Neuropediatrics 2017; 48(01): 001-002
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1597985
Editorial
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

A Message to the Readers of Neuropediatrics

Barbara Plecko
1   Division of Child Neurology, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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Address for correspondence

Prof. Barbara Plecko, MD
University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75
CH-8032 Zurich
Switzerland   

Publication History

Publication Date:
25 January 2017 (online)

 

    In the very first editorial of 2017, we would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a healthy and prosperous New Year for your professional as well as private affairs.

    A scientific journal as Neuropediatrics is living on high-quality submissions and the right mixture of research and review articles as well as selected case reports. Within the past year, we have created a new format of video presentations that has been well perceived and serves as an interactive training platform with significant usage over the past months. We thank all the authors who contributed to the publication output in 2016. A warm and big thanks is owed to our reviewers, who guarantee the high standard of accepted articles and voluntarily dedicate their spare time to academia. Along this gratitude, we are pleased to publish in this issue the list of reviewers who have been active for our journal during the past year. In the interest of submitting authors, the editorial team and reviewers are trying hard to speed up the turnaround time of articles. Within the late last year, Thieme has been able to shorten the period from acceptance to online publication, a big achievement in the interest of our authors and the scientific community.

    The year of 2017 will bring changes to the editorial team. Prof. Eugen Boltshauser has decided to step down as one of the three editors in chief. His truly encyclopedic knowledge as a child neurologist, his personal network, and continuous effort to serve in the best interest of our society and its official journal cannot be overemphasized. In the name of our readers and authors as well as Thieme publishers, we would therefore like to thank Prof. Boltshauser for his excellent and substantial contribution to the journal over many years and are happy that he accepted to be a member of the Editorial Board also in the future. Having said this, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Nicole Wolf as his successor to our editorial team. Dr. Wolf has been an associate editor for several years and has an exceptional publication record with a focus on neuroimaging and myelination and a thorough knowledge on other topics in child neurology. This transition will support our expertise and will spread our geographic network to reach out for high-quality article submissions.

    As some may have noticed, the list of associate editors also has undergone changes. Prof. Florian Heinen has stepped down by the end of 2016 and deserves our sincerest thanks for his contributions to Neuropediatrics especially on editing the themed issue on headache in 2013. We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Linda de Vries has accepted our invitation to switch from the editorial board to the team of associate editors, as she has been a highly appreciated busy and reliable reviewer for our journal over many years.

    In 2017, our page budget has slightly increased, and therefore, we want to encourage the scientific community for submission of more articles in all categories of the journal. The acceptance rate is on average 43% and our impact factor has seen a steady increase to 1.29. The editorial team welcomes suggestions for review topics as well as topics for themed issues and applications for guest editing a special issue, to be sent via e-mail to either of the three editors in chief.

    We are proud for Neuropediatrics to be the official journal of the Gesellschaft für Neuropädiatrie and encourage society members to actively use the journal as their forum of research and education.

    Thank You, Reviewers!

    Ishaq Abu-Arafeh

    Nadeem Ali

    Birgit Assmann

    Stephane Auvin

    Thomas Bast

    Enrico Bertini

    Steffen Berweck

    Christian Bieli

    Annette Bley

    Harald Bode

    Eugen Boltshauser

    Ingo Borggraefe

    Geraldine Boylan

    Kees Braun

    Knut Brockmann

    Russell Butterfield

    Giangennaro Coppola

    Russell C. Dale

    Hamid Dalvand

    Linda de Vries

    Marie-Claire de Wit

    Marjolein Dremmen

    Olivier Dulac

    Marc Engelen

    Pahr Engstrom

    Harald Erhardt

    Martha Feucht

    Peter Freisinger

    Katsunori Fujii

    Jutta Gaertner

    Àngels García-Cazorla

    Marc Garetier

    Thorsten Gerstner

    Begoña Godes-Medrano

    Wolfgang Goepel

    Rob J.M. Groen

    Samuel Groeschel

    Edda Haberlandt

    Annette Hackenberg

    Johannes Haeberle

    Andreas Hahn

    Hans Hartmann

    Holger Hauch

    Martin Häusler

    Breda C. Hayes

    Raoul Hennekam

    Barbara Hero

    Ryoko Honda

    Veronka Horber

    Henry Houlden

    Peter Huppke

    Yuji Inaba

    Floor Jansen

    Hazel Jones

    Christian Jux

    Virginia S. Kharasch

    Matthias Kieslich

    Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof

    Joerg Klepper

    Gerhard Kluger

    Christian Korff

    Rudolf Korinthenberg

    Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann

    Peter Kroisel

    Gerhard Kurlemann

    Franco Laccone

    Bea Latal

    Anna-Elina Lehesjoki

    Aya Maeltzer

    Rolf Maier

    Volker Mall

    Hanna Mandel

    Brittany Mason

    An N. Massaro

    Luca Massimi

    Johannes Mayr

    Devin L. McCaslin

    Avner Meoded

    Sara Mole

    Ichiro Morioka

    Rima Nabbout

    David Nadal

    Petros Nemtsas

    Bernd Neubauer

    Richard Newton

    Akihisa Okumura

    Simona Orcesi

    John R. Ostergaard

    Pasquale Parisi

    Phil Pearl

    Belen Perez Duenas

    Heike Philippi

    Tyler Pierson

    Barbara Plecko

    Andrea Poretti

    Daniela Prayer

    Raymond Price

    Georgia Ramantani

    Dietz Rating

    Markus Rauchenzauner

    Raybaud Charles

    Marianne Rohrbach

    Andrea Romigi

    Hendrik Rosewich

    Andrea Rossi

    Kevin Rostasy

    Sabine Rudnik

    Martin Ruecker

    Michael S. Salman

    Mark Samuels

    Harvey Sarnat

    Seetha Shankaran

    Claire Sheldon

    Yoshimi Sogawa

    Martin Staudt

    Robert Steinfeld

    Maja Steinlin

    Georg Stettner

    Pasquale Striano

    Marte Syvertsen

    Michael J. Thorpy

    Dagmar Timmann-Braun

    Regina Trollmann

    Clara D. M. van Karnebeek

    William Vandertop

    Adeline Vanderver

    Alberto Verrotti

    Erick Viorritto

    Jan-Falco Wilbrand

    Marko Wilke

    Michèl Willemsen

    Wilhelm Woessmann

    Nicole Wolf

    Hiroyuki Yamamoto

    Toshiyuki Yamamoto

    Jill Zwicker


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    Address for correspondence

    Prof. Barbara Plecko, MD
    University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75
    CH-8032 Zurich
    Switzerland