientific platform to all research areas of pharmaceutical sciences. In the upcoming term, I myself, being the new Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial Team along with our renewed Editorial Board members, we have decided to keep going with new cover of the journal from the current volume on. Our aim is to improve scientific quality of the papers published in the journal, which is being rapidly reputed, as well as the raise its quartile status and enable the journal to be listed in SCI. For this purpose, citations to the journal are highly critical and we would like you to cite more articles published in TJPS. This journal is for all of us and we should support our journal in every way with support from scientific community.
Within this year, we are planning to publish two special issues focused on specific topics and also invite worldwide reputed scientists to submit article to increase recognition of the journal. In this endeavor, we are also open to your offers. New activities planned for TJPS with our new Editorial Board and Academy of Pharmacy will be shared with you in turn. One of them was to present you the new cover as I have just mentioned and the second one is to remove the titles and abstracts in Turkish. Starting today, TJPS will be published completely in English. The third one is that TJPS will be an online journal starting from 2022 with environmentally-friendly policy and, therefore, no hardcopy will be provided anymore.
As you may know, we keep receiving many article submissions, which have already piled up in our hand. However, due to this pile up, please be aware that many of the newly accepted papers will be forwarded to next year after the consent of researchers. Before you submit your paper to TJPS, please make sure it to be strictly in accordance with the journal guidelines. In order to guide the authors, the statistics tab of our journal website, acceptance, rejection, and assessment durations of the candidate articles are transparently shared with the authors. No articles without the ethical permission and proper statistical analysis (if needed) will be possible to publish in our journal with direct rejection.
Finally, we are grateful to Turkish Pharmacists Association for their precious support to TJPS. As the new Editorial Team, we would like to thank to previous Editors, Associate Editors, and Editorial Board members of the journal, who brought the journal to its current position by making invaluable efforts. We are aware of our responsibility and work hard to take TJPS at higher levels. Many thanks from us also go to the authors and reviewers who have contributed and supported the journal up to date.
Please enjoy volume 19 (1), February issue of TJPS and follow website of the journal for upcoming news.
With my kind regards,
Prof. İlkay Erdoğan Orhan, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief