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The Strength of Physiological Reports and Peer Review

To be a founding Editor‐in‐Chief of a journal is always going to be a ride into the unknown, but taking on this role for Physiological Reports has been one of the most rewarding activities I have undertaken in my professional life.

When I was appointed, the heavy lifting had already been done by the staff of the two societies that own the journal, The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society, and our publisher Wiley, leaving me the pleasant task of appointing an editorial team and board, developing and directing editorial policy, and then in April 2013 hoisting a flag up and letting the physiological world know we were open for business.

I am immensely proud of what Physiological Reports and the team have achieved in the intervening years. We have published almost 1700 papers so far and attracted authors from 60 countries. We have been joined by the Scandinavian Physiological Society. We do not use perceived impact as a bar to acceptance and so have covered all areas of physiology. Take a look at the papers we have published, and I think like me you will have your belief in the value …