About the Journal

Field Editor-In-Chief: Janet R Keast, University of Sydney, Australia
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Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience is a specialty section devoted to advancing our understanding of the development, function and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. We wish to promote the use of diverse approaches to solve the most important neurobiological and clinical problems in the area and to provide a forum to integrate the latest research outcomes. We encourage submissions that address key questions in basic and clinical aspects of autonomic regulation and its development. These include research focused on specific regional aspects of body function, such as neuronal control of cardiovascular, digestive, genitourinary or respiratory function, and issues that impact more broadly on the body’s activities, such as neuronal regulation of metabolism and temperature. Studies on relevant aspects of brainstem, hypothalamic and limbic function, emotional and motivational aspects of autonomic regulation are also encouraged. We welcome molecular, cellular and genetic analyses, investigations of tissue, organ and system function using anatomical, physiological and pharmacological methods, and studies of complex behaviors and clinical problems resulting from autonomic dysfunction. Submissions that address communication between the autonomic system and other regulatory systems are also strongly encouraged, including interactions with visceral sensation and pain, the immune system and inflammation, and neuroendocrine regulation.

Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience welcomes the following tier 1 article types: original research articles, clinical case studies, review articles, hypothesis and theory articles, methods articles, commentaries, perspective articles, opinion articles, book reviews and conference proceedings.

All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the specialty section.

All articles published in Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience 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 editor-in-chief 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 3-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.

Frontiers’ philosophy is that all research is for the benefit of mankind. It is enabled by society and should be returned to all people without borders or discrimination. That is why Frontiers provides open and free access to all of its publications. For more information on the open access movement click here.

Under the Frontiers terms and conditions you retain the copyright of your work. This means that you may reproduce copies of your articles in any way you choose and freely disseminate these as reprints, as long as the original publication is fully cited. For instance, your published article can be posted on your personal or institutional homepage, e-mailed to friends and colleagues, printed, archived in a collection, distributed on CD-ROM, quoted in the press, translated and furthermore sent to as many people and as often as you wish.

Each Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, due to true collaborative interactions between authors and the highest quality reviewers. Frontiers recognizes the immense importance of the potential impact of published research on future research and society and, hence, does not support superficial review, light review or no review publishing models. Research knowledge must be validated by peers before entering the stream of knowledge that will eventually reach the public and shape society. Therefore, Frontiers supports the highest quality reviews and operates according to the novel Frontiers academic model that applies a rigorous but unbiased Frontiers review system, a separated, online, automated and global Frontiers evaluation system and Frontiers distillation system, as well as the Frontiers recognition system to reward the most outstanding research selected by the entire community.