Journal of Neuroscience

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Journal of Neuroscience  
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Abbreviated title (ISO) J. Neurosci.
Discipline Neuroscience
Language English
Publication details
Publisher Society for Neuroscience (United States)
Publication history 1981–present
Impact factor
(2010)
7.271 [1]
Indexing
ISSN 0270-6474 (print)
1529-2401 (web)
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The Journal of Neuroscience is a weekly scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical research articles in the field of neuroscience. Its editor-in-chief is John Maunsell, a Boston-based neuroscientist specializing in the visual cortex.

Contents

[edit] History

Volume 1 appeared in 1981 and issues appeared monthly; as its popularity grew it switched to a bimonthly in 1996 and then to a weekly in July, 2003.

[edit] Themes

[edit] Main themes

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

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

[edit] 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)

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