American Journal of Therapeutics

American Journal of Therapeutics is a bimonthly journal of clinical therapeutics and pharmacology that publishes online only, is produced by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and was founded in 1994 by (J. C. Somberg), who also served as its first editor in chief.《美国治疗学杂志》是一份双月刊的临床治疗与药理学刊物，只出网络版，由 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 制作，1994 年由（J. C. Somberg）创办，首任主编也由他担任。

Scope

• The journal presents itself as a resource for prescribing physicians who want to follow pharmacological developments in cardiology, infectious disease, oncology, anesthesiology, nephrology, toxicology and psychotropics without working through stacks of paper journals.该刊把自己定位成处方医师的资源，帮助他们跟进心脏病学、传染病学与肿瘤学的药物学进展，还有麻醉学与肾脏病学方面的动静，毒理学与精神科用药也在其中，而不必翻检成堆的纸质期刊。

• Original articles on the latest therapeutic approaches sit next to critical articles on the drug approval process.最新治疗手段的原创论文与讨论药品审批流程的评论文章并列刊出。

• Therapeutic reviews cover pharmacokinetics, regulatory affairs, pediatric clinical pharmacology, hypertension, metabolism and drug delivery systems.治疗综述覆盖药物代谢动力学与监管事务，还涉及儿科临床药理学与高血压，物质代谢和药物递送系统也各占一席。

• The publisher lists anesthesiology, cardiology, gastroenterology and hepatology, hematology, internal medicine, oncology, pharmaceuticals, pharmacology, primary care and psychopharmacology as the specialties the title serves.出版方著录的服务专业包括麻醉学与心脏病学、消化病学与血液学，还有内科、肿瘤科与药学，以及药理学、基层医疗与精神病药理学。

• The table of contents of the current issue labels each item by type, and one number carries original investigations, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, commentaries, letters to the editor, an infographic and invited content.当前一期的目录给每篇文章标注类型，一期之内就出现了原创研究、荟萃分析与系统综述，另有评论与读者来信，还有信息图与特邀内容。

• The current issue, volume 33 number 5, lists twenty items, most of them marked as online only and six of them carrying supplementary digital content.当前一期是第 33 卷第 5 期，共列出 20 篇文章，多数标为仅在线发表，其中 6 篇附带补充数字内容。

• Every article carries a structured abstract that separates background, data source, main findings and conclusions.每篇文章都配结构式摘要，依次分列背景与数据来源，主要发现和结论单列其后。

• Observational and pharmacovigilance work is a recurring theme, with one study in the current issue drawing on 914713 adverse event reports from a Japanese drug adverse event database.观察性研究与药物警戒是常驻主题，当前一期就有一篇文章调用了日本药物不良事件数据库中的 914713 份报告。

• Therapeutic reviews on newer agents for inflammatory and immune mediated disease are a staple of the journal.针对炎症与免疫介导疾病新药的综述是该刊的常备内容。

• The journal also runs themed commentaries on single drugs and on disease areas, such as the current piece on oral therapy for gonorrhoea.该刊还设有针对单一药物与疾病领域的专题评论，当前一期就有一篇谈口服药治疗淋病的文章。

• Clinical trial reports appear regularly, including a multicentre randomised comparison of hospital antibiotic therapy against outpatient parenteral treatment.临床试验报告经常出现，当前一期就有一项多中心随机研究，把住院抗生素治疗与门诊肠外给药作比较。

• Single patient accounts reach the journal through the letters to the editor section, where a drug induced interstitial nephritis report and a bullous pemphigoid case both appear.个案材料走读者来信一栏，当前一期既有药源性间质性肾炎的报告，也有大疱性类天疱疮的病例。

• Infographics summarise individual studies for quick reading.信息图栏目把单篇研究压缩成便于速读的图示。

• The publisher distributes the journal on its own online platform, where the current issue and the archive of past issues can be browsed.出版方通过自有在线平台发行该刊，当前一期与过往各期都能在平台上检索。

• A front file from 2015 onward sits on the platform, while earlier material is sold as an archive.平台上存放着 2015 年起的正文文件，更早的内容则作为档案单独销售。

History

• The journal was founded in 1994, and the first issue appeared in June of that year as volume 1 number 1.该刊创办于 1994 年，同年 6 月推出创刊号，为第 1 卷第 1 期。

• The catalogue record gives the founding imprint as New York with Chapman and Hall as publisher.编目记录给出的创刊印地是纽约，出版方为 Chapman & Hall。

• The first issue opened with a short editorial by the founding editor (J. C. Somberg) called To Begin Again.创刊号以创始主编（J. C. Somberg）的一篇短社论开篇，题目是「重新开始」。^[1]

• (J. C. Somberg) wrote the editorial on the basis of pharmaceutical approval in the same opening volume and ran a recurring Clinical Therapeutic Conference feature.同一创刊卷里，（J. C. Somberg）还撰写了讨论药品审批基础的社论，并主持了「临床治疗会议」这一常设专栏。^[2]

• The catalogue record keeps an earlier title for the serial, the Journal of the American Therapeutics Association, so the title was once the organ of that body.编目记录里还留着该连续出版物早期的题名 Journal of the American Therapeutics Association，说明它一度是该协会的机关刊物。

• The publishing imprint changed to Lippincott Williams and Wilkins in Philadelphia from 1998 onward.印地自 1998 年起换到费城的 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins。

• The frequency moved more than once in the early years, four issues in 1994, monthly from 1995 to 1997 and bimonthly from 1998.该刊在最初几年换过几次刊期，1994 年每年四期，1995 至 1997 年为月刊，1998 年起改为双月刊。

• The catalogue record states that print issues ceased with volume 19 in 2012, and the platform now marks articles as online only.编目记录写明纸本止于 2012 年的第 19 卷，平台如今也把文章标为仅在线发表。

• The serial has run without interruption since volume 1 number 1, and by 2026 it had reached volume 33.该连续出版物自第 1 卷第 1 期起从未中断，到 2026 年已出到第 33 卷。

• Each issue pairs two months, with the 2026 issues running January and February, March and April, May and June, July and August, September and October and November and December.每期合并两个月出版。2026 年的期次以两个月为一份，前三期是 1 至 2 月、3 至 4 月与 5 至 6 月，后三期是 7 至 8 月、9 至 10 月与 11 至 12 月。

• The founding editor ran the early volumes and signed off in 2015 with a short editorial, after which (Peter Manu) has led the journal.创始主编主持了早期各卷，并在 2015 年以一篇短社论告别，此后的主编是（Peter Manu）。^[3]

• Medline coverage in the catalogue record runs from volume 4 number 1 in January 1997, with full indexing in MEDLINE and PubMed and earlier listing in the Index Medicus.编目记录中的 Medline 收录自 1997 年 1 月的第 4 卷第 1 期起，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 均为全文收录，更早还见于《医学索引》。

• The publisher's platform places the journal in the pharmacology and pharmacy category of the Journal Citation Reports and gives its rank there.出版方平台把该刊列在 Journal Citation Reports 的药学与药理学类目中，并给出该类目内的名次。

• The earliest volumes carried recurring conference features edited by the founding editor, and the Clinical Therapeutic Conference series ran on into the following decade.最早几期设有由创始主编主持的会议专栏，其中「临床治疗会议」系列一直延续到下一个十年。

• The catalogue record was created in 1994 and has been revised repeatedly, most recently in 2026.这条编目记录建于 1994 年，此后多次修订，最近一次在 2026 年。

Editors

• (Peter Manu) is editor in chief and works from the Department of Medicine at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University in Amityville, New York.主编是（Peter Manu），任职于纽约州阿米蒂维尔的 Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University 内科学系。

• The publisher's own journal page gives the editorial office address in Amityville with a telephone number in that town.出版方的刊页给出编辑部的阿米蒂维尔地址与当地电话。

• Three deputy editors stand beside the editor in chief, (Gheorghe-Andrei Dan), (Lorena Dima) and (Liliana Rogozea).主编之侧设三位副主编，分别是（Gheorghe-Andrei Dan）、（Lorena Dima）与（Liliana Rogozea）。

• Six associate editors handle submissions, (Joseph Conigliaro), (Marc L. Gordon), (David H. Gorski), (Joseph Mattana), (Antoni Martinez Rubio) and (Miriam Smith).另有六位副编辑处理来稿。（Joseph Conigliaro）与（Marc L. Gordon）在其中，（David H. Gorski）也是名单上的人，其余三位是（Joseph Mattana）、（Antoni Martinez Rubio）与（Miriam Smith）。

• The editorial board page lists thirty four members by name, among them (Wilbert S. Aronow), (Pascal Cathébras), (Dan L. Dumitrascu), (Jonathan S. Jahr) and (Corey Karlin-Zysman).编委页列出 34 位成员。（Wilbert S. Aronow）与（Pascal Cathébras）在名单上，（Dan L. Dumitrascu）和（Jonathan S. Jahr）也是编委，（Corey Karlin-Zysman）同样在列。

• Further board members include (Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz), (Owen S. Muir), (Matej Samoš), (Victor Serebruany), (Hitesh H. Shah), (Marco Solmi), (Nicola Veronese), (Dragos Vinereanu) and (William B. White).其余成员还有（Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz）与（Owen S. Muir），名单继续列着（Matej Samoš）、（Victor Serebruany）与（Hitesh H. Shah），再往后是（Marco Solmi）、（Nicola Veronese）与（Dragos Vinereanu），（William B. White）是其中一员。

• The board page gives the names without affiliations, so the institutional base of individual members is not stated there.编委页只给姓名不列单位，各成员所在机构在页面上并无说明。

• Some board members also write for the journal, and (Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz) and (Burton J. Tabaac) both have items in the current issue.部分编委成员也为本刊撰稿，（Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz）与（Burton J. Tabaac）在当前一期都有文章。

• The journal's first issue already carried a paper by (Jonathan S. Jahr), who later appears on the editorial board.该刊创刊号就刊有（Jonathan S. Jahr）的论文，他后来出现在编委名单里。

• Production is handled on the publisher side by a journal publisher and a production editor, with the business offices at Two Commerce Square in Philadelphia.出版方一侧由期刊出版经理与制作编辑负责日常运作，办公地址在费城 Two Commerce Square。

• Translations, rights and licensing are handled by a dedicated rights team, and commercial reprints are sold through a separate reprints service.翻译、版权与授权由专门的版权团队处理，商业重印品则通过独立的重印服务销售。

• Manuscripts are submitted through an external submission service rather than on the journal site, and the publisher warns that work which ignores the stated instructions is more likely to be rejected.稿件通过外部投稿系统递交而非在刊页直接提交，出版方提醒，不按既定须知撰写的稿件更容易被退回。

• The detailed author instructions live on that submission service, so the formatting rules are published away from the journal page.详细的作者须知放在该投稿系统上，格式规则因此公布在刊页之外。

• The peer review model is not spelled out on the pages that remain publicly reachable, so the review arrangement is left unstated here.同行评议方式在仍可公开访问的页面上没有写明，这里的评审安排因此留白。

• The current issue carries an invited content item on oral therapy for gonorrhoea, drawn up in the journal's infographic style.当前一期有一篇特邀内容谈口服药治疗淋病，以该刊惯用的信息图体例写成。

• The title is listed in the public directory of members of the Committee on Publication Ethics, which records the participating publisher as Wolters Kluwer.该刊列在出版伦理委员会的公开会员名录中，名录把出版方登记为 Wolters Kluwer。