Muscle & Nerve is an international and interdisciplinary journal in both health and disease, concerning studies of the muscle, the neuromuscular junction, the peripheral motor, sensory and autonomic neurons, and the central nervous system where the behavior of the peripheral nervous system is clarified.

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  • 26%Acceptance rate
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Muscle & Nerve is devoted to publishing new clinical and research studies on the most important findings on neuromuscular disorders and treatment options from a range of medical fields, including: Electrophysiology and Electrodiagnosis • Anatomy • Biochemistry • Cell Biology • Epidemiology • Genetics • Immunology • Pathology • Pharmacology • Physiology • Toxicology • Virology

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Articles

CLINICAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open access

Motor Unit Number Index (MUNIX) in Control Children: Reference Values and Reliability

Christophe Boulay, Emilien Delmont, Frédérique Audic, Cécile Halbert, Sébastien Pesenti, Brigitte Chabrol, Béatrice Desnous, Shahram Attarian, 
  •  21 July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.28470
EDITORIAL

Repetitive Nerve Stimulation (RNS) Studies in Infants: Are Infants Just “Little Adults” or Do They Deserve Their Own Parameters (or Cut-Off Values) for RNS?

Sarah E. Wright, Tanya J. Lehky, 
  •  21 July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.28481
CLINICAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open access

Clinical Utility of Far‐Field Potentials in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Aicee Dawn Calma, Nathan Pavey, Claudia Santos Silva, Yukiko Tsuji, Mehdi A. J. Van den Bos, Michelle A. Farrar, Parvathi Menon, Steve Vucic, 
  •  18 July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.28480
INVITED REVIEW

Advances in MicroRNAs in Pathophysiology of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Jose Emilio Galeazzi Aguilar, Tomas Almeida-Becerril, Maricela Rodríguez-Cruz, 
  •  18 July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.28482
CLINICAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open access

Quantitative Muscle Ultrasound: A Non‐Invasive Biomarker for Monitoring Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Yu Jin Im, Yumi Choe, Jiwon Lee, Jeehun Lee, Jong Geol Do, Jeong-Yi Kwon, 
  •  16 July 2025
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.28469

Recent issues

The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

Structure and function of the skeletal muscle extracellular matrix

Allison R. Gillies BS, Richard L. Lieber PhD, 
  •  318-331
  •  9 March 2011
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.22094
full access

Interobserver agreement in the assessment of muscle strength and functional abilities in Guillain‐Barré syndrome

Ruud P. Kleyweg, Frans G. A. Van Der Meché, Paul I. M. Schmitz, 
  •  1103-1109
  •  November 1991
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.880141111

Lifetime course of myasthenia gravis

David Grob MD, Norman Brunner MD, Tatsuji Namba MD, Murali Pagala PhD, 
  •  141-149
  •  4 December 2007
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.20950

Functional and clinical significance of skeletal muscle architecture

Richard L. Lieber PhD, Jan Fridén MD, PhD, 
  •  1647-1666
  •  23 October 2000
https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4598(200011)23:11<1647::AID-MUS1>3.0.CO;2-M

Revised upper limb module for spinal muscular atrophy: Development of a new module

Elena S. Mazzone PT, Anna Mayhew PT, Jacqueline Montes PT, Danielle Ramsey PT, Lavinia Fanelli PT, Sally Dunaway Young PT, Rachel Salazar PT, Roberto De Sanctis PT, Amy Pasternak PT, Allan Glanzman PT, Giorgia Coratti PT, Matthew Civitello PT, Nicola Forcina PT, Richard Gee PT, Tina Duong PT, Marika Pane MD, Mariacristina Scoto MD, Maria Carmela Pera MD, Sonia Messina MD, Gihan Tennekoon MD, John W. Day MD, Basil T. Darras MD, Darryl C. De Vivo MD, Richard Finkel MD, Francesco Muntoni MD, Eugenio Mercuri MD, 
  •  869-874
  •  4 October 2016
https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.25430
More articles

The most read articles published in the Last Year

Open access

Myofascial Pain Syndrome: An Update on Clinical Characteristics, Etiopathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatmentimage

Jeremy P. Steen, Kishore S. Jaiswal, Dinesh Kumbhare, 
free access

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual NEALS Meeting

Open access

Multifocal Motor Neuropathy: A Narrative Reviewimage

Benjamin Claytor, David Polston, Yuebing Li, 

Altmetric measures the online attention that an article receives. Click here to view the latest trending articles from Muscle & Nerve based on attention in the past month.

The list below shows the top 3 Muscle & Nerve articles based on all-time Altmetric scores:

Rank Attention Score Research output
#1
A randomized placebo‐controlled phase 3 study of mesenchymal stem cells induced to secrete high levels of neurotrophic factors in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Article in Muscle & Nerve, January 2022
#2
Erratum

Article in Muscle & Nerve, August 2022
#3
Long‐term survival of participants in the CENTAUR trial of sodium phenylbutyrate‐taurursodiol in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Article in Muscle & Nerve, October 2020

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