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The
pharmaceutical industry
has emerged as a major sector of the world economy only during the
second half of the 20th Century. Today, it is a 350 billion dollar
industry spread across mainly in three continents namely North
America, Europe and parts of Asia. Almost 47 percent of the world
pharmaceutical market is controlled by North America, followed by
Europe with a market share of 24 percent. Japan alone has a market
share of 16 percent in Asia. Rest of the pharmaceutical market is
in South East Asia,
Latin America, Africa
and Australia. Growth of pharmaceutical industry has taken place
in South East Asia only during the last 15 years. India, China and
South Korea have now been recognised as the leading players in
South East Asian region producing and exporting a large number of
bulk drugs and some quantum of dosage forms to the developed
world. India emerged as key supplier of several bulk drugs to the
US and European markets during the second half of eighties.
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics (AJP) is
peer-reviewed, quarterly, open access journal published under the
auspices of TIFAC-CORE in Green Pharmacy and B R Nahata College of
Pharmacy, India.
AJP publishes reviews (comprehensive and short), original research
papers and technical notes on the topics of pharmaceutics,
biopharmaceutics, industrial pharmacy, pharmacy practice, clinical
and hospital pharmacy. There is no fee for submission, processing,
or publication of manuscripts.
Bibliographic listings:
The journal is indexed with Caspur, DOAJ,
EBSCO Publishing’s Electronic Databases, Excerpta Medica / EMBASE,
Expanded Academic ASAP, Genamics JournalSeek, Google Scholar,
Health & Wellness Research Center, Health Reference Center
Academic, Hinari, Index Copernicus, OpenJGate, SCOLOAR, SIIC
databases, Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory
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