About the Journal
Update: 1 April 2025
The Pathophysiology of Cell Injury Journal (PCIJ) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, reliable, and ethically sound research focused on the mechanisms, consequences, and repair processes of cellular and tissue injury. The journal emphasizes both fundamental and translational research that advances understanding of disease pathogenesis at the cellular and molecular levels.
The journal fully supports Open Access publishing and the FAIR Data Principles — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable — encouraging authors to share underlying data, code, supplementary materials whenever possible, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)
PCIJ strictly adheres to the principles and best practices outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Our mission is to promote rigorous scientific communication, ensure global accessibility to research, and maintain trust in the scholarly record through responsible publishing practices.
Aims & Scope
PCIJ aims to advance knowledge in cell injury, degeneration, adaptation, and repair by providing a platform for transparent, reproducible, and methodologically robust research. The journal welcomes original contributions that enhance understanding of cellular responses to stress, injury, and disease and that bridge basic science with clinical relevance.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cell injury
- Oxidative stress and redox biology
- Inflammation and immune-mediated cell damage
- Apoptosis, necrosis, necroptosis, and autophagy
- Mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic stress
- Ischemia–reperfusion injury
- Cell adaptation, regeneration, and repair
- Toxicology and drug-induced cellular injury
- Translational research in cardiovascular, neurological, renal, hepatic, and oncologic injury
Article types: original research articles, systematic and narrative reviews, meta-analyses, experimental and translational studies, short communications, editorials, and perspectives.
Audience
The journal serves biomedical researchers, clinician-scientists, pathologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and graduate-level scholars seeking peer-reviewed evidence related to cellular pathology and disease mechanisms within the global scientific community.
Journal Profile
Full Title: Pathophysiology of Cell Injury Journal (PCIJ)
E-ISSN: 2378-5225
Publication Model: Open access, peer-reviewed
Publication Frequency: Biannual (2 issues/year)
Language: English
DOIs: Crossref-registered DOIs assigned to all published articles
All articles are published online with assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to ensure persistent citation and long-term accessibility.
History & Title Continuity
The Pathophysiology of Cell Injury Journal (PCIJ) has been published continuously under its current title, reflecting its focused scope on cellular injury and disease mechanisms. All previously published content remains permanently accessible.
Metadata and DOI records are maintained through Crossref to ensure citation continuity and long-term discoverability. PCIJ is committed to digital preservation through recognized archiving and metadata preservation practices to safeguard the scholarly record.
Ownership & Publisher
PCIJ is owned and published by BM-Publisher Ltd., an independent scholarly publisher based in the United Kingdom. The publisher supports the journal’s editorial independence and ensures compliance with international ethical, legal, and technical standards for scholarly publishing.
Publisher: BM-Publisher Ltd.
Address: 3rd Floor, 86–90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE, United Kingdom
Registered in England No: 07212205 · VAT No: 111622956
Indexing and Archiving
PCIJ is committed to transparency in ownership, governance, peer review, and editorial processes and aligns its policies with internationally recognized standards for responsible scholarly publishing.