This virtual issue of EJN on “Disorders of the Nervous System”, freely available for download from the journal’s website*, is a compilation of articles describing clinical and translational neuroscience research published in 2012 (EJN volumes 35-36). This virtual issue highlights the superb quality and range of research on disease processes published by EJN. …
Excerpt from the FENS Trimestrial Newsletter Fall 2012 Issue By the Editors-in-Chief of EJN (Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter) and the Managing Editor of EJN (Sophie Gavarini). The design of useful clinical studies requires adherence to strict standards, including randomized assignment of subjects to conditions, blinding of experimenters, assuring adequate statistical power …
One may ask, do we still need journals, and what are the advantages of journals having distinct identities? Should we simply deposit our manuscripts on the web, and let the scientific community judge their significance over time, on the basis of the number of citations? Given the increasingly specialized subfields in our rapidly maturing science, …
An enormous number of ‘Open Access’ (OA) journals have emerged in recent years, and these compete for your publications in neurosciences. This Editorial by Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter touches on the OA environment and how EJN fits in the landscape. Read this Editorial in full on Wiley Online Library.
The content and style of description of statistical methods and results in the manuscripts submitted to EJN reflect the diverse trends of the many fields of neuroscientific research. Nevertheless, a consistent description of statistical methods and results in published articles is necessary. This Editorial by Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter provides guidance for the reporting of …