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Incepted in 1995, the Journal of Managed Care + Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP) is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. AMCP is the professional association leading the way to help patients get the medications they need at a cost they can afford. AMCP’s diverse membership of pharmacists, physicians, nurses, biopharmaceutical professionals, and other stakeholders leverage their specialized expertise in clinical evidence and economics to optimize medication benefit design and population health management and help patients access cost-effective and safe medications and other drug therapies. AMCP members improve the lives of nearly 300 million Americans served by private and public health plans, pharmacy benefit management firms, and emerging care models. Visit www.amcp.org.

Our Mission

To advance science, expertise, and evidence-based decision-making to improve patient health through access to high-quality, cost-effective medications and other therapies.

Our Strengths

• Timely, expert review of manuscripts by peer-reviewers with in-depth expertise in managed care pharmacy, real-world evidence, and economic modeling
• Publication of actionable research that influences the practice of managed care pharmacy and policymaking
• Free access enables wide dissemination of findings to the broad health care, research, and policy communities
• Commitment to promote the role of managed care pharmacy’s role in addressing racial and social inequities in medication use
• Adherence to the highest standards of publication ethics, peer review, and editorial independence
• Publication of plain language summaries facilitates accessibility by a broad audience

 Our Facts

• Impact factor: 2.9 (2024)
• Prompt decisions: Median time to first decision of 40 days
• Prompt time to publication: Acceptance to publication in 3-4 months
• Express E-publication available: Acceptance to publication in 5 weeks or less
• Indexing: MEDLINE/PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Scopus, and Crossref
• Broad audience: 15,000 readers, 50,000 monthly views
• Reach of decision-makers: Readership includes >14,000 health system leaders, >7,100 health plan professionals, and more than 4,200 managed care executives
• Free access: Full text of all articles is available online with no paywall
• Supplements: Peer-reviewed specialized collections of articles funded by a sponsor

Our Guiding Principles

As the premier journal in managed care pharmacy thought leadership and research, we:

1. Publish scientific research, real-world evidence, commentary, and practice guidance that is actionable in managed care pharmacy practice
2. Foster the exchange of ideas across health care decision-makers, policymakers, managed care pharmacy practitioners, specialty pharmacy practitioners, academicians, drug developers, and patients
3. Explore current and emerging trends in managed care and specialty pharmacy
4. Influence policy by informing the managed care pharmacy community, government, media, and others concerned with access to high-quality, cost-effective therapies
5. Embrace broad ethical, legal, social, and public health frameworks
6. Promote managed care pharmacy’s role in addressing racial and social inequities in medication use
7. Maintain policies that foster the highest standards of research ethics and integrity by investigators who publish in our journal
8. Adhere to the highest standards of publication ethics, peer review, and editorial independence