About the Journal

Facts

Speciality Chief Editor: Nancy Beckage, University of California, USA

Indexed in: DOAJ, CrossRef, Google Scholar, PubMed Central coming soon

Mission Statement

Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology is a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Physiology.

Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology is a Specialty Section of the Frontiers in Physiology series that focuses on the physiology of invertebrate organisms ranging from invertebrate molecular biology to environmental physiology and evolution. Papers on model systems such as Drosophila and C. elegans are encouraged.

The journal focus spans a broad topic range from the molecular mechanisms of physiological function and molecular mediators of signaling pathways to whole organism studies in the context of their environment. Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology welcomes contributions focusing on genomics, gene regulation, protein expression and proteomics, and molecular mechanisms of physiological function. Reaction to environmental stress from temperature fluctuations and global climate change, humidity, pollution and other stressors are also subjects of interest.

Examples of topic areas include:

- endocrine and neuroendocrine systems
- developmental biology, regulation, and stem cells
- genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
- ion transport and excretion
- membrane physiology and function
- biomechanics, locomotion and flight
- acoustic and other mechanisms of communication
- signaling pathways
- immunity
- systems integration
- feeding and nutrition
- mating and reproduction
- aging and senescence
- host-parasite and host-pathogen interactions
- evolution of physiological processes
- comparative physiology

Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology welcomes the following tier 1 article types: Book Review, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review and Specialty Grand Challenge.

All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Section.

All articles published in Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology will be subjected to the Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Physiology to write a prestigious Frontiers Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 4-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Physiology.

Open Access Statement

Frontiers’ philosophy is that all research is for the benefit of humankind. Research is the product of an investment by society and therefore its fruits should be returned to all people without borders or discrimination, serving society universally and in a transparent fashion.

That is why Frontiers provides online free and open access to all of its research publications. For more information on open access click here.

Copyright Statement

Under the Frontiers Conditions for Website Use and the Frontiers General Conditions for Authors, authors of articles published in Frontiers journals retain copyright on their articles, except for any third-party images and other materials added by Frontiers, which are subject to copyright of their respective owners. Authors are therefore free to disseminate and re-publish their articles, subject to any requirements of third-party copyright owners and subject to the original publication being fully cited. Visitors may also download and forward articles subject to the citation requirements and subject to any fees Frontiers may charge for downloading licenses. The ability to copy, download, forward or otherwise distribute any materials is always subject to any copyright notices displayed. Copyright notices must be displayed prominently and may not be obliterated, deleted or hidden, totally or partially. A charge may be made for some facilities (such as downloading of e-magazines), where stated.

Quality

Each Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Frontiers is well aware of the potential impact of published research both on future research and on society and, hence, does not support superficial review, light review or no-review publishing models. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public - and shape society. Therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews, established in the high standards of the Frontiers Review System. Furthermore, only the top certified research, evaluated through the democratic Frontiers Evaluation System, is disseminated to increasingly wider communities as it gradually climbs the tiers of the Frontiers Tiering System from specialized expert readership towards public understanding.

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