International Physiology Journal
About the International Physiology Journal
The International Physiology Journal publishes peer-reviewed research on how biological function is produced, regulated and maintained. Its subject is physiology at every level of organization — from transport and signaling across a single membrane to the response of an intact organism — together with the relationships that connect one level to the next.
No single level is the journal’s center of gravity. A membrane conductance, a perfusion measurement, a control loop between two organ systems and a whole-body response to an environmental load are all physiology, and all are within remit.
ISSN 2578-8590 · Published by Open Access Pub · Open access under CC BY 4.0
The journal’s perspective
Function is only visible at some level of organization
Physiology is the study of function, and a finding about function always belongs to a scale: a membrane, a tissue, an organ system, an animal. The journal is organized around that fact, and takes questions at each level on their own terms.
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Membrane and cell
At the smallest scale the interest is mechanism: transport, excitability, signal transduction and the energetics that make cellular work possible. Studies here establish what a cell or a membrane does under stated conditions, and that description is the ground everything above it rests on.
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Tissue and microcirculation
Between cell and organ lies the tissue environment: perfusion, the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide, and the local conditions under which cells do their work. This is often where a mechanism first meets a measurable physiological consequence.
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Organ systems
Cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, endocrine, metabolic, neural and muscular function are each studied in their own right, and so are the control loops that couple one system to another. Regulation between systems is treated as a subject, not as a complication.
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Integrated organism
At the largest scale physiology is the behavior of an intact animal or person: under load, across development, in a changed environment, in disease. Comparative and environmental work belongs here alongside human studies, and so do the methods that make such measurement possible.
Research that moves deliberately between these levels is welcome, and so is work that stays within one of them and does it well. The journal’s published record illustrates this range; it does not set its boundary.
Readership
Who the journal is for
- Experimental physiologists working at the bench, in the laboratory or in the field
- Integrative and systems physiologists concerned with regulation across organs
- Comparative and environmental physiologists, in human and animal work alike
- Researchers developing, validating or critiquing physiological measurement and methods
- Graduate researchers and teachers who need open, citable primary literature
The journal welcomes substantive scholarship that advances the understanding, measurement or interpretation of physiological function at any level of organization. A contribution may rest on new experimental evidence, on the refinement or validation of a method, or on the reinterpretation of existing physiological findings.
Articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, and authors retain copyright.
Article DOIs use the publisher prefix 10.14302.
Editorial responsibility
What the journal undertakes to do with a manuscript
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Reviewers are asked to assess whether the physiological claim is supported by the conditions and measurements reported, and editors are responsible for holding a decision to that standard.
Editorial decisions are independent of fees, services, membership, and editorial or reviewer roles.
Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions; those manuscripts are handled independently.
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Where to go from here
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Read the published research
International Physiology Journal
The journal’s issues and article record.
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Read the full remit
Aims and Scope
The complete statement of what the journal considers.
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Primary route: ManuscriptZone
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Submit a manuscript through the editorial system.
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Alternative route: Simple manuscript submission form
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A short form that selects this journal.
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Assisted route: Editorial email
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Questions about scope or workflow before submission.
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
International Physiology Journal
ISSN 2578-8590 · Published by Open Access Pub · Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license · Article DOIs use the publisher prefix 10.14302.