Skeletal Muscle uses Article Processing Charges to sustain rigorous peer review, professional production, and immediate open access for muscle science. APCs apply only after acceptance; there are no submission fees.

This model ensures that muscle physiology research reaches clinicians, rehabilitation teams, and performance scientists without barriers.

APCs support editorial coordination, DOI registration, and long term preservation.

APCs directly support rapid editorial coordination and professional production workflows.

Report exercise protocols with intensity, frequency, and duration details.

Summaries that connect molecular signals to functional performance strengthen impact.

Clarify how satellite cell activation was measured and quantified.

State how fatigue or recovery outcomes were defined and compared.

Describe adverse events or safety monitoring for interventions.

Report effect sizes alongside statistical significance values.

Explain the inclusion of sex specific or age specific analyses.

Explain how functional outcomes relate to clinical thresholds.

Describe any equipment limitations that could affect outcomes.

Describe how muscle injury or recovery phases were staged.

Explain how participants were recruited and retained.

Document how muscle tissue storage conditions were maintained.

We consider waiver or discount requests to support equitable publishing. Requests are reviewed case by case and never influence editorial decisions.

• Authors from low and lower middle income economies
• Early career researchers with limited funding
• Public interest studies in muscle health
• Institutional membership programs

We provide invoices and documentation suitable for institutional finance and compliance teams.

Describe normalization steps for metabolomic or proteomic profiles.

Report statistical thresholds used for mechanistic or clinical outcome analysis.

Discuss limitations related to cohort size or model specificity.

Describe randomization and blinding procedures when applicable.

Explain how nutrition or supplementation variables were controlled.

Describe how missing data were handled in longitudinal analyses.

Report quality control steps for histology or biopsy processing.

Describe cross validation methods for predictive models.

Clarify how outcomes were normalized to body mass or lean mass.

Report variability measures for strength and endurance outcomes.

Describe how mechanistic assays were replicated across samples.

Explain steps taken to avoid batch effects in assays.

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Explain how muscle function outcomes were validated and replicated.

Include details on sample handling to preserve muscle tissue integrity.

Document how muscle strength or endurance outcomes were standardized.

Report instrumentation settings for strength and power testing.

Document compliance rates for training or rehabilitation protocols.

Clarify sample size calculations and power assumptions.

Document data processing pipelines for omics workflows.

State how training loads were progressed or periodized.

Provide context for comparisons against existing literature.

Summarize how interventions align with clinical practice standards.

Report inter rater or intra rater reliability where relevant.

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Document imaging settings for fiber typing and morphology assays.

Describe how confounders were handled in longitudinal training studies.

Describe how data deposition supports future reuse and verification.

Include calibration routines for dynamometers or metabolic carts.

Provide baseline characteristics for all cohorts and subgroups.

Include time points for follow up and recovery assessments.

Clarify assumptions in computational or modeling analyses.

Include details on diet or energy intake monitoring if relevant.

Document ethical approvals and consent procedures clearly.

Clarify if data are publicly available or under controlled access.

Clarify how exercise intensity zones were defined and monitored.

Clarify recruitment and activation markers for the muscle populations studied.

Note how animal or human cohorts were stratified by age and sex.

Provide context for translational relevance to rehabilitation or sports medicine.

Explain how muscle fiber composition was measured and validated.

Clarify the rationale for selected biomarkers and endpoints.

Summarize how muscle architecture outcomes were quantified.

Describe how imaging regions of interest were selected.

Provide references for validated scales or questionnaires used.

Summarize the translational significance for clinicians and patients.

Explain how confounders were mitigated in observational studies.

Provide links to repositories and accession numbers when available.

Summarize key limitations and propose future research directions.