Top Pharmacy Research and Practice Insights from JAPhA Journals

In 2025, the most-read articles across Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA), Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, JAPhA Practice Innovations, and JAPhA Pharmacotherapy reflected the issues shaping pharmacy research and practice. From advances in pharmaceutical science to real-world innovations and evidence-based pharmacotherapy, these high-usage articles highlight the critical role of research in improving medication use, patient care, and health outcomes.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA)

• Pharmacists’ Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence: A National Survey

• The Role of Pharmacy in Promoting Public Health: Pharmacy and Public Health in 2050

• A Comparison of the Essential Medicines Lists of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S Food and Drug Administration, and the World Health Organization

• Self-injection experiences among transgender people on injectable gender-affirming hormone therapy: a narrative review

• Beyond the Fill: Navigating Pharmacy's Technological Future in 2050

• The Impact of a Pharmacist-led Comprehensive Diabetes Management Program (CDMP) in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)

• Laying the foundation for success: A guide to pharmacy residency research projects

• An analysis of national news coverage of semaglutide for weight loss

• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on Effectiveness of Strategies for Enhancing Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting

• Implementation of an adult life-course vaccine review service, VaxCheck, in community pharmacy: A qualitative analysis

JAPhA Pharmacotherapy

• Evaluating the Safety of Daptomycin Co-administered with Statin Medications

• Real-World Safety Profile of Lecanemab: A Disproportionality Analysis of Adverse Events in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)

• Comparing intraoperative administration of long-acting bupivacaine, multimodal cocktails, and local anesthetics for post-operative pain management

• Overall survival of patients over 65 years old with lung cancer receiving programmed death-1 inhibitors and antibiotics

• Impact of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist/glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor agonists after bariatric surgery in the veteran population

JAPhA Practice Innovations

• Efficacy of GLP-1 agonists vs. other weight management medications in obese and overweight patients

• A comparison of diltiazem versus metoprolol for patients with atrial fibrillation presenting to the emergency department with rapid ventricular rate

• Impact of a pharmacist-led smoking cessation service on changes in patients’ attitudes toward smoking

• Developing ambulatory care clinical pharmacy services in an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in a safety net health system

• Stronger together: A community case study highlighting the benefits of pharmacy and community collaborations

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Predictive Stability in Biopharmaceuticals and Vaccines: Perspectives and Recommendations Towards Accelerating Patient Access

• Strategies for the Evaluation and Characterization of Higher-Order Structures, Supramolecular Higher-Order Structures, and Aggregates in Oligonucleotide Therapeutics

• Higher concentration of trehalose dihydrate stabilizes recombinant IgG1 under forced stress conditions

• Analytical Control Strategy for Biologics. Part I: Foundations

• Validating Otto: a Franz diffusion cell autosampler to automate in vitro permeation studies