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Call for Papers: Molecular mechanisms in skeletal muscle: insights into development, regeneration, and maintenance
Skeletal Muscle is calling for submissions to our Collection on Molecular mechanisms in skeletal muscle: insights into development, regeneration, and maintenance.
Call for Papers: Cellular microenvironments in skeletal muscle homeostasis, regeneration, and disease
Skeletal Muscle is calling for submissions to our new Collection on Cellular microenvironments in skeletal muscle homeostasis, regeneration, and disease. This Collection focuses on signaling interactions, changes during muscle regeneration, perturbations in aging and disease, and the biomechanical cues involved in muscle homeostasis and repair.
Featured Article: Identifying kinematic biomarkers of the dystrophic phenotype in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Dystrophin-deficient zebrafish larvae are a small, genetically tractable vertebrate model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy that is well suited for early-stage therapeutic development. However, current approaches for evaluating their mobility, a physiologically relevant therapeutic outcome, yield data of low resolution and high variability that provides minimal insight into potential mechanisms responsible for their abnormal locomotion.
Authors: Jeffrey J. Widrick, Matthias R. Lambert, Felipe de Souza Leite, Youngsook Lucy Jung, Junseok Park, James R. Conner, Eunjung Alice Lee, Alan H. Beggs & Louis M. Kunkel
Published: 20 June 2025
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Integrated fibre-specific methylome and proteome profiling of human skeletal muscle across males and females with fibre-type deconvolution
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Spatiotemporal analysis of dystrophin expression during muscle repair
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The rise of rat models for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and therapeutic evaluations
The Review to this article has been published in Skeletal Muscle 2025 15:25
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Fighting for every beat: cardiac therapies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The Review to this article has been published in Skeletal Muscle 2025 15:26
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The endogenous molecular clock orchestrates the temporal separation of substrate metabolism in skeletal muscle
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Aberrant repair and fibrosis development in skeletal muscle
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Regulation of skeletal muscle growth by the IGF1-Akt/PKB pathway: insights from genetic models
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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: pathogenic mechanisms of muscle weakness
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T-tubule biogenesis and triad formation in skeletal muscle and implication in human diseases
Aims and scope
Skeletal Muscle is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that publishes articles investigating molecular mechanisms underlying the biology of skeletal muscle. A wide range of skeletal muscle biology is included: development, metabolism, the regulation of mass and function, aging, degeneration, dystrophy and regeneration. The emphasis is on understanding adult skeletal muscle, its maintenance, and its interactions with non-muscle cell types and regulatory modulators.
Editor quotes
Carmen Birchmeier, co-Editor- in-Chief
"Skeletal muscle provides a platform for work on basic mechanisms used during muscle development, regeneration disease and aging. I find the similarities and differences between developing and adult muscle stem cells particularly fascinating."
Markus A Rüegg, co-Editor-in-Chief
"Skeletal Muscle publishes influential mechanistic and methodological papers in the field and has become an important journal for my own research. I hope to further strengthen the journal´s coverage of mechanisms involved in the pathology of neuromuscular diseases."
David Glass, Founding Editor-in-Chief
"The goal of the journal is to understand how the skeletal muscle relevant cellular systems work, so that one might be able to improve human health and combat disease.”
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
Journal Impact Factor: 4.4 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 5.2 (2024)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.482 (2024)
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.914 (2024)Speed
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 8
Submission to acceptance (median days): 126Usage 2024
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