We have decided to launch a special format of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, the JCBFM Clinical issue. Our journal has always covered a wide range of topics, from the basal to the translational, the applied to the clinical, but in recent years the number of submissions with a clinical context and a mechanistic scope has decreased. We consider this very unfortunate because we think that it is important to maintain a stimulating mix of papers at the crossover of productive research fields.
Our vision for the new JCBFM Clinical format is to publish the most exciting research focusing on a particular disease category or pathophysiological event and linked to mechanistic insights. It is not our intention to publish purely observational studies: JCBFM Clinical issues will address topics that are interesting for the specialized readership of our journal, topics relating to mechanisms that impact on our understanding of cerebral circulation, brain metabolism, and the blood–brain barrier.
We have decided to invite highly esteemed scientists to serve as guest editors for the JCBFM Clinical issue. For the first issue, we were lucky to be able to enlist Professor Gary Rosenberg (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA) to organize a volume of peer-reviewed articles on vascular cognitive impairment. Professor Rosenberg and the excellent clinicians and researchers he has invited have produced a truly engrossing volume addressing this important clinical condition, and we hope it will be on the night table of every researcher with an interest in vascular dementia. We want to thank Professor Rosenberg and his colleagues for their tremendous contribution to the journal.
The next JCBFM Clinical issue will be compiled by the COSBID group (Cooperative Study of Brain Injury Depolarizations). We are looking forward to working with its guest editors, Jens Dreier (Berlin) and Jed Hartings (Cincinnati). We invite you, our dear readers, to submit your proposals for a special clinical issue. As in the past, JCBFM Clinical issues will be selected on the basis of topic and mechanistic insight, excellence, as well as their interest to the readership of this journal.
We look forward to hearing from you.