Dear Readers,
Welcome to 2013. Considering the long and rich history of Journal of Pharmacy and Bio Allied Sciences (JPBS) and current stature of journal in the pharmaceutical sciences, today I am honored and pleased to introduce JPBS’ first issue of year 2013 with more informative and good quality articles. I want to summarize for the readers of JPBS the current status of the journal and the challenges ahead us.
As the Assistant Editor, when I began to consider the future of JPBS, I was particularly excited to establish the journal in today's electronic age and to expand its reach and influence internationally. After considerable discussion, we agreed that the scientific and geographical diversity of authors to JPBS required that the journal have an equally diverse editorial team and board members. Therefore, we are in the process of increasing our membership base globally.
As done in the past, in the year 2012, we followed our trend of creating opportunities for budding scientists and innovators in pharmaceutical and bioallied world to represent their work. Organization of Pharmaceutical Unity with BioAllied Sciences (OPUBS) acted as publication partner with Gujarat Technical University for a National Conference – “Advanced Drug Delivery” organized on 24th- 25th March 2012 and the event was supported by Parul College of Pharmacy and Baroda College of Pharmacy [Figure 1]. The proceedings of the conference were published in JPBS as supplement. Similarly, we came out with dental specialists’ conference for our readers with over 300 pages [Figure 2]. In future, we look forward to bring more special issues and conference proceedings on more critical issues related to pharmaceutical and bioallied sciences.
Figure 1.
Launch of JPBS - National Conference proceedings by Gujarat Technical University and Parul Institute of Pharmacy - Baroda in National Conference – “Advanced Drug Delivery”
Figure 2.
JPBS as a publication partner in The Dental Specialists’ Conference
We thought it is very important to re-evaluate the duties and responsibilities of editor and editorial board members, to clearly articulate those duties to them from time-to-time. This decision will not only help in improving the quality of submitted articles, but also the timely review of the manuscripts.
We have received a lot of suggestions and feedbacks from our editors and authors. Soon action will be taken in this regard. We anticipate more progress this year. For any query regarding conference proceedings, journal subscriptions, and improvements, you may contact at info@opubs.com.
With Best Wishes
