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- Announcement of Best Reviewer Award 2021.
What's new
[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.
[Featured Review]
Assessment of autonomic function by long-term heart rate variability: beyond the classical framework of LF and HF measurements
Vol. 40 Article number: 21 (2021)
Junichiro Hayano & Emi Yuda
In the assessment of autonomic function by HRV), the framework that the power of high-frequency component or its surrogate indices reflects parasympathetic activity, while the power of low-frequency component or LF/HF reflects sympathetic activity has been used as the theoretical basis for the interpretation of HRV. In this review, authors discussed the limitations of this classical framework and present studies that extracted autonomic function indicators and other useful biomedical information from long-term HRV using novel approaches beyond the classical framework. Those methods include non-Gaussianity index, HRV sleep index, heart rate turbulence, and the frequency and amplitude of cyclic variation of heart rate.
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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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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Age-related changes in the activation timing of postural muscles to the prime mover muscle for bilateral arm flexion during standing
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Weight over-reporting is associated with low muscle mass among community-dwelling Japanese adults aged 40 years and older: a cross sectional study
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Studies on human body composition in Russia: past and present
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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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Prioritizing sleep for healthy work schedules
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
203,522 Downloads
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