Announcing the new launch of Neurological Research and Practice
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Neurological Research and Practice
EDITORIAL
Open Access
Announcing the new launch of Neurological Research and Practice Werner Hacke1,2 Welcome to the first set of articles from the new open access journal Neurological Research and Practice. This journal is published by the German Neurological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie, DGN) in partnership with BMC, a part of Springer Nature. You may wonder whether there is a need for another neurology journal, given the continuously growing number of options available in which to publish your research. Neurological Research and Practice is different from other new open access journals. Firstly, this journal is owned and edited by the German Neurological Society and not by a commercial publishing company. Secondly, although we will provide open access, there will be no costs for authors in the first few years of establishing the journal; all costs will be covered by the DGN. Thirdly, this is the first and only English language publication by the DGN providing easy access to the broad spectrum of scientific activities coming from German neurology, especially the broad range of high quality work that just misses being published in the highest ranked general medicine journals or neuroscience specialty publications. Historically, German neurology was connected to three German language journals; one of them was the „Zeitschrift Neurologie “(which became the Europe-based Journal of Neurology (J Neurol) some 30 years ago), the journal Der Nervenarzt (Springer Medizin, founded in 1928) still exists today and Aktuelle Neurologie (Thieme) was closed at the end of 2018. In 2018 another society owned, bimonthly German language publication called DGNeurologie was launched by the DGN. The board of the DGN had discussed, for some time, the publication of an electronic-only open access English language journal to make the role and the achievements of German neurology more visible to an international audience. Although research papers from German neurologists are frequently found in leading international publications, in fact, most highly ranked journals frequently Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 2 Neurological Research and Practice, Heidelberg, Germany
feature articles from German authors. Journal articles from German authors are among the most highly cited publications found in many main topics of modern neurology and neuroscience, such as stroke, neuroimmunology, epilepsy, headache, movement disorders, neurooncology and neurogenetics. Still, the actual role of German institutional and scientific neurology is not easily accessible to international readers. Not many experts know that the DGN has almost 10,000 active members and thereby is the second largest neurological society worldwide. Our annual congress attracts more than 7000 German-speaking neurologists and is also one of the largest national neurology conferences. In Germany neurology has evolved
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