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
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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