Journal of Anatomy
Published on behalf of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Edited by:
Gillian Morriss-Kay
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 4/17 Anatomy & Morphology
Impact Factor: 2.063
Journal of Anatomy publishes original papers, invited review articles and book reviews. Its main focus is on contributions to understanding development, evolution and function through a broad range of anatomical approaches. Articles covering bioinformatics and other topics that clarify or provide tools for functional anatomical understanding will also be sympathetically considered. Priority will be given to experimental studies, to contributions based on molecular and cell biology, and on the application of modern functional imaging techniques. Studies that are essentially descriptive anatomy will only be published if the Editors consider that they are of functional significance.
TopNews and Announcements
New paper and poster: Developmental stages of the Japanese quail
Read this paper published in the January 2010 issue of Journal of Anatomy, free online:
Developmental stages of the Japanese quail
Sophie J. Ainsworth, Rachael L. Stanley, Darrell J. R. Evans
Download the accompanying poster (PDF file) or email us your name and address to request an A3 poster (subject line: 'Quail Poster').
Journal of Anatomy archive - free online!
For free access to the full archive of Journal of Anatomy from volume 1, issue 1 (1867) up to 2005 click here.
Access the most recent articles from 1997 to the latest EarlyView articles online. All issues more than two years old are made free.
NIH-funded authors and Journal of Anatomy
From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. In order to help authors comply with the NIH mandate, for papers accepted for publication in Journal of Anatomy after this date Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted manuscript (incorporating all amendments made during peer review, but prior to the publisher's copy-editing and typesetting) of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central at the point of acceptance by the journal. This version will then be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after publication. Following the deposit Wiley-Blackwell authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission. For further information, see here.
If authors wish to make their final published article openly accessible and without a 12 month embargo, they can choose to publish via the OnlineOpen service.
Wellcome and HHMI grantees can find out further information here.
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Online Submission
Submit your article online at ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly known as Manuscript Central).
Online Open
Authors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.
Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.
TopHighlights
Free content
Journal of Anatomy review articles are all available to read free of charge online, including those published in Symposium Issues. In addition, all content more than three years old, back until 1997, is free to download. Read the journal online.
Symposium Issues
The Intra-uterine Environment and Placentation (Issue 215:1 - July 2009)
The Integument Story: Origins, Evolution and Current Knowledge (Issue 214:4 - April 2009)
Review articles
The origin, molecular regulation and therapeutic potential of myogenic stem cell populations
A. Otto, H. Collins-Hooper, K. Patel
Art and brain: insights from neuropsychology, biology and evolution
Dahlia W. Zaidel
Exercise and osteoarthritis
David J. Hunter, Felix Eckstein
The fascia of the limbs and back - a review
Mike Benjamin
Top downloaded articles in 2008:
Structure-function relationships in tendons: a review
M. Benjamin, E. Kaiser, S. Milz
Reconstructing phylogenies and phenotypes: a molecular view of human evolution
Brenda J. Bradley
Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion
W. E. H. Harcourt-Smith, L. C. Aiello
A natural history of the human mind: tracing evolutionary changes in brain and cognition
Chet C. Sherwood, Francys Subiaul, Tadeusz W. Zawidzki
Hominin life history: reconstruction and evolution
Shannen L. Robson, Bernard Wood
Links to other relevant sites:
American Association of Anatomists
British Association for Psychopharmacology
British Society for Neuroendocrinology
The Biochemical Society
Biosciences Federation
British Association of Clinical Anatomists
Spanish Society of Anatomy
British Society for Immunology
British Society for Developmental Biology
British Society for Proteome Research
European Brain and Behaviour Society
