CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology – Inception, Maturation, and Future Vision

CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology (PSP) is a cross‐disciplinary journal which publishes research articles, reviews and tutorials that bridge various disciplines including pharmacometrics, systems pharmacology modeling, physiologically based pharmacokinetics (PBPK), translational research, model‐based meta‐analyses (MBMA) of clinical trials, computational pharmacology and bioinformatics. PSP was launched in September 2012, as the second journal of American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), with the first being Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT). Since the launch of Clinical & Translational Science (CTS), PSP is now part of a family of three journals. In June 2021, approaching its 9th anniversary, PSP was granted for the first time, an impact factor. We are proud to announce that the impact factor for 2020 is 4.054. Of note, the cite score of PSP was already increasing from 4.1 in 2015 to 6.3 in 2020, which is great news for both the journal and our scientific community. Hence, for the July 2021 issue, we introduce our first video‐abstract, and in this editorial present our vision for the journal for the next ten years, and last, but certainly not least, present our new cover (Figure 1). It was selected by the Editor in Chief, associate editors and the ASCPT board members to illustrate the various aspects of PSP (molecules, equations, models, patients) and their interplay but also the cycling of the different components of model‐informed drug development (MIDD) and development and application of models as they continue to evolve. Open in a separate window FIGURE 1 New Cover for CPT:PSP