Former names
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Pflüger's Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Tiere; Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere |
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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Pflugers Arch., EJP |
Discipline | Physiology |
Language | English (formerly German) |
Edited by | Bernd Nilius |
Publication details | |
Publisher |
Springer (Germany)
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Publication history
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Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere (1868–1910); Pflüger's Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Tiere (1910–1968); Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology (1968–present) |
Frequency | 12 per year |
By author payment | |
4.101 | |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
0031-6768 (print) 1432-2013 (web) |
Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of physiology. A continuation of a journal founded in 1868 by the German physiologist, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger, Pflügers Archiv is the oldest physiological journal. Pflügers Archiv is currently published by Springer, with 11 issues per year.
The journal publishes molecular and cellular studies across the physiological sciences; topics include the physiology of the heart, muscle and sensory systems, transport physiology, neuroscience, signalling, ion channels and receptors. It aims to publish "innovative work that focuses on mechanistic insight into basic physiological functions".
Pflügers Archiv is the oldest physiological journal. It was founded in 1868 by the German physiologist, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger, under the title Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere. It was published in German. The first issue of the journal contains 26 articles, with contributors including Hermann Rudolph Aubert, Julius Bernstein, Johann Nepomuk Czermak, Franciscus Donders, Sigmund Exner, Siegmund Mayer, Peter Ludvig Panum, William Thierry Preyer, Salomon Stricker, Hermann von Helmholtz, Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn and Nathan Zuntz. It includes the earliest accurate description of the action potential, by Julius Bernstein, using an apparatus called a "differential rheotome".