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<i>The Journal of Neuroscience</i>

The Journal of Neuroscience

Academic journal

The Journal of Neuroscience is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience. It covers empirical research on all aspects of neuroscience. Its editor-in-chief is Marina Picciotto (Yale University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 6.709.[1]

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History

The journal was established in 1981 and issues appeared monthly; as its popularity grew it switched to a biweekly schedule in 1996 and then to a weekly in July 2003.

Themes

Main themes

Articles appear within one of the following five sections of the journal:

  • Cellular/Molecular
  • Development/Plasticity/Repair
  • Systems/Circuits
  • Behavioral/Cognitive
  • Neurobiology of Disease

The journal has revised its sections over the years. In 2004, it added the Neurobiology of Disease section due to the growing number of papers on this subject. In January 2013, the journal split the section Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive into two sections, Systems/Circuits and Behavioral/Cognitive, in order to make the sections of the journal approximately the same in size.[2]

Features

In addition, some issues of the journal contain articles in the following sections:

  • Brief Communications
  • Journal Club (brief reviews of articles that appeared in the Journal; written by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows; first published in September 2005)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Journal of Neuroscience". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.
  2. [2]
    Maunsell, John (2013). "New Journal Sections". The Journal of Neuroscience. 33 (1): 1. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5529-12.2012. PMC 6618639.
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