Physiological Reviews
Last updated ISSN 0031-9333
Physiological Reviews is published by American Physiological Society in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Physiological Reviews concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ion channel regulation and function
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Key facts
| Publisher | American Physiological Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0031-9333, 1522-1210 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,704 |
| Publishing since | 1921 |
| Journal website | physrev.physiology.org/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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