Lifting the lid on impact and peer review

Joseph Clift; Anne Cooke; Anthony R Isles; Jeffrey W Dalley; Richard N Henson

doi:10.1177/23982128211006574

Lifting the lid on impact and peer review

Brain Neurosci Adv. 2021 Apr 11:5:23982128211006574. doi: 10.1177/23982128211006574. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Joseph Clift¹, Anne Cooke¹, Anthony R Isles², Jeffrey W Dalley^{3

4}, Richard N Henson^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ British Neuroscience Association, Bristol, UK.
² MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
³ Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

Brain and Neuroscience Advances has grown in tandem with the British Neuroscience Association's campaign to build Credibility in Neuroscience, which encourages actions and initiatives aimed at improving reproducibility, reliability and openness. This commitment to credibility impacts not only what the Journal publishes, but also how it operates. With that in mind, the Editorial Board sought the views of the neuroscience community on the peer review process, and on how they should respond to the Journal Impact Factor that will be assigned to Brain and Neuroscience Advances. In this editorial, we present the results of a survey of neuroscience researchers conducted in the autumn of 2020 and discuss the broader implications of our findings for the Journal and the neuroscience community.

Keywords: Journal impact factor; credibility in neuroscience; double-blind review; open review; peer review; responsible research metrics; transparent review.

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