Data regarding the research paper productivity of Japanese pharmacy schools in 2017

Since the early 2000s, it has often been noted that academic publications from Japan have stagnated. However, in recent years, no study has focused on academic productivity specific to Japanese pharmacy schools . Therefore, we present the data regarding the number of published papers (Table 1) and biomedical field publications per faculty member (production coefficients,Table 2) in the all pharmacy faculties in Japan in 2017 (74 schools).
Publications were extracted from the PubMed database. Faculty members were defined as professors, associate professors, and lecturers (3313 in all). The figures are presented separately for public and private universities. In addition, the comparison of pharmacy schools in private universities was divided into the schools established after 2003 and schools established before that date.