Granada Statements - International Collaboration of Pharmacy Journal Editors

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1. Clinical and social pharmacy practice researchers should establish a commonly accepted glossary and use terms in a consistent manner.
2. Pharmacy practice and social pharmacy reviewers and journal editors should ensure standardized terminology is used in the articles they review and publish.

3. Clinical and social pharmacy practice researchers should use existing MeSH terms as part of their titles and abstracts.
4. Clinical and social pharmacy practice reviewers and journal editors should ensure that authors include the most appropriate MeSH terms in the articles they review and publish.

5. Clinical and social pharmacy practice researchers should be more proactive in becoming involved as peer reviewers to reduce the duration of the publication processes.
6. Clinical and social pharmacy practice educators and supervisors should mentor their students to serve as peer reviewers.
7. Clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors should carefully find a balance between the number of manuscripts they submit to external peer review and those that are desk rejected.
8. Clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors and publishers should consider systems to reward peer reviewers’ efforts, including public recognition of their contribution at an article level.
9. Clinical and social pharmacy practice peer reviewers should be reminded that their highly valuable role improves the quality of the manuscripts; hence it is incumbent upon them to provide constructive, quality reviews within the given timeframe.

10. Clinical and social pharmacy practice researchers should prioritize pharmacy practice and social pharmacy journals for some of their “best” papers and work to ensure the of quality of the publication process considering the specific details of the area, even while seeking wider audiences as appropriate for various components of their work.
11. Clinical and social pharmacy practice educators and supervisors should promote pharmacy practice journal centeredness among their students.
12. Clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors should give priority to clinical and social pharmacy practice articles.

13. Clinical and social pharmacy practice researchers should promote among their institutions the use of individual-based metrics to assess the performance of individuals.
14. Clinical and social pharmacy practice researchers, while maintaining autonomy, should be aware of the importance of the references they include in their published papers and consider the need to strengthen the discipline and its component journals in their manuscript bibliographies.
15. Clinical and social pharmacy practice educators and supervisors should educate undergraduate and postgraduate students in the responsible use of metrics.
16. Stakeholders in clinical and social pharmacy practice should consider broader bases rather than only journal-based metrics to connote quality and achievement in the disciplines.

17. Clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors should work with authors to identify the most appropriate journal to submit their scholarly work early in the process (i.e., during and even prior to submission, if possible).
18. Clinical and social pharmacy practice authors should heed advice and direction coming from journal editors, editorial boards, and reviewers to not only improve the quality of the original manuscript, but also be positively inclined toward the recommendations given rather than create unnecessary acrimony among scholars in the discipline.