For the purpose of evaluating importance of Japanese pharmaceutical journals, a survey of abstracts reproduced in the annual reports of five pharmaceutical laboratories, including Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd. was made. Journals were ranked according to the number of articles contained, from which these abstracts were made. There were 87 journals which contained 2 or more articles. The ranking made by this survey was compared with 2 other rankings, one made by questionnaires and the other by circulation counting. Among findings about the 87 journals obtained from this survey were the subject fields included in these journals, number of laboratories that contributed articles to them, whether the articles being abstracted in the Chemical Abstracts or not, etc. A shortcoming of the method of evaluating journals by counting number of articles contributed is that it overlooks some important journals of clinical medicine and annual reports of laboratories, but the method is useful to know the journals of pharmaceutical and related fields, and is not affected by the surveyor's subjective point of view.
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