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INNOSC Theranostics and
Pharmacological Sciences Bibliometric skills of pharma postgraduates

4.7. Limitations using a detailed assessment system. Institutions should

This framework has certain natural limitations. From a carry out major and minor revisions to this framework to
top-level design perspective, this framework is largely promote the reform of their postgraduate pharmaceutical
based on the teaching and research experience of the programs. This framework could have great significance
authors and their team; however, due to limited capacity for postgraduate education through its continuous
and time, it was not possible to ensure the desirability of optimization using regular communication and real-
the established teaching and research experience. Thus, time attention to developments in the domestic and
as there may be fallacies, the feasibility of the framework international pharmaceutical industries. The continuous
should be further validated. optimization and promotion of the framework will not
only solve the problems of top-level design implementation
From a practical implementation perspective, although and execution but also improve on China’s current
this framework has theoretical basis and is guided by postgraduate pharmaceutical education system by
experience, it has not been piloted in a graduate pharmacy enhancing the independent scientific research abilities of
student population; therefore, its implementation requires postgraduate pharmaceutical students, thus promoting the
further testing. The developed framework is expected to overall development of China’s pharmaceutical industry.
provide a useful reference for the reform of postgraduate
pharmaceutical education in China. We plan to conduct an Based on the findings, this study makes the following
empirical study to test its efficacy and outcome. suggestions. First, it is necessary to incorporate professional
bibliometrics training into the compulsory or elective
The final limitation is in scope of application. The courses of postgraduate students and combine theory
postgraduate training needs and ideas considered in with practice by studying real-world cases. Second, such
designing this framework are mainly pertinent to China training should be conducted by experts in bibliometrics,
(and countries or regions with similar national conditions, and advanced database resources and econometric tools
especially some developing countries ) and may not be should be introduced to facilitate students’ econometrics
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applicable to other countries or regions with different learning and practice. Finally, promotional tools should
national conditions. Therefore, the potential of using the be used to increase students’ awareness about and interest
BAC framework in postgraduate pharmaceutical education in bibliometrics. Econometrics competitions or specific
in these other countries or regions should be assessed. practical projects can also be conducted to strengthen
Despite these limitations, this framework still has students’ practical skills.
significance for the reform and improvement of postgraduate
pharmaceutical education. Through continuous real-world Acknowledgments
framework refinement, the potential problems in the top- None.
level design and practical implementation can gradually
be resolved. Furthermore, if there is a need to extend the Funding
framework to other countries and regions, the authors are The authors would like to thank the financial support
eager to collaborate with interested institutions in those from Major Funding of the National Natural Science
countries or regions. The core ideas of this framework can Foundation of China (Grant No. 82330112) and
even help to establish the current situation of postgraduate Guangdong Universities Keynote Regions Special Funded
pharmaceutical education in those countries or regions. Project (Grant No. 2022ZDZX2002).
Subsequently, the teaching and research experience from
foreign institutions can be incorporated and an amended Conflict of interest
or new framework can be proposed.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
5. Conclusion Author contributions
Nowadays, there are three levels of demand for independent
research skills in the pharmaceutical enterprise: these Conceptualization: Zhengwei Huang
demands are from societies, from governments, and Writing – original draft: Rui Luo, Xiye Wang, Jiayue Huang
from institutions. This article proposed the integration of Writing – review & editing: Chuanbin Wu, Xin Pan,
bibliometrics into Chinese postgraduate pharmaceutical Xuejuan Zhang
program to establish a new framework as a theoretical Ethics approval and consent to participate
guide for education reform. The BAC framework was
designed by performing three levels of classification Not applicable.

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