Welcome Address to the Members of the Comparative Section
Dear Members of the Comparative Section of the American Physiological
Society,
It is a great pleasure to introduce you to many new features and
developments of the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory,
Integrative and Comparative Physiology. As you have certainly noticed,
there have been a number of changes since the new editors were assigned one
year ago. It is a great honor to serve for this journal, which is unique
since it covers a very large scope of physiological research. This was
identified as a great strength of the journal, however, particular care
needed to be taken to facilitate the rapid identification of papers in the
particular fields. Since over 35 articles appeared per month, not every
reader leafed through the entire journal contents to find one of the few
articles of his main fields of interest. Thus, the contributions no longer
appear under the three subtitles “Regulatory, Integrative or Comparative
Physiology”, but are sorted according to their functional aspects. As
indicated by the online reading statistics, this measure has been very
successful by significantly increasing the number of downloaded articles per
month.
The “In Focus” series of papers are rated regularly among the five most
read articles per issue. These brief review like editorials outline special
fields, which have gathered particularly many recent manuscripts. Dr.
Pritchard, who takes care of the majority of papers from your section, has
written the In Focus of the coming month on “Comparative Models and
Biological Stress”.
During the last few years, roughly 10% of the published articles were
from the comparative field. Currently we are receiving a considerably larger
amount of your manuscripts, they sum up to around 20% of all submissions. In
response to this promising development, we are currently soliciting more
editorial board members from the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section. Their
number has increased by 50% during the latest 12 months and will continue to
rise further.
We very much hope to live up to the faith you have put into our journal
and hope that you will continue to maintain or even enhance the reputation
of the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and
Comparative Physiology by continuously submitting your very best work.
With my very best regards,
Pontus B. Persson, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
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