Clinical pharmacology as seen through two of its journals.

The following article gives an overall view of the manuscripts that have been published in two journals dedicated to clinical pharmacology. Such an analysis can only be a quantitative one, since it is not possible to categorize the papers according to their scientific value. One reason for the fact that pharmacokinetic problems have found so much interest among clinical pharmacologists may be the scarcity of data available until recently. It may be expected, indeed the past year the tendency was already evident in the 'Europ. J. clin. Pharmacol.; that other fields of clinical pharmacology will be increasingly considered when a basic knowledge of pharmacokinetics has become available for standard therapeutics.