Susan Wray, Liverpool, UK Named Editor-in-Chief and Thomas Kleyman, Pittsburgh, USA, Named Deputy Editor-in-Chief
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., The Physiological Society (TPS), and The
American Physiological Society (APS) announced today their partnership
to publish the new open access peer-reviewed journal, Physiological
Reports, which will launch early next year.
Physiological Reports will offer peer-reviewed research across
all areas of basic, translational and clinical physiology and allied
disciplines for physiologists, neuroscientists, biophysicists and
clinicians. The journal will serve as the first fully open access
online-only journal for The American Physiological Society and The
Physiological Society, and joins their combined prestigious portfolio of
peer-reviewed print and online subscription-based scientific journals,
such as the American
Journal of Physiology, The
Journal of Physiology, and Experimental
Physiology.
Susan
Wray, Ph.D., University of Liverpool, UK, is a Professor and former
Head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Liverpool, and
is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on
the physiology of smooth muscle and how it contracts. She has served in
various roles on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of
Physiologyand Experimental Physiology. Thomas
Kleyman, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, USA, is Professor and
Chief, Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh. His
research has been devoted to renal physiology. Dr. Kleyman has served as
Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology - Renal
Physiology for the last five years.
Philip Wright, Chief Executive of The Physiological Society said, “This
represents a landmark for The Physiological Society launching its first
new journal in over 100 years and we are delighted to be doing this in
partnership with The American Physiological Society. Most importantly
this is an OA journal that will be run by two of the world’s leading
physiological societies for its members and for physiologists around the
world.”
Martin Frank, Executive Director of The American Physiological Society,
said, “The time was right for both The American Physiological Society
and The Physiological Society to create an open access journal to meet
the evolving needs of our joint constituencies. It is very gratifying to
know that both Societies are able to join together to create this
journal, which will serve the needs of the international community of
physiologists.”
Jackie Jones, Publisher for Physiological Reports, Wiley,
added, “We are very enthusiastic about this new venture with The
Physiological Society and The American Physiological Society. We are
looking forward to extending our existing relationships with both
societies by developing Physiological Reports into a
successful, high quality journal.”
The journal will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution
(CC-BY) License enabling authors to be fully compliant with open access
requirements of funding organizations. All articles will be published as
fully open access onWiley
Online Library and deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon
publication.
A publication fee will be payable by authors on acceptance of their
articles. The first 100 papers accepted for publication will be
published free of charge. Authors affiliated with, or funded by, an
organization that has a Wiley
Open Access Accountcan publish without directly paying any
publication charges.
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About The American Physiological Society
The American Physiological Society is a non-profit organization devoted
to fostering education, scientific research, and dissemination of
information in the physiological sciences. The Society, founded in 1887,
has more than 11,000 members, most of whom have doctoral degrees in
physiology and/or medicine, or other health professions. The Society
publishes 13 peer-reviewed journals which can be viewed online at http://www.the-aps.org/mm/Publications/Journals.
About The Physiological Society
The Physiological Society brings together over 3000 scientists from over
60 countries. Since its foundation in 1876, its Members have made
significant contributions to our knowledge of biological systems and the
treatment of disease. The Society promotes physiology and supports those
working in the field by organising world-class scientific meetings,
offering grants for research, collaboration and international travel,
and by publishing the latest developments in its two leading scientific
journals,The Journal of Physiology and Experimental
Physiology. For more information please visit http://www.physoc.org.
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