About this journal

Aims and scope

Under new editorship from 2008, Journal of Neurogenetics continues to publish papers involving the genetics of behavior, neural function or development, interpreted in the broadest sense. The Journal may be particularly appropriate for papers on behavioral, biochemical, or cellular aspects of neural function, plasticity, aging or disease. In addition to analyses in the traditional genetic-model organisms, C. elegans, Drosophila, mouse and the zebrafish, the Journal encourages submission of neurogenetic investigations performed in organisms not easily amenable to experimental genetics. Such investigations might, for instance, describe behavioral differences deriving from genetic variation within a species, or report human disease studies that provide exceptional insights into biological mechanisms. Manuscripts simply documenting the correlation of specific human SNPs with behavioral traits or neurological disorders are outside of the Journal's current Scope and will not be considered. In addition to Original Articles, the Journal will also publish Short Communications, and Hypotheses, as well as Invited Commentaries and Reviews. Meeting Reports or groups of Abstracts associated with Neurogenetics conferences will also appear on a regular basis.

Strengths of the Journal:

  • Revised presentation
  • Provides a fair and constructive peer review of manuscripts submitted
  • Ensures accepted manuscripts appear in electronic databases within six weeks of final acceptance
  • Provide rapid editorial review of papers previously reviewed by other journals
  • Allows authors maximal latitude in discussing the wide implications of their work and, when duly qualified, encourage discussions that question current models
  • Improving representation of research from countries outside Europe and North America.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 50K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.8 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 1.7 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 4.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.500 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.736 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 13 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 11% acceptance rate

Editorial board

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Chun-Fang Wu
Department of Biology
University of Iowa
Iowa City
IA, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Joy Alcedo - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Barry Ganetzky - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Martin Heisenberg - Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum, Wuerzburg, Germany
Ching Kung - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
David Lynch - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jeffrey L Noebels - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Mani Ramaswami - Smurfit Institute of Genetics & Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland
Michael Sendtner - University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
Maria B Sokolowski - University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Bing-wen Soong - National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Jing W Wang - University of California-San Diego, CA, USA
Daisuke Yamamoto - Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan


EDITORIAL BOARD


Alexander G. Bassuk - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Erich Buchner - University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Vivian Budnick - University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA
Harold A Burgess - National Institutes of Health/NICHD, Bethseda, MD, USA
John Carlson - Yale University, NH, USA
Arnand Chandrasekar - University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Yijuang Chern - Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Ann-Shyn Chiang - National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Ya-Hui Chou - Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Joseph G Culotti - Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jeff Dason - University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Yadin Dudai - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Alberto Ferrús - Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain
Karl-Friedrich Fischbach - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Charlotte Foerster - University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Paul Ch J Franken - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bertram Gerber - Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
Dan Goldowitz - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stephen F Goodwin - University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Ralph J Greenspan - University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
William Harris - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Gaiti Hasan - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
F Rob Jackson - Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
Yishi Jin - University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Azusa Kamikouchi - Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Toshihiro Kitamoto - University of Iowa, IA, USA
Charalambos P Kyriacou - University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Chi-Hon Lee - Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Taipei, Taiwan
Chenjian Li -
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Taipei
Yung-Feng Liao - Institute of Cellular and Orgasmic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiepi, Taiwan
John Manak - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
IA Meinertzhagen - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
D.P. Mohapatra - Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA
Leonid Moroz - University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL,USA
Stephan C.F. Neuhauss - University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Teresa Nicolson - Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Bruce O’Hara - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Joseph O'Tousa - University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Hitoshi Okamoto - RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute, Saitama, Japan
William L Pak - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Veena Prahlad - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
David Raizen - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Cathy Rankin - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
John Renger - Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA
Roland Strauss - University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Greg Seong-Bae Suh - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Paul H. Taghert - Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
Hiromu Tanimoto - Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Teiichi Tanimura - Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Douglas Wahlsten - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Shawn Xu - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Tian-Le Xu - Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Wei-Dong Yao - Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA, USA
Jin Yishi - University of San Diego California, USA
Bing Zhang - University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Yun Zhang - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Yi Zhong - Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA

EDITOR EMERITUS

Jeffrey C Hall - University of Maine, Orono, MN, USA


FOUNDING EDITOR

RN Rosenberg - University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA

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