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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.

History
tbh no clue so far

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.

In the News
news stories? add PubMed citations for relevant papers? also use Web of Science Citation/Google Scholar

Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Biological Rhythms is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

Impact
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2015 impact factor is 2.824, ranking it 29th out of 83 journals in the category ‘Physiology,’ and 18th out of 86 journals in the category ‘Biology’. In 2015 and 2016, according to ResearchGate, its impact factor was 2.38.