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 Sabine Kastner (Princeton University), who succeeded Marina Picciotto (Yale University) in 2024. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.4.[1]
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| Discipline | Neuroscience |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Sabine Kastner |
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| History | 1981–present |
| Publisher | Society for Neuroscience (United States) |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| 4.4 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Neurosci. |
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| CODEN | JNRSDS |
| ISSN | 0270-6474 (print) 1529-2401 (web) |
| LCCN | 81640907 |
| OCLC no. | 476317794 |
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History
editThe 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
editMain themes
editArticles 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
editIn 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Journal of Neuroscience". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.
- ^ 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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