A Season of Change for The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences is in its 27th year of publication. Through its nearly three decades of operation, it has become a premier venue for publishing articles on the psychiatric aspects of neurological conditions and the neurology of psychiatric disorders. Our latest impact factor is 2.77, our 5-year impact factor is 3.14, our current H-index is 85, and the articles in our journal have been collectively cited more than 41,000 times. Our readership base has expanded to more than 1,500 subscribers, including nearly 600 individual subscribers, more than 500 institutional subscribers, and more than 400 institutional subscribers with access to Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences through the PsychiatryOnline program. The journal is home to many of the most highly cited articles in the field of neuropsychiatry, and our website is accessed more than 650,000 times annually. We also are honored to continue our more than 25 years of service as the official journal of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.

While our successes are substantial, progress requires continued growth and periodic redevelopment. Toward that end, American Psychiatric Publishing (APP) began this publishing year with a new cover design and article layout aligned with others in its catalog. The table of contents of each issue now includes brief abstracts describing each article and highlights articles that address one or more of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies. Our peer review process has been expanded and expedited by shared use of ScholarOne with our sister journals in the APP catalog, enabling us to reduce the time from submission to first editorial decision to 20.5 days. During the last year, APP also instituted JNP in Advance, which makes articles available to subscribers and indexes them in PubMed within 12 weeks of their acceptance for publication. The creation of the Online Exclusives section of the journal enabled rapid movement of articles through our publication queue. Together, these maneuvers have positioned the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences to expeditiously publish cutting-edge neuropsychiatric research, scholarly reviews, and instructive cases. With regard to the cases in our Letters to the Editor section, this issue also marks the transition to a refined focus for these reports: novel clinical observations that inform usefully on the neuropsychiatric manifestations of neurological conditions and/or the neurology of psychiatric disorders.

This issue also marks a time of renewal for the journal’s Editorial Board. With deep gratitude and great respect, we thank our outgoing Editorial Board members for their many years of volunteer service to the journal: Consulting Editors Floyd Bloom, M.D., Eric R. Kandel, M.D., Solomon H. Synder, M.D., and the late Edward G. Jones, M.D., Ph.D.; and Associate Editors Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., Dwight L. Evans, M.D., Robert C. Green, M.D., John M. Morihisa, M.D., Stephen Salloway, M.D., M.S., Randolph B. Schiffer, M.D., and Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D. All have been stalwart members of the journal’s Editorial Board during its formative years, and we are honored by and deeply appreciative of their contributions to and support of the journal. We welcome new members of our Editorial Board, all of whom are Fellows of the American Neuropsychiatric Association: Deputy Editor C. Alan Anderson, M.D.; Consulting Editors C. Edward Coffey, M.D., Thomas W. McAllister, M.D., Fred Ovsiew, M.D., and Jonathan M. Silver, M.D.; and Associate Editors Sheldon Benjamin, M.D., Kevin J. Black, M.D., John J. Campbell, M.D., Miles Cunningham, M.D., Richard B. Ferrell, M.D., Laura A. Flashman, Ph.D., Yonas E. Geda, M.D., Daniel I. Kaufer, M.D., W. Curt LaFrance, M.D., Mario Mendez, M.D., Ph.D., David A. Silbersweig, M.D., Kaloyan S. Tanev, M.D., and Hal S. Wortzel, M.D. We look forward to working with them as stewards of the journal’s editorial direction, operations, and peer-review process. We also wish to take this opportunity to convey our heartfelt gratitude to the many professionals who have provided peer review over the years. Their selfless contributions are essential to maintaining the high quality and scientific integrity of our journal.

To paraphrase C.S. Lewis,¹ growth is the synthesis of continuity and change. The contributions and goodwill of colleagues concluding their service to the journal, the energy brought by our new additions to our Editorial Board, the stalwart service of our many peer reviewers, and the freedom to move forward creatively in partnership with our colleagues at APP are the ingredients for continued growth and success of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. We are confident that this combination of continuity and change will enhance our work and provide you, our readers, with the stuff of professional sustenance and growth for many years to come.