Editorial policies
Editorial Policies
These policies set out how the journal evaluates manuscripts, what it requires of authors, editors and reviewers, and how it responds when the published record needs correction.
They apply to every submission. Where publisher-wide wording governs, that wording is reproduced here exactly rather than summarized.
ISSN 2578-8590 · Published by Open Access Pub · Open access under CC BY 4.0
Assessment
How a decision is reached
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.
Scope is assessed against the journal’s Aims and Scope. A manuscript is held to the claims it makes: the evidence required for a causal, predictive or clinical claim is not required of a descriptive, methodological or comparative one.
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.
When double-blind review is requested, editors must ensure that author-identifying information is not shared with reviewers.
Research integrity
Requirements that apply to every submission
- Authorship
Each listed author must have contributed substantively to the work and must approve the submitted version. Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria are acknowledged rather than listed as authors.
- Originality
Manuscripts must be original, must not be under consideration elsewhere, and must disclose any prior publication of the data, including preprints and conference proceedings.
- Competing interests
Authors, editors and reviewers disclose financial and non-financial interests that a reader could reasonably consider relevant to the work.
- Data availability
Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
- Human and animal research
Studies involving human participants or animals must report the approving body and the consent or welfare procedures followed, as applicable to the work.
- Clinical trial registration
Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
- Artificial intelligence
Any use of AI tools in preparing a manuscript must be disclosed. AI systems are not authors and cannot take responsibility for the work.
The published record
Corrections, retractions and concerns
The journal corrects the record when an error affects the interpretation of a published article, and retracts an article when its findings are no longer reliable. Corrections and retractions are published as citable notices, linked to the original article, which remains available.
Concerns about a published article should be raised with the editorial office in writing, with enough detail for the matter to be assessed. Authors are given the opportunity to respond before any notice is issued.
Withdrawal terms are set out in full on the Article Processing Charges page.
Guidance for the people who carry out assessment is on the For Editors and For Reviewers pages.
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.
Digital preservation
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish. Read our preservation policy.