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| Discipline | Physiology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Kim Barrett |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1878–present |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell on behalf ofThe Physiological Society |
| Frequency | Semi-monthly |
| Hybrid anddelayed, after 1 year | |
| 5.5 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Physiol. (Lond.) |
| NLM | J Physiol |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | JPHYA7 |
| ISSN | 0022-3751 (print) 1469-7793 (web) |
| LCCN | 49034373 |
| OCLC no. | 1754742 |
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The Journal of Physiology is a semi-monthlypeer-reviewedscientific journal that was established in 1878 and is published byWiley-Blackwell on behalf ofThe Physiological Society. It covers research on all aspects ofphysiology, with an emphasis onhuman andmammalian physiology, including work at the molecular level, at the level of the cell membrane, single cells, tissues or organs, and systems physiology. The full archive back to 1878 up to issues published 12 months from the current date is freely available online. Theeditor-in-chief isKim Barrett (University of California, Davis). According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022impact factor of 5.5.[1]
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The journal was first published in 1878 and edited byMichael Foster. In 1893–1894 Foster's colleagueJohn Newport Langley took over as editor. Langley remained the proprietor and editor until his death in 1925, when The Physiological Society bought the journal from his widow.Charles Scott Sherrington was appointed the first chairman of theeditorial board in 1926. In 2003 The Physiological Society moved publishing to Blackwell, nowWiley-Blackwell.
The following persons are or have been chairman of the editorial board (named editor-in-chief since 2005):