British Journal of Pharmacology
scientific journal
The British Journal of Pharmacology is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of experimental pharmacology. It is published for the British Pharmacological Society by Wiley-Blackwell.
The current editor-in-chief is Péter Ferdinandy. Previous editors-in-chief include Amrita Ahluwalia, Ian McGrath [1], Humphrey Rang, Alan North, Phil Moore, Bill Large, and Tony Birmingham. A sister journal, also published for the British Pharmacological Society by Wiley-Blackwell, is the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. The journal publishes research papers, review articles, commentaries and correspondence in all fields of pharmacology. It also publishes themed issues, as well as supplements.
History
The British Journal of Pharmacology was established in 1946 as the British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy, and originally published by the British Medical Association. In its first few years, many publications in the journal came from exiled German pharmacologists who had resettled in the United Kingdom. The journal obtained its current title in 1968, when the journal moved publisher to Macmillan.
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