2011 was another strong year for Neuro-Oncology. The journal is projected to receive approximately 658 papers by the end of 2011, a substantial increase from 582 in 2010, when the journal began to be published monthly, and 576 in 2009. Free online access to Neuro-Oncology was added to the membership benefits of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology, further increasing the journal's distribution and exposure, and a mobile version of our website became available.
We are also pleased to report that our quality standard has remained high despite our continued growth, as reflected by our 2010 impact factor number of 5.483. This figure, released annually by Thomson Scientific in the Journal Citation Reports, is substantially higher than the 4.984 reported in 2009 and demonstrates an improved citation rate during a period of transition and flux for the journal. Neuro-Oncology is now ranked 24th of 185 oncology journals and 15th of 185 clinical neurology journals.
Starting with volume 14, Neuro-Oncology will begin requiring structured abstracts (organized into Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions sections) for all submitted manuscripts. We believe that this will make papers easier to review and index. We ask that all authors please keep this new format in mind when submitting their articles for consideration.
Fig. 1.
Neuro-Oncology's impact factors since 2002. The journal switched from quarterly publication to bimonthly in 2008 and to monthly in 2010. The 2010 impact factor of 5.483 reflects papers published in 2008 and 2009.
Neuro-Oncology is indebted to the tireless members of our editorial board (whose names appear in every issue of the journal) and other peer reviewers for helping us succeed (listed below are those reviewers who had agreed to conduct manuscript reviews as of October 31). We also thank our authors and readers for their ongoing valuable contributions to the journal.
Till Acker
Manish Aghi
Francis Ali-Osman
Jeffrey Allen, MD
James Michael Angelastro
Terri S. Armstrong
Joachim M. Baehring
Ute Bartels
Michael Brada
Cameron W. Brennan
Dan Cahill
Steven L. Carroll
Craig Castellino
Marc C. Chamberlain
Susan Chi
Jennifer Clarke
Elizabeth Brooks Claus
Charles Cobbs
Kenneth J. Cohen
Courtney Crane
Faith G. Davis
Linda Douw
Joan Engebretson
Bradley Erickson
Graziella Filippini
John C. Flickinger
Nicholas Foreman
Takamitsu Fujimaki
Mitsugu Fujita
Caterina Giannini
Richard J. Gilbertson
Kristine Glunde
Stewart Goldman
Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
Vidya Gopalakrishnan
Morris Groves
Nalin Gupta
Marlan Hansen
Christian Hartmann
Cynthia Hawkins
John W. Henson
Christal Herold-Mende
Ulrich Herrlinger
Kenneth Hess
Yuichi Hirose
Khê Hoang-Xuan
Leland Hu
Suyun Huang
Peter D. Inskip
Andreas H. Jacobs
Randy Jensen
Tao Jiang
Jeno Viktor Julow
Bernd Kaina
Daniel Kamei
Yukinari Kato
Timothy Kaufmann
Santosh Kesari
Helmut Kettennmann
Peter Krauseneck
Ashok Kumar
Lawrence Lamb
Heiner Langermann
Florence Lefranc
Maciej Lesniak
Maria Lopes
Lorenzo Magrassi
James M. Markert
Warren Mason
Masao Matsutani
Ian E. McCutcheon
Roger McLendon
Alex McMillan
Kazuhiko Mishima
Sabine Mueller
Do-Hyun Nam
Gila Neta
Edward A. Neuwelt
Theo Nicolaides
Andrew Norden
Terry Parker
Andrew T. Parsa
Vinay K. Puduvalli
Zvi Ram
Jaap C. Reijneveld
Sabrina Ronen
Joshua B. Rubin
Raymond Sawaya
Davide Schiffer
S. Clifford Schold, Jr.
Walter Stummer
Ghazaleh Tabatabai
Shingo Takano
Christina Tsien
Takaaki Yanagisawa
Seiichi Yoshida
Wei Zhang
The editorial office apologizes for any inadvertent omissions.