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Journal of Biological Rhythms is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of Psychology and Biology. The Journal is primarily focused on papers that describe any aspect of biological rhythms with a special emphasis on seasonal and circadian rhythms. However, papers on various other rhythms are also published in the Journal of Biological Rhythms. These publications can be reviews, commentaries, editorials, letters, and any other format that is relevant to biological rhythms. As such, the authors of the publications have a diverse set of backgrounds and base their findings in areas like ecology, neurobiology and behavior, psychology and psychiatry, endocrinology, developmental biology, pharmacology, cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and mathematical modeling. The Journal of Biological Rhythms has been in publication since 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. The journal's editor is William J Schwartz.

Scope
Journal of Biological Rhythms publishes papers on the understanding of basic nature, mechanisms, and functions underlying the generation, entrainment and expression of biological rhythms. The journal contains original research primarily on circadian and seasonal rhythms.

Themes
The following topics are listed on the SAGE website as subjects covered by the Journal of Biological Rhythms :
 * Sleep-Wake Cycles
 * Impact and Role of Rhythms in Health and Disease
 * Rhythms and Depression
 * Jet Lag and Shift Work
 * Hormonal and Metabolic Rhythms
 * Behavioral and Performance Rhythms
 * Reproductive Cycles
 * Photoperiodism, Seasonal Cycles, and Annual Cycles
 * Plant Rhythms and Their Mechanisms
 * Hibernation and Migration
 * Cellular Clock Mechanisms
 * Neuroanatomy and Neurobiology of Circadian Systems
 * Melatonin and Pineal Gland
 * Molecular Basis of Circadian Timing
 * Identification of Genes Underlying Rhythmicity
 * Control of Gene Expression by Clock Proteins
 * Comparison of Rhythm Mechanisms among Life Forms
 * Mechanisms of Photoreception and Photoentrainment
 * Information Transfer from and among Clock Cells
 * Mathematical Models of Circadian Oscillators

Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Biological Rhythms is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2014 impact factor is 2.774, ranking it 32nd out of 83 journals in the category ‘Physiology’. and 19th out of 85 journals in the category ‘Biology’.