About the Journal

The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Physiology and Pharmacology. The journal is owned by Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI) and published by the Scientific Scholar.

Aims & Scope

The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) is the official journal of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI). The policies of the IJPP have been drawn from its own experience as well as from International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org) and World Association of Medical Editors (www.wame.org).

Audience

Our audience includes all the practitioners from the fields of Physiology and Pharmacology.

Review Process

The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.

In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises a panel of experts in Physiology and Pharmacology from various countries to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.

Facts About the Journal

The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) is a peer-reviewed journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is quarterly.

Benefits

A manuscript published in the Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees. The author retains the copyright of the manuscript and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is indexed with or included in the following:
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOPUS, Web of Science Group (Biological Abstracts | BIOSIS Previews)

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, ReadCube, CrossRef, Portico

Scopus CiteScore 2023 (as per SJR 2024): 0.5

Journal Ethics

The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) is committed to meeting and upholding ethical guidelines at all stages of the publication process. We follow the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines Section.

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref ( https://crossref.org).

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

The Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (IJPP) is a quarterly publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.

The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. Journal also offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.

Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.