Clocks Sleep

摘要

Exciting new discoveries in the circadian and sleep field have mushroomed in the past 10 years, culminating in the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine being awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. According to PubMed, 43% of the total 245,281 publications containing the words “circadian or sleep”, were published between March 2008 and March 2018. These figures impressively demonstrate how fast and active a young research field is branching out in all aspects of life ranging from circadian genes and molecules, to sleepy cells, circadian rhythms, and sleep in organs and different organisms and superorganisms, as well as in the field of circadian and sleep disorders, in epidemiology, in developing wearables and nearables, and in the computational modeling of circadian regulation and sleep-wake states. With this new open-access journal, Clocks & Sleep, we aim to integrate all of these fascinating facets. Thus, we structured the journal in many different sections with corresponding section editors in an attempt to anticipate the wishes of potential submitting authors.