Know Your Journal: Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
Aims and scope | Neurosurgery aims “to provide a medium for the prompt publication of scientific papers dealing with clinical or experimental neurosurgery”. |
Publisher | Wolters Kluwer. The journal is the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, which has its office in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA. |
Frequency of publication | Monthly |
Editorial information | Dr Nelson M Oyesiku is currently the Editor-in-Chief. He is Professor of Neurological Surgery and Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and also Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurosurgery and Biotechnology. Dr Oyesiku specializes in pituitary tumours, brain tumours, and stereotactic radiosurgery. The journal has a publications committee, a 64-strong editorial advisory board, a separate international advisory board with members from more than fifty countries, and a very large editorial review board comprising separate teams for separate subspecialties such as cerebrovascular surgery, endovascular surgery, evidence-based medicine, neuroscience, neuropathology, and biostatistics. More information here: http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/Pages/EditorialBoard.aspx |
CRITERIA FOR PUBLICATION
The journal considers scientific papers dealing with clinical or experimental neurosurgery, solicited manuscripts on specific subjects from experts, and other information of interest to neurosurgeons. The categories under which contributions are published include the following.
- Scientific papers
- Case reports
- Reviews
- Concepts, innovations, and techniques
- Book reviews
- Letter to the editor
- Operative neurosurgery (a quarterly
- supplement focused exclusively on the
- operating room and aimed at enhancing skills)
- Technical case reports
- 3-D Video (short PowerPoint presentation of a case, with a voice over, followed by a narrated 3-D surgical video to illustrate the most important technical aspects of the case)
EDITORIAL POLICIES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Cover letters may be addressed to Dr Nelson M Oyesiku, Editor-in-Chief, Neurosurgery. All submissions must be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/neu.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEW PROCESS
The journal follows the standard double-blind peer review: the identity of authors is not disclosed to reviewers, to whom the authors remain anonymous.
GOOD PUBLISHING PRACTICES
Detailed guidance about the structure of the paper and formatting is available here: www.journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/documents/Files and Resources/For Authors/Instructions for Authors (Effective Jan 1 2011).pdf
The journal follows the AMA Manual of Style (10th edn). Authors may submit supplemental material (documents, graphics, tables, and videos) for online-only posting. The print version links the supplemental data through a QR code to facilitate access to that content by means of a mobile telephone. Neurosurgery provides podcasts (abstracts of scientific papers published in the journal and read out by native speakers) not only in English but also in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and in French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The podcasts are available at http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/Pages/podcastslanding.aspx
INDEXING & METRICS
The impact factor for 2014 is 3.620 (up from 3.031 in 2013 and 2.532 in 2012).
USEFUL LINKS
Journal homepage: http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/pages/default.aspx
For submissions: www.atseditorialoffice.org
Instructions to authors: www.journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/documents/Files and Resources/For Authors/Instructions for Authors (Effective Jan 1 2011).pdf
Editorial board: http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/Pages/EditorialBoard.aspx
Multi-language podcasts: http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/Pages/podcastslanding.aspx
Published on: Oct 16, 2015
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