Journal of Smooth Muscle Research

The Journal of Smooth Muscle Research is an open access online journal which publishes original research papers and reviews concerned with smooth muscle tissues and organs. The Journal publishes papers that describe methods and protocols of experimental and clinical studies that will help scientists push their inquiries of smooth muscle research forward. Papers dealing with relevant cells and tissues with smooth muscles are also welcome. Researches at any levels from the molecular studies to the clinical trials are all considered. The Journal welcomes submitted research papers from all over the world.

All articles are distributed under the terms of the latest version of CC BY-NC defined by the Creative Commons Attribution License, which is allowing others to download the material and share it (either whole or parts of it) with others without any permission as long as they credit the original source and indicate if modifications were made, but they can't use the material commercially. The original source should also be included in the reference list, if any. For commercial use of a whole paper, contact Japan Academic Association For Copyright Clearance. For commercial use of the part of a paper, contact the Press Office.

The Journal of Smooth Muscle Research do not impose submission or page charges including color pages.

The Journal of Smooth Muscle Research is indexed for MEDLINE (PubMed). The papers are archived in both J-STAGE and PMC.

Rating of the Journal of Smooth Muscle Research

The Journal of Smooth Muscle Research has been evaluated by several indexes. Unfortunately it has no Impact Factor (IF) right now.

Elsevier provides Journal Metrics developed from the information contained in their Scopus database. Their rating (CiteScore) of the Journal of Smooth Muscle Research is shown on this page.

Using the same database, two other indicators have been developed. One is Scimago Journal & Country Rank. Their rating of the Journal of Smooth Muscle Research is shown on this page.

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What's new

Jul 29, 2022: The editor-in-chief was replaced by Katsuya HIRANO from Yoshimichi YAMAMOTO.
Nov 12, 2021: "Instructions for authors" has been updated. In "Reference list", list the first six authors, followed by et al.
Aug 26, 2021: "Instructions for authors" has been updated. Now running titles up to 80 characters are acceptable.
Nov 15, 2019: The Open Journal System has been introduced.
Feb 16, 2017: The Journal of Smooth Muscle Research has fully participated in PMC.
Aug 24, 2016: Rule for "Reuse of the contents" has been changed from CC BY-NC-ND to CC BY-NC. This applies not only to future papers but also to the previous papers already published.