Editors play a leadership role in shaping the direction of physiology research. Service as an editor demonstrates expertise and contributes to professional visibility.

• Recognition certificates for editorial contributions
• Opportunities to shape journal priorities and special issues
• Professional visibility within the physiology community
• Networking with peers across disciplines

Editorial service strengthens critical evaluation skills and provides insight into emerging physiology methods and reporting standards.

The editorial office provides guidelines, templates, and administrative support to streamline editorial work.

• Clarify the primary physiological endpoints and measurement units used.
• Report equipment calibration and validation steps for key instruments.
• Describe participant inclusion and exclusion criteria when human data are involved.
• Provide clear definitions for derived indices or composite scores.
• Note the timing of physiological measurements relative to interventions.
• Summarize how confounders such as medications or diet were controlled.
• State data availability and any restrictions on access.
• Highlight ethical approvals and consent procedures for human or animal studies.
• Describe quality checks for signal processing and artifact removal.
• Encourage clear reporting of baseline and post-intervention comparisons.
• Provide reviewer guidance on evaluating methodological rigor and reproducibility.
• Note best practices for assessing physiological variability and sample size.
• Encourage authors to report adverse events when relevant.
• Clarify how editors can request additional reviews for interdisciplinary work.
• Remind reviewers to flag unclear protocols or missing methodological details.
• Encourage concise summaries of key strengths and limitations for author guidance.
• Provide guidance on evaluating clinical relevance without overstating conclusions.
• Encourage authors to report instrument accuracy limits and measurement uncertainty.
• Remind reviewers to assess whether normalization approaches are appropriate for the data.
• Note best practices for handling repeated measures or longitudinal physiology datasets.
• Suggest reporting of power calculations or effect size justification.
• Encourage transparency on protocol deviations or missing data handling.
• Highlight the importance of reporting baseline values alongside intervention effects.

IPJ is committed to rigorous, transparent publishing in physiology research. We emphasize reproducible methods, clear reporting of experimental protocols, and ethical compliance across all article types.

The editorial office supports authors, editors, and reviewers with clear guidance and responsive communication. For questions about scope or workflow, contact [email protected].

We encourage continuous improvement in reporting practices and share updates that help the community maintain high standards in human and comparative physiology.