Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Forum

Hi ElMaestro,

❝ Funny. I think I know another person who was a reviewer for that ms. Sounds like there was agreement between the reviewer opinions.

I have heard that the editor faced serious problems finding victims willing to review this manuscript. Might well be that reviewer #1 suggested #2.

❝ […] I think that's a very common practice for people working in academia. Submit first to a journal with a high impact factor […], then titrate your way down to the appropriate level/journal by trial and error until acceptance.

Publish or parish. Confirmed:
Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther (1.18) → Drug Res (0.599)…

❝ Not indicating in any way that I like impact factors […]

True. BTW, in our field the champion is Les Benet with a citation index of 16,000+. His paper¹ about volumes of distribution was cited 900+ times and is still the top cited one out of the more than 18,000 articles published in J Pharm Sci since 1965. Another one² was cited 600+ times.

1. Benet LZ, Galeazzi RL. Noncompartmental Determination of the Steady-State Volume of Distribution. J Pharm Sci. 1979;68(8):1071–4. doi:10.1002/jps.2600680845.
   
2. Rowland M, Benet LZ, Graham GG. Clearance concepts in pharmacokinetics. J Pharmacokinet Biopharm. 1973;1(2):123–36. doi:10.1007/BF01059626.

If you are interested in history:

Benet L. Benet LZ and Galeazzi RL: Noncompartmental Determination of the Steady-State Volume of Distribution, J Pharm Sci 68, 1071–1074, 1979—the Backstory. AAPS J. 2012;14(2):164–67. doi:10.1208/s12248-012-9326-9, free resource.