Neuro-Oncology, the official journal of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO), experienced yet another year of unprecedented success in its effort to help SNO meet its goal of advancing multidisciplinary research and education in neuro-oncology. It is also facing great changes, as Dr. Patrick Wen at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will take on the role of editor-in-chief in 2014.
Record High Impact Factor
The editors and staff are thrilled to announce that Neuro-Oncology's impact factor for 2012 is 6.180, a record high (Figure 1). Of note, the journal's only direct competitor received a score of 3.115. Neuro-Oncology is now ranked 24th of 196 oncology journals and 10th of 192 clinical neurology journals.
Figure 1.
Neuro-Oncology's impact factors. The impact factor, published annually by Thomson Scientific in the Journal Citation Reports, is determined using article citation rates and is used to measure journal quality.
Increase in Submitted and Published Articles
The journal experienced a continued increase in the number of new submissions in 2013. The editors—Editor-in-Chief W. K. Alfred Yung, SNO Executive Editor C. David James, JSNO Executive Editor Ryo Nishikawa, and EANO Executive Editor Michael Weller—will have acted on a projected 988 new and revised manuscripts by the end of 2013 (Table 1), an increase over the previous year. From January 1 through September 30, 146 papers were accepted for publication. The journal's acceptance rate is approximately 20%, which demonstrates a continued dedication to publishing only the most significant research, even as the number of submissions increase.
Table 1.
Number of new and revised manuscripts submitted
| Type | 2010 | 2011 | 2012* | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | 411 | 454 | 669 | 527 (704) |
| Revised | 153 | 217 | 244 | 215 (287) |
| Total | 564 | 671 | 913 | 742 (991) |
*Through September 30, 2013 (projected end of year).
Through the October issue, Neuro-Oncology had published 144 articles in 1452 pages (versus 129 in 1313 pages as of October 2012), demonstrating continued growth.
As of September 30, Neuro-Oncology had received manuscripts from 39 countries—38% from the United States and Canada, 36% from Europe, and 21% from Asia. Approximately half of all accepted papers were from the United States and Canada.
Peer and Statistical Reviewers
Neuro-Oncology is indebted to the members of its editorial board (whose names appear in every issue of the journal) and its numerous peer and statistical reviewers, all of whom have helped the journal along its path to success. Listed below are those reviewers who had conducted manuscript reviews as of September 30. The staff apologizes for any inadvertent omissions.
Roger Abounader
Manish Aghi
Atique Ahmed
Ovidiu Andronesi
James Michael Angelastro
Terri S. Armstrong
Carles Arus
Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic
Krystof Bankiewicz
Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan
Ute Bartels
Oren Becher
Elizabeth Beierle
Etty Benveniste
Stefan Blüml
Oliver Bogler
John Boockvar
Eric Bouffet
Michael Brada
Alba Ariela Brandes
Priscilla Brastianos
William Broaddus
Alberto Broniscer
Nicholas Butowski
J. Gregory Cairncross
Kevin Camphausen
Carmine M. Carapella
Robert Craig Castellino
Sharon Castellino
Alain Charest
Clark Chen
Pin-Yuan Chen
Prakash Chinnaiyan
Yoon-Jae Cho
Chun Kee Chung
Jennifer Clarke
Timothy F. Cloughesy
Kenneth J. Cohen
Rivka Colen
Howard Colman
Denise D. Correa
Sidney Croul
Faith G. Davis
John de Groot
Waldemar Debinski
Steven De Vleeschouwer
Harshil Dhruv
Adam P. Dicker
Linda Douw
Francois Doz
Janet Eary
Charles Eberhart
Anat Erdreich-Epstein
Bradley J. Erickson
Jason Fangusaro
Christian T. Farrar
Andres Ferreri
Elisabetta Ferretti
Isaiah J. Fidler
Graziella Filippini
Paul B. Fisher
Paul Graham Fisher
Tullio Florio
Peter A. Forsyth
Karl Frei
Juan Fueyo-Margareto
Takamitsu Fujimaki
Mitsugu Fujita
Robert Fulbright
Karin Gehring
Felice Giangaspero
Mark R. Gilbert
Maria Teresa Giordana
Candece L. Gladson
Roseline Godbout
Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
Corinne Griguer
Nalin Gupta
Daphne A. Haas-Kogan
Chunhai (Charlie) Hao
Elke Hattingen
Cynthia Hawkins
James E. Herndon, II, Ph.D.
Christel Claudia Herold-Mende
Ulrich Herrlinger
Kenneth Robert Hess, PhD
Khê Hoang-Xuan
Craig Horbinski
Jason T. Huse
Ahmed Idbaih
Yasushi Ino
Peter D. Inskip
Alexander Iomin
Mark A. Israel
Fabio M. Iwamoto
Nada Jabado
Rakesh Jalali
Annette Johnson
Derek Johnson
Thomas Kaley
Bozena Kaminska
Seok-Gu Kang
Yukinari Kato
Santosh Kesari
Raja B. Khan
Soumen Khatua
Elmar Kirches
Gaspar Kitange
Lan Kluwe
Tomasz Kordula
Peter Krauseneck
Steven Kridel
Anand S. Lagoo
Tamara Lah
Albert Lai
Katrin Lamszus
Joseph C. Landolfi
Andrew B. Lassman
Justin Lathia
Sean Edward Lawler
Florence Lefranc
Maciej Lesniak
Jing Li
David N. Louis
Robert A. Lustig
Lorenzo Magrassi
Peter Manley
Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera
Warren Mason
Maura Massimino
Akira Matsuno
Alex McMillan
Thomas E. Merchant
C. Ryan Miller
Duane A. Mitchell
Shin-Ichi Miyatake
Annette Molinaro
Sabine Mueller
Akitake Mukasa
Satoshi Nakasu
Yoko Nakasu
Sarah Nelson
Edward A Neuwelt
Simone P. Niclou
Theodore Nicolaides
Andrew Norden
Brian P. O'Neill
Hideho Okada
Antonio Omuro
Ashok Panigrahy
Ilwoo Park
Deric M. Park
John Park
Ian Parney
Marta Penas-Prado
Giorgio Perilongo
Anders Persson
Claudia Petritsch
Stefan Pfister
Joanna Phillips
David Piccioni
Michael Platten
Ian F. Pollack
Scott L. Pomeroy
Whitney Pope
Hans S. Poulsen
Sujit Prabhu
Nikolai Rainov
Jeffrey J. Raizer
Preetha Rajaraman
Zvi Ram
Jaap C. Reijneveld
Sabrina Ronen
Ally Roony
Lucy B. Rorke-Adams
Steven S. Rosenfeld
Mark A. Rosenthal
James Rubenstein
Joshua B. Rubin
Stefan Rutkowski
Ettore Salsano
Stephen A. Sands
Raymond Sawaya
Adrienne C. Scheck
Dawid Schellingerhout
Kathleen M. Schmainda
S. Clifford Schold
Judith Schwartzbaum
Thomas N. Seyfried
Wenyin Shi
Soichiro Shibui
Mitsuaki Shirahata
Tali Siegal
Ralph Sinkus
Andrew Edward Sloan
Robert W. Sobol
Kumaravel Somasundaram
Verena Staedtke
Kazuhiko Sugiyama
Erik Sulman
Ghazaleh Tabatabai
Sophie Taillibert
Hideo Takeshima
Marumoto Tomotoshi
Miguel Torres-Martin
Rheal Towner
Gail E. Tudor
Keisuke Ueki
Luis Vence
Andreas Waha
David A. Walker
Kyle Walsh
Jun Wang
Monika Warmuth-Metz
Katherine Warren
Samuel Weiss
Elizabeth M. Wells
Shun Wong
Thomas Wurdinger
Bakhtiar Yamini
Hai Yan
Stephen Yip
Seiichi Yoshida
David Zagzag
Wei Zhang
Xiang Zhang