Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archive
| Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology
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| Area of Expertise | pharmacology |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Springer Science + Business Media |
| First edition | 1873 |
| Web link | springer.com |
| ISSN (print) | 0028-1298 |
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology , originally the Archives of Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology , today Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology , is the oldest still existing specialist journal for pharmacology. The first volume appeared in 1873. This was followed, in order of age, in 1895 by the Archives internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Thérapie , Gent , and in 1909 by the Journal of Pharmacology and experimental Therapeutics , Baltimore .
The journal is also an organ of the German Pharmacological Society , today the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology . Reports on the Society's congresses are published in the journal.
founding
The journal was founded by the internist Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925), then in Königsberg (Prussia) , the pharmacologist Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838–1921), then in Strasbourg , and the pathologist Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), then in Prague . Schmiedeberg's student Hans Horst Meyer expressed the idea behind the combination of subjects in his obituary for Schmiedeberg:
“Right at the beginning of his activity in Strasbourg in 1872, the Archive for Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology published by Klebs, Naunyn and Schmiedeberg was founded , a company that was to become extremely important for the development of theoretical medicine in Germany. The association of the editors and the title of the journal expressed the close relationship between pharmacology and pathology, in that both sciences have to share the common task of studying and mastering life processes under abnormal conditions. This has in fact led to a lively exchange of problems and working methods in closely related disciplines and has borne fruit for all parts, but also for normal physiology in particular. "
History until today
Publishers and editors
Volumes 1 (1873) to 158 (1930) were published by Verlag FCW Vogel, Leipzig , and the volumes have since been published by Springer-Verlag . Klebs remained editor until volume 18, 1884, Schmiedeberg up to volume 90, 1921, Naunyn up to volume 109, 1925. They were followed by Rudolf Boehm (1844–1926), Walther Straub (1874–1944), Otto Riesser ( 1882–1949), Ludwig Lendle (1899–1969), Wolfgang Heubner (1877–1957) and Peter Holtz (1902–1970), as internal editors Ludolf von Krehl (1861–1937) and Ludwig Heilmeyer (1899–1969), as pathological editor Franz Büchner (1895–1991). The most influential editor in the second half of the 20th century - from 1969 to 1987 - was Ullrich Trendelenburg (1922–2006).
After Naunyn's death in 1925, the names of the two more important founders were added to the name of the journal: from volume 110 it was called Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archive for Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology .
time of the nationalsocialism
The dismissal of Jewish scholars from 1933 onwards is reflected in the composition of the editorial board. For example, on the title page of Volume 188, 1938, behind the names of three consultative editors, namely Philipp Ellinger (1887–1952), Hermann Freund (1882–1944) and Otto Riesser (1882–1949), the city in which they are missing worked, and behind Werner Lipschitz (1892–1948) is Istanbul instead of Frankfurt am Main as previously stated: the four Jewish scientists had lost their chairs in Germany in 1933.
Volume 181 (1936) reports on the business meeting of the German Pharmacological Society, in which the statutes had to be changed in the context of National Socialist conformity . From April 24 to 28, 1938, the Society's last pre-war meeting took place in Berlin (the first post-war meeting followed in Hamburg in 1947). The report on the Berlin Congress is in Volume 190 (1938). In his opening address, the chairman at the time, Ferdinand Flury , addressed "particularly warm words ... to the members from Austria, whom he was happy to welcome for the first time as members of the German Reich". It ended like this: “Before we go to work, we pay homage to the first worker of our people, the patron of German science, the creator of the new Greater German Reich. In grateful solidarity and loyal devotion, we greet our Führer Adolf Hitler with a triple Sieg-Heil! ”In contrast, the Berlin host Wolfgang Heubner , the director of the Pharmacological Institute there, gave a courageous speech against irrationalism and racial hatred and for reason, honesty, Conscience and the "global solidarity of scholars, in which the question of origin or descent is indifferent to the question of the contribution of the individual to the happiness of the spirit". He clearly alluded to the fate of Otto Loewi , who was thrown into prison during the annexation of Austria in March 1938, which was welcomed by Flury .
internationalization
Three significant changes marked the time around 1970: Most of the articles in the journal had always been of a pharmacological nature. This was taken into account in 1969 with the shortening of Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archive for Pharmacology . The second change resulted from the general history of the development of English as the predominant publication language in the natural sciences: in 1972 the journal was Anglicized to Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology , and English became a compulsory language. Third, the number of editors and advisory editors has increased considerably, and a large proportion of them have since come from non-German-speaking countries.
This development can be seen in the number of articles per year (see picture): The First and Second World Wars brought deep drops, while Anglicisation increased the number of publications per year as well as the proportion of publications from non-German-speaking countries.
So far - until 2010 - 381 volumes have been published. By the anniversary year 1998 - the journal was 125 years old - 14,491 scientific papers had been published.
The journal's impact factor in 2014 was 2.471. According to the ISI Web of Knowledge , this impact factor ranks the journal 119th out of 254 journals in the Pharmacology and Pharmacy category.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans H. Meyer: Schmiedebergs work. In: Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archive for Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology , 1922, 92, pp. I-XVII.
- ↑ a b Klaus Starke : A history of Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology . In: Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology , 1998, 358, pp. 1-109