''Physiological Reports'' is a peer-reviewed open access online only scientific journal covering original research in all areas of

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. It is published by

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on behalf of

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and the

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. The journal was established in 2013.

Susan Wray Susan C. Wray is professor of cellular and molecular physiology at the University of Liverpool. She also serves as the President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) and is president of the Federation of European Physiolog ...

(

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

) was the first

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until 2017 . As well as receiving direct submissions, the journal has manuscripts "cascaded" to it from the journals of its owner societies (''

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'', '' Experimental Physiology'', and ''

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''). Since 2015 it has also received papers cascaded by '' Acta Physiologica'', a publication of the Scandinavian Physiological Society. The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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