[History of physiology journals]

Two physiological journals were founded in Czechoslovakia in 1952, namely Ceskoslovenská fyziologie and an international version which was then named Cechoslovackaja fiziologija, later renamed Physiologia Bohemoslovaca. The first three volumes of the latter journal were published exclusively in Russian with German summaries. It was not until 1956 that most reports began to be published in English, with Russian summaries. In 1958, the content of both journals at last became separated. Cs. fyziol. started to publish review articles in Czech or Slovak, abstracts of communications reported at various scientific meetings, news from international symposia, etc. Physiol. Bohemoslov. continued to print the results of original experimental work. The major personality standing at the cradle of the two journals was Ernest Gutmann. Both journals were published by the Institute of Physiology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. In an attempt to make the latter journal more attractive to perspective authors from abroad, the international journal was renamed Physiological Research (formerly Physiologia Bohemoslovaca) in 1991 and still is being published by the same institution. It is indexed and abstracted by Current Contents, Excerpta Medica/Medline, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences and Science Citation Index. A major change also occurred with the journal Ceskoslovenská fyziologie. This is now (since 1992) being published by the Czech Medical Society J.E. Purkynĕ. Besides publishing reviews intended as pregraduate and postdoctoral training for physiologists, physicians, pharmacologists and others working in allied fields of science, the journal informs members of the Czech and Slovak Physiological Societies about domestic and world news in physiology.