JPA Prize in 2012

JPA Prize Medal

The six top cited papers awarded the 2012 JPA Prize were as follows:

1. Akhilesh Vikram Singh*, Lila K. Nath, Nihar R. Pani. Development and validation of analytical method for the estimation of lamivudine in rabbit plasma.

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2011,1(4):251-257.

2. E. Gerace*, A. Salomone, G. Abbadessa, S. Racca, M. Vincenti. Rapid determination of anti-estrogens by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in urine: Method validation and application to real samples.

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2012,2(1):1-11.

Figure 4 Selected-ion chromatograms of extracted urine samples obtained from patients treated with (B) letrozole. For letrozole the metabolites, not the original drug, are detected. Left: urine spiked reference standard; center: blank urine; right: real urine samples.

3. Hu Yu, Hui Mu*, Ying-Mei Hu. Determination of fl uoroquinolones, sulfonamides, and tetracyclines multiresidues simultaneously in porcine tissue by MSPD Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2012,2(1):76-81.

4. Anna Palou, Jordi Cruz, Marcelo Blanco, Jaume Tomàs, Joaquín de los Ríos, Manel Alcalà*. Determination of drug, excipients and coating distribution in pharmaceutical tablets using NIR-CI.

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2012,2(2):90-97.

Figure 4 Concentration distribution maps and histograms for API and excipients for side A of a core calculated by PLS. In parenthesis is shown the nominal concentration (% w/w) of each component.

5. Rajeev Jain*, Rajeev Kumar Yadav. Voltammetric behavior of sedative drug midazolam at glassy carbon electrode in solubilized systems.

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2012,2(2):123-129.

Figure 5 (A) Differential pulse voltammograms of midazolam at various concentrations (i) 150 μg/mL, (ii) 300 μg/mL, (iii) 450 μg/mL, (iv) 600 μg/mL, (v) 750 μg/mL and (vi) 900 μg/mL. (B) Inset picture represents linearity curve of peak 1 at different concentrations. (C) Inset picture represents linearity curve of peak 2 at different concentrations. (D) Inset picture represents linearity curve of peak 3 at different concentrations.

6. Hua-Jin Zeng, Ran Yang, Bing Liu, Li-Fang Lei, Jian-Jun Li, Ling-Bo Qu*. Simple and sensitive determination of sparfl oxacin in pharmaceuticals and biological samples by immunoassay.

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2012,2(3):214-219.