President
Dr Seth Love
Institute of Clinical Neurosciences
School of Clinical Sciences
University of Bristol
Level 2, Learning & Research
Southmead Hospital
Bristol BS10 5NB
UK
Email: pasl@bristol.ac.uk
Past President
Dr Hitoshi Takahashi
Department of Pathology
Brain Research Institute
1‐757 Asahimachi
Chuo‐ku
Niigata University
Niigata 951‐8585
Japan
Email: hitoshi@bri.niigata-u.ac.jp
Vice‐Presidents
Dr SY Park (Korea), Email: shparknp@snu.ac.kr
Dr S Murayama (Japan), Email: smurayam@tmig.or.jp
Dr Douglas Anthony (USA), Email: douglas_anthony@brown.edu
Secretary‐General
Dr Monika Hofer
Neuropathology and Ocular Pathology
Department
Level 1, West Wing
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
Email: monika.hofer@nhs.net
Project Secretary
Dr Audrey Rousseau
Departement de Pathologie Cellulaire et Tissulaire
PBH
CHU ANGERS
4, rue Larrey
49100 ANGERS
France
Email: audrey.rousseau@univ-angers.fr
Editor of Brain Pathology
Dr Markus Glatzel
Institute of Neuropathology
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg‐Eppendorf
Martinistr. 52
20246 Hamburg
Germany
Email: m.glatzel@uke.de
Treasurer
Dr Stephan Frank
Pathologie Universitätsspital Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 40
CH‐4031 Basel
Switzerland
Email: stephan.frank@anti-clutterusb.ch
Archivist
Dr Maria Thom
Department of Neuropathology
Institute of Neurology
Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG
UK
Email: m.thom@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Chair Training and Development Subcommittee
Dr Raj Kalaria (UK), Email: r.n.kalaria@newcastle.ac.uk
Book Editors
Dr Herbert Budka (Austria), Email: herbert.budka@meduniwien.ac.at
Dr Homa Adle‐Biassette (France),
Email: homa.adle@inserm.fr
Ordinary members of the Executive Committee
Dr Marc Del Bigio (Canada), Email: marc.delbigio@umanitoba.ca
Dr Laura Chavez‐Macias (Mexico),
Email: laurachm@prodigy.net.mx
Dr Takashi Komori (Japan), Email: komori-tk@igakuken.or.jp
The way we do science has changed dramatically over the last decade. Large‐scale data generation and integration of omics data, which are available on shared open‐access platforms, have helped unravel mechanistic insights underlying complex diseases and multilab projects are rather rule than exception. This has also affected neuropathology and recent breakthroughs in diagnostic procedures were only possible by integration of biomedical data sets with classical neuropathology 1, 3. Thus, access to and handling of big data sets is becoming as important as looking at single neurons. Scientific journals such as Brain Pathology are not only responding to this challenge but they are also shaping the future by incorporating new tools to facilitate the dissemination of scientific knowledge and to enable access to biomedical data sets 2. Thus, from now onwards, data availability will play a key role in all papers published in Brain Pathology (see the recent paper by Gallart‐Palau et al. 4). With this, our journal is following the Transparency Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines which you can review here.
For Brain Pathology authors, integration of this new service will require only minor changes to the submission process all of which are detailed here (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17503639/homepage/forauthors.html). For Brain Pathology readers, this service allows a deeper look at data that were used to support statements made by an article. Brain Pathology also provides standardized and predictable links for biomedical data sets used in published manuscripts.
The editorial team will continue to monitor how data citation evolves over the next years but for now, we feel that the changes outlined here will help make data citation clearer and data availability broader.
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