- Check out new Thematic Series 'Environmental changes on human infectious diseases'.
- Announcement of Best Reviewer Award 2021.
What's new
[Featured Review]
Development of the circadian system in early life: maternal and environmental factors
Vol. 40 Article number: 22 (2022)
Sachi D. Wong, Kenneth P. Wright Jr, Robert L. Spencer, Céline Vetter, Laurel M. Hicks, Oskar G. Jenni & Monique K. LeBourgeois
In humans, an adaptable internal biological system generates circadian rhythms that maintain synchronicity of behavior and physiology with the changing demands of the 24-h environment. Development of the circadian system begins in utero and continues throughout the first few years of life. This review describes the very early developmental stages of the clock and common circadian misalignment scenarios that make the developing circadian system more susceptible to conflicting time cues and temporal disorder between the maternal, fetal, infant, and peripheral clocks.
[Featured Review]
Bergmann’s rule is a “just-so” story of human body size
Vol. 41, Article number: 15 (2022)
Barry Bogin, Michael Hermanussen & Christiane Scheffler
Authors claim that Bergmann’s rule about animal size and shape should be relegated to teaching and scholarship about the history of science. That “rule” is no longer acceptable science and has nothing to tell us about physiological anthropology.
Best Reviewer Award
Journal of Physiological Anthropology Best Reviewer Award 2021 is awarded to:
・ Hiromitsu Kobayashi (Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University, Japan)
・ Kazuhiko Arima (Nagasaki University, Japan)
For more information, please visit the award page.
Aims & Scope
Journal of Physiological Anthropology (JPA) is the official journal of the Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology. JPA is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on the physiological functions of modern mankind, with an emphasis on the physical and bio-cultural effects on human adaptability to the current environment.
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Articles
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Effects of exercise habituation and aging on the intersegmental coordination of lower limbs during walking with sinusoidal speed change
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Predicting handgrip power of young adult population among major ethnic groups of Sabah: a multivariate analysis
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Development of the circadian system in early life: maternal and environmental factors
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Body weight at 1.5- and 3-year health checks and body fat at 14 years of age: a population-based retrospective cohort study using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
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Fermented foods, microbiota, and mental health: ancient practice meets nutritional psychiatry
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Effects of thermal environment on sleep and circadian rhythm
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Daily rhythms of the sleep-wake cycle
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Effects of L-theanine or caffeine intake on changes in blood pressure under physical and psychological stresses
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Plasmodium—a brief introduction to the parasites causing human malaria and their basic biology
Article Collections
Journal of Physiological Anthropology publishes special issues and collection of papers on the select topics of recent interest within the scope of the journal. See the list of article collections and special issues here.
Legacy content
Articles published in Journal of Physiological Anthropology since 1996 (volume 15) are open access and fully accessible from the following link.
Journal of Physiological Anthropology is an official Journal of the Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology (JSPA)
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
49 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
34 days to first decision for all manuscripts
135 days from submission to acceptance
20 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
2.867 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.62 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.069 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.724 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
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