The Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B was founded in 1912 as the Proceedings of the Imperial Academy by the Imperial Academy of Japan (now the Japan Academy). The Journal was split into the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A and Series B in 1977. PJA Series B publishes reviews and original articles in broad fields of natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, biology, engineering, agricultural sciences, medicine and pharmacy.*) Manuscripts are evaluated at least by two reviewers. Ten issues are published per year. The content is open access and available online through J-STAGE (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pjab).
Published by
The Japan Academy
Editor-in-Chief
Japan Academy, Osaka University
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
Executive Editor
Japan Academy, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Geophysics
Executive Editor
Japan Academy, The University of Tokyo
Editor
Japan Academy, Osaka University
Immunology
Editor
Japan Academy
Editor
Japan Academy
Urology
Editor
Japan Academy, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK)
Physics
Editor
Japan Academy
Biological Science
Editor, Cover Editor
Japan Academy
Pharmaceutical Science, Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Editor
Japan Academy, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Editor
Japan Academy, Shimadzu Corporation
Mass Spectrometry
Editor
Japan Academy, Nagoya University
Inorganic Chemistry
Editor
Japan Academy, RIKEN
Condensed Matter Physics