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A partnership between the Physiological Society and Elsevier will focus on rapidly developing research areas.
Louise Curtis: “These new journals will disseminate important research and promote innovation in nutritional physiology and precision medicine. This will enable us to make significant advances in our understanding of human health and improve lives.”
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The Physiological Society (TPS), a professional scientific society, and Elsevier, a research publishing and information analytics company, have announced a partnership to advance the physiological sciences. TPS and Elsevier plan to launch two new journals in 2025 that will focus on the rapidly developing fields of nutritional physiology and precision medicine. These fields are expected to grow significantly, and the partners say the new journals will put them at the forefront of these disciplines.
Nutritional physiology studies how nutrients from food interact with the body at the cellular and physiological level. TPS says it has long supported the nutrition community through its journals and conferences, and that support will expand even further with the upcoming launch of the Journal of Nutritional Physiology.
Precision medicine, a rapidly evolving field, enables personalized treatments that lead to better outcomes and fewer side effects by targeting individual-specific genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. The Journal of Precision Medicine: Health and Disease will cover a wide range of topics at the interface between physiology and personalized medicine.
Building on the reputation of both organizations, the two new journals will become platforms for researchers to share their research and insights. Elsevier says it has been supporting the research and healthcare community to advance science and improve health outcomes for more than 140 years. TPS has a long publishing history that includes The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology, as well as Physiological Reports, published in collaboration with the American Physiological Society.
TPS and Elsevier say they will soon begin searching for the first editors-in-chief for both journals. They plan to start accepting applications this fall, with the first articles to be published in early 2025.
Announcing the partnership, TPS President Professor David Attwell said: “This partnership marks an exciting new chapter for the Physiological Society. We have been leaders in the life sciences for almost 150 years and these new journals in nutritional physiology and precision medicine demonstrate our continued leadership in groundbreaking areas of the physiological sciences.
“These new journals will enhance the Physiological Society’s existing portfolio of world-class publications that are rigorously peer-reviewed. As these new journals will demonstrate, physiology is at the heart of innovative developments that are revolutionising our understanding of the human body and leading to improved health outcomes and population health.
Louise Curtis, Senior Vice President of Life and Social Sciences at Elsevier, added: “We are delighted to announce this new partnership with the Physiological Society. These new journals will disseminate important research and promote innovation in nutritional physiology and precision medicine. They will lead to significant advances in understanding human health and improving lives, which is central to both the Physiological Society’s and Elsevier’s mission.”
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