About this journal
Aims and scope
© 2017 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports® for 2016 ranks The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences in Neurosciences and History & Philosophy of Science.
Aims and Scope. The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences is the leading communication platform dealing with the historical roots of the basic and applied neurosciences. Its domains cover historical perspectives and developments, including biographical studies, disorders, institutions, documents, and instrumentation in neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropsychology, and the behavioral neurosciences. The history of ideas, changes in society and medicine, and the connections with other disciplines (e.g., the arts, philosophy, psychology) are welcome. In addition to original, full-length papers, the journal welcomes informative short communications, letters to the editors, book reviews, and contributions to its NeuroWords and Neurognostics columns. All manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by an Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, full- and short-length papers are subject to peer review (double anonymized, if requested) by at least 2 anonymous referees.
Peer Review Policy.
All articles in JHN have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous reviewers. Double-anonymized reviewing is done if requested.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 44K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.751 (2023) SNIP
- 0.171 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 16 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 33 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 40% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
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†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
P. J. Koehler - Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
P. Foley - Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia
F. W. Stahnisch - AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
D. J. Lanska - Department of Humanities, Institute of Social Science, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia and Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
M. Auffret, "Behavior & Basal Ganglia Research Unit", University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
J.-G. Barbara, Laboratoire de recherches historiques et épistémologiques sur les sciences exactes et les institutions scientifiques, Univ. P. & M. Curie, Paris, France
J. Bogousslavsky, Center for Brain and Nervous System Diseases, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Switzerland
F. Brigo, Dept. of Neurology, Hosptial of Merano (SABES-ASDAA), Merano-Meran, Italy
S. Finger, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
C. G. Goetz, Dept. of Neurology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, USA
A. Karenberg, Institut für die Geschichte der Medizin, Köln, Germany
D. J. Lanska, Department of Humanities, Institute of Social Science, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia and Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
J. Wayne Lazar, Neuropsychologist, Garden City, NY, USA
B. Lichterman, Dept. of Medical History, Russian History and Cultural Studies, The IM Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
M. P. Lorch, Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
E. D. Louis, Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
B. T. H. Lutters, Julius Center, Medical Humanities, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
P. Mazzarello, Dept. of Experimental Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Uwe Neubauer, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Bremen, Germany
R. Olry, Dept. of Chemical Biology, University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, Canada
M. Piccolino, Dept. of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Italy
G. A. Russell, Dept. of Humanities, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station,TX, USA
E. Sakalauskaite-Juodeikiene, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania,
Youjung Shin (???, ???), Dept. of Science Studies, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea
S. Sandrone, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
E. Sirgiovanni, Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Unit of History of Medicine, Sapienze University, Rome, Italy
A. A. Vein, Dept. of Neurology, University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
N. J. Wade, Dept. of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
O. Walusinski, Family Physician, Brou, France
E.F.M. Wijdicks, Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/indexed in:
- CSA
- PsycINFO - EBSCOhost
- Academic Search Alumni Edition
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Premier
- Current Abstracts
- Historical Abstracts (Online)
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
- TOC Premier - Elsevier
- EMBASE
- Scopus - National Library of Medicine
- PubMed- MEDLINE
- OCLC
- ArticleFirst
- Electronic Collections Online
- PsycFIRST - ProQuest
- Thomson Reuters
- Arts and Humanities Search
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Web of Science
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Society information
Official Journal of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences
Official Journal of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group for the History of the Neurosciences
4 issues per year
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