A new year means changes for our journal

Changes at Our Journal

I am honored and thrilled to serve as the new Editorin-Chief of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH). I am also humbled because this will be a challenging task, and Jim Kazura left big shoes to fill. Jim’s skillful leadership of the Journal for the last 15 years has been an enormous service to the membership of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTM...

A New Adventure for our Journal!

A journal editor writing an editorial, or indeed anyone else entrusted with this task, is usually expected to draw attention to the highlights of the current issue (new developments, debated issues, controversial opinions, and so on), thereby giving an idea of the potential impact of its content on readers and on the broader scientific community. It is therefore hardly surprising that I am open...

Our new journal.

A new year for the journal.

This issue initiates the first of a number of changes to the Journal of Neuroscience for 2003. Gordon Shepherd will be stepping down as Editor-In-Chief. By all measures such as submissions, impact, and readership, the Journal continued to improve during his term. We thank him for his efforts on behalf of the Journal . The former Behavioral/ Systems neuroscience section now specifically encompas...

Our recap for happy new year

To improve the understanding and communication of different kinds of contributor roles in research output, we decided to apply Contributor Roles Taxonomy, a renowned communitydeveloped open-standard taxonomy of contributions, to our journal starting from the first issue of 2017 (https://doi.org/10.5051/jpis.2017.47.1.1). Moreover, we have expressed our dedicated support for the National Library...