The ''European Journal of Neuroscience'' is a biweekly
peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of
neuroscience
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. It was established in 1989 with
Ray Guillery (then at the
University of Oxford
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, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
) as the founding
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
. The editor-in-chief is
John J. Foxe (
University of Rochester
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) The journal is published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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on behalf of the
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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History
The federation ...
. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 3.386.
Authors can elect to have accepted articles published as
open access.
EJN adopted transparent peer-review in January 2017.
Sections
Articles will appear within one of the five sections of the journal:
* Molecular and Synaptic Mechanisms
* Systems Neuroscience
* Behavioural Neuroscience
* Cognitive Neuroscience
* Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
Features
EJN also publishe
specialan
issues related to topical issue in neuroscience.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been or are editor-in-chief:
*Ray Guillery (1989–1993)
*
Michel Cuénod
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* Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers)
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(1993–1997)
*
Barry Everitt (1997–2002)
*Barry Everitt and
Chris Henderson
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(2002–2008)
*
Jean-Marc Fritschy and
Martin Sarter Martin Sarter is the Charles M. Butter Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He has been co-editor-in-chief of the ''European Journal of Neuroscience
The ''European Journal of Neuroscience' ...
(2008–2014)
*
J. Paul Bolam and John J. Foxe (2014–2020)
*John J. Foxe (2020–present)
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Elsevier Biobase
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,
Biological Abstracts
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,
BIOSIS Previews
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BIOSIS Previews ...
,
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica,
Index Medicus
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/
MEDLINE
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,
PsycINFO
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,
PubMed
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,
Science Citation Index Expanded,
Scopus
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, and
The Zoological Record
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It was started as a print publication in 1864 by the Zoological Society of London, ...
.
References
External links
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Neuroscience journals
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