Why publish in MPO?

• All content published in MPO is ‘open access’ which means any one with an internet connection can access them for free.
• Authors do not pay a submission fee for having their papers reviewed.
• There are no page charges for authors.
• MPO uses an open peer review process, which means that authors will know who reviewed their work, whether their manuscripts were declined or accepted.
• Reviewers comments are typically incorporated into a Prepublication Record of an accepted manuscript with the consent of the reviewer.  Prepublication records are publicly accessible; some manuscripts may not have a prepublication record.
• MPO aims to reach an editorial decision as fast as possible (see our timeline below for different types of manuscripts).
• Articles are published as and when they are accepted; i.e., they do not have to wait for a monthly issue of the journal.
• The time from acceptance to publication is short; we aim to publish an accepted manuscript within a week of acceptance (see average timelines below)
  • Estimated timeline (from submission to first decision): Letters to the Editor and Submissions to the ‘Point of View’ section: < 2 weeks; Research Communications & Brief Reviews: < 5 weeks
  • Estimated timeline (from acceptance to publication): Letters: 2 days; Other types of contributions: 1 week

• Authors retain copyright of their contribution.
• All content in MPO is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.
• Authors are encouraged to deposit contributions they make to Medical Physiology Online in their institutional repositories, personal websites, and contribute to dissemination of their work.

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