About this journal

Aims and scope

Eye and Brain is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on cutting-edge laboratory findings and expert reviews in the field of visual science and neuro-ophthalmology. The journal’s unique focus is the link between two well-known visual centers, the eye and the brain, with an emphasis on the importance of such connections as well as on the eye as a window for neurodegenerative diseases. All aspects of basic research on the visual system are addressed within the journal as well as significant future directions in vision research and therapeutic measures.

This unique journal focuses on neurological aspects of vision – both physiological and pathological. The scope of the journal spans from the cornea to the associational visual cortex and all the visual centers in between. Topics range from basic biological mechanisms to therapeutic treatment, from simple organisms to humans, and utilizing techniques from molecular biology to behavior. The journal especially welcomes primary research articles or review papers that make the connection between the eye and the brain.

Specific areas covered in the journal include:

  • Physiology and pathophysiology of visual centers
  • Eye movement disorders and strabismus
  • Cellular, biochemical, and molecular features of the visual system
  • Structural and functional organization of the eye and of the visual cortex
  • Metabolic demands of the visual system
  • Diseases and disorders with neuro-ophthalmic manifestations
  • Experimental neuro-ophthalmology and visual system pathology
  • Visual dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease

The journal welcomes submissions of original research, review papers, evaluations, guidelines, expert opinion and commentary and extended reports. Any case reports or case series submitted to Eye and Brain will automatically be diverted to the International Medical Case Reports Journal (Journal metric data for this journal can be accessed here).

Eye and Brain will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 25K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 3.1 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 4.2 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 7.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.278 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.967 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr Rustum Karanjia, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Editorial Board:

Professor Daniel Barth, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, United States

Professor Valerio Carelli, Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna, Italy

Professor Jerold Chun, Neuroscience Drug Discovery, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, United States

Dr Dipankar Das, Ocular Pathology, Uveitis & Neuroophthalmology Services, Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, India

Professor C. Edward Dixon, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr Michael Farkas, Department of Ophthalmology, University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States

Christian Franceschini, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy

Professor Michael Friedlander, Health Sciences and Technology,Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, United States

Professor Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Department of Psychology and Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Dr Neeru Gupta, Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada

Professor Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, Ophthalmology, The University of Utah Moran Eye Center, United States

Professor William Jeffery, Biology, University of Maryland at College Park, United States

Professor Jon Kaas, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States

Professor Boris Malyugin, Cataract & Implant Surgery, S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery State Institution, Russia

Professor Dario Marchetti, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine; Member, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Nuzzi, Eye clinic Section, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

Dr Alfredo A Sadun, Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Center/ UCLA, United States

Dr Jerome Sherman, State College of Optometry, State University of New York, United States

Dr Barry Stein, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

Professor Yeni Yucel, Departments of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, and Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science in Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dr M S Zobaer, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, United States

Abstracting and indexing

Eye and Brain is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EMBASE (Elsevier)

Pubmed (NLM)

PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Open access

Eye and Brain is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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