Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Ser. B, Physical and Biological Sciences
About this journal
The Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (PJA-B) was founded in 1912 as the Proceedings of the Imperial Academy by the Imperial Academy of Japan (now the Japan Academy). The journal was split into the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A and Series B in 1977. PJA Series B publishes reviews and research articles in broad fields of natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth and planetary sciences, biology, engineering, agricultural sciences, medical and pharmaceutical sciences.*) 2024 Journal Impact Factor is 4.6.
*) For papers in mathematics, please refer to the Notice to Authors of the PJA Series A.
ONLINE ISSN : 1349-2896
PRINT ISSN : 0386-2208
Features of PJA-B
The PJA-B publishes both reviews and research articles. PJA-B is indexed in PubMed, PMC, the Science Citation Index, SCOPUS, and other databases.
Speedy publication
Although submitted manuscripts are subjected to rigorous editorial evaluation by two referees, the first editorial decision is usually reached within a month after submission and manuscripts accepted in the final form are published within a two-month period. Manuscripts that have been accepted may be made available as Advanced Online Publications before their formal publication. Thus, the PJA-B is suitable for rapid publication when desired for any reason. Manuscripts can be submitted via the online submission system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pjab
Online Publication
PJA-B is freely accessible online through J-STAGE: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pjab
Copyright and Open Access
Authors retain the copyright to their work and grant the Japan Academy a non-exclusive license to publish, including depositing articles in online services such as the J-STAGE or PubMed Central. All articles are published as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 International (CC BY-NC) license by default (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). This license permits users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as proper attribution is given to the author. Authors can choose another Creative Commons license if necessary. Authors retain the freedom to use their articles or supporting data, incorporating figures into their future works or depositing them in the repository of their institution or preprint servers.
The PJA-B have transitioned to open access starting with Vol. 98 No. 1, published on January 11, 2022. Articles before Vol. 97 No. 10 are also available for free on J-STAGE. The copyright of articles before Vol. 97 No. 10 belongs to the Japan Academy, but the authors are free to use them for their own work. If you are not the author and would like to reuse the material, please contact the editorial office of Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Ser. B.
* A request concerning transfer of copyrights of previously published articles.
Fee
No manuscript handling fee or page charges are levied.
Subscription Agent
Although PJA-B is an online journal, a print edition is also available through on-demand printing for those who wish to subscribe. The subscription agents are as follows:
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