Editorial Message to the Asian Journal of Neurosurgery on Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers

Asian Journal of Neurosurgery (AJNS) is the official journal of the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS). The purpose of the journal is to support and encourage young neurosurgeons, especially in Asian countries, to submit their scientific works for publication. We aim to bring the work of Asian neurosurgeons to international attention while keeping an acceptable level of quality. However, the society welcomes all neurosurgeons around the world to submit their novelty works on neurosurgery for publication in the AJNS.

AJNS was established in 2010 and continued actively with Wolters Kluwer publishing company. From 2022 onwards, the society has migrated to Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Limited for improving its submission process, including promoting the journal on web bases. We hope that the quality improvement can help AJNS in achieving an impressive impact factor (IF) soon. The society aims to achieve journal indexing in SCOPUS, MEDLINE, or DOAJ for AJNS, and in achieving that, authors can support the journal by submitting their high-quality research to us.

The journal publishes different topics of neurosurgery including neuro-oncology, neuropathology, neuroanatomy, neurovascular surgery, skull-base surgery, functional neurosurgery, neurocritical care, spinal cord and peripheral nerve diseases, neurotraumatology, interventional neuroradiology, neuro radiotherapy, pediatric neurosurgery, and epilepsy surgery. We accept various types of articles including original article, literature review, technical note, case report, and letter to the editor. The society hopes that the readers can receive information on updated and novel neurosurgical research from the accepted manuscripts.

According to the policy of AJNS, we provide “Open Access” format for the papers accepted. The benefit of being an “Open Access” journal is that it increases citation and usage, engages greater public, has a wider collaboration, and gets faster impact. The article processing charge (APC) of accepted articles is not very high, and the society extends this publishing opportunity to all young neurosurgeons who would like to add published research to the academic achievements of their career.

I hope that the renewal of AJNS with the new publishing company will make my dream come true in leading AJNS to emerge as a journal of higher quality.