Pediatric Neurology Briefs

About

Focus and Scope

Mission

Mission

Pediatric Neurology Briefs is a peer-reviewed, Open Access, journal designed to expedite and facilitate the review of current scientific research and advances in child neurology and related subjects. The Contributing Editors provide detailed summaries of published articles, followed by commentaries based on their experience and corroborated by appropriate supplementary citations.

Pediatric Neurology Briefs provides pediatric neurologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators and other health professionals with a detailed reference guide to the diagnosis, etiology, pathology, treatment and prognosis of nervous diseases of infants, children and adolescents. Content is intended to be accessible to readers in any medical discipline.

Journal History

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, a continuous review of the current literature, has been published without interruption for more than 25 years. The journal was originally launched in London, England, in 1987 while the founding editor was on sabbatical as honorary consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The editorial department is now based in Chicago, Illinois.

Beginning in 2012, Pediatric Neurology Briefs is a Publishing Partner with both the World Health Organization's HINARI Program and EIFL. These services provide equitable online access to the major journals in biomedical sciences for eligible not-for-profit health institutions and libraries. PNB is now available through HINARI and EIFL in more than 100 developing countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.

In 2015, Pediatric Neurology Briefs was relaunched as an open access (OA) journal with an expanded editorial board.

Journals Reviewed

The specialty of Pediatric Neurology bridges not only pediatrics and neurology but also neuropsychology, neurophysiology and epilepsy, neurosurgery and other related disciplines. Journals of various specialties are researched monthly for the selection of articles included in Pediatric Neurology Briefs.

Pediatric Neurology Briefs has reviewed and referenced over 200 journals since inception.

An edited selection of journals reviewed or referenced in the 2011 issues of PNB are listed below in order of frequency.

Neurology
Annals of Neurology
Pediatrics
Epilepsia
Pediatric Neurology
Brain
Brain & Development
Archives of Neurology (JAMA Neurology)
Epilepsy and Behavior
Journal of Pediatrics
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Journal of the American Medical Association
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
BioMed Neurology
Child’s Nervous System
Neurosurgery
New England Journal of Medicine
Archives of General Psychiatry
Headache
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Lancet
Lancet Neurology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Acta Ophthalmology
American Journal of Diseases of Children
American Journal of Epidemiology
American Journal of Medical Genetics
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Journal of Roentgenology
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Clinical Electroencephalography
Current Opinions Neurology
Current Treatment Options Neurology
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
Epilepsy Research
European Journal of Pediatrics
Human Molecular Genetics
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of Child Neurology
Journal of Headache Pain
Journal of Medical Genetics
Medicine
Nature
Neurobiological Disorders
Neurological Research
Neuropsychiatric Genetics
Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine
Radiology
Spinal Cord
Stroke

Subject Areas

Pediatric Neurology Briefs covers a comprehensive group of subject areas related to progress in pediatric neurology. An edited selection of these topics is provided below.

Seizure Disorders
Febrile Seizures
Paroxysmal Disorders
Antiepileptic Medications
Headache Disorders
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
Behavior Disorders
Learning And Cognitive Disorders
Language Disorders
Sleep Disorders
Movement Disorders
Neuromuscular Disorders
Peripheral Neuropathies
Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Cerebellar Ataxias
Infectious / Autoimmune Disorders
Metabolic Disorders
Demyelinating Diseases
Heredo-Degenerative Disorders
Vascular Disorders
CNS Malformations
CNS Neoplasms
Developmental Disorders
Mental Retardation Syndromes
Prenatal Disorders
Perinatal Disorders
Neonatal Disorders
Traumatic Disorders
Nutritional Disorders
Electroencephalography
Neuroimaging

Publication Frequency

The journal is published online as a continuous volume throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.

Archiving Policy

The journal’s publisher, Pediatric NeurologyBriefs Publishers, focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability.

Pediatric Neurology Briefs is indexed by the following services:

PubMed, Pubmed Central (PMC), EBSCOHost, Google Scholar, Academic Search, NLM, ScienceCentral, HINARI, EIFL, Paperity, WorldCat and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

PNB is listed with SHERPA RoMEO and CrossRef.

If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please let us know by email or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service.

We encourage research librarians to list this journal among their library's electronic journal holdings. Librarians, please find full indexing information here.

A digital repository at the editors' home academic institution (DigitalHub) will retain archive copies of article JATS 1.0 XML and PDF files for preservation. In addition, the journal full text is archived at Pubmed Central and ScienceCentral.

PNB uses Open Journal Systems publishing platform which is able to utilize the LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration. LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit (Publisher Manifest).

PNB is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH and is a registered data provider with the Open Archives Initiative, WorldCat Digital Gateway, and BASE.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers, the journal’s publisher, recognises its responsibility as a guardian of the scholarly record and takes an active role in establishing standards and policies in publication ethics.

The Editors have committed to maintaining high editorial standards through rigorous peer review and strict ethical policies. The Editors follow the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editorial process regarding issues of publication ethics and publication malpractice will follow the ICJME Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals.

- Final decisions regarding manuscript publication are made by the Editor or a designated editor who does not have any relevant conflicts of interest. In the event that the Editor has a conflict of interest with a submitted manuscript or with the authors, the manuscript, review, and editorial decisions are managed by another designated Associate Editor without a conflict of interest related to the manuscript.

- Editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. In no case shall Editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that the journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately.

- The journal should have guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed.

- Publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Advertisement policy

The journal only displays advertisements that are of relevance to its scope and will be of interest to the readership (e.g. upcoming conferences). All advertising space is provided free of charge and the editor and publisher have the right to decline or withdraw adverts at any point.
If you wish to propose a potential advert then please contact the editorial team. All adverts are displayed in the right column of the journal and will need to fit a 120 pixel wide space. All advert images will have to be provided to the publisher.

Information for Librarians

Journal Title:	Pediatric Neurology Briefs
ISO Abbrevation:	Pediatr Neurol Briefs
Title Variations:	Pediatr Neurol Briefs, Ped Neur Briefs, PNB
Frequency:	Published online as a continuous volume
Founded:	1987
First Issue:	Vol. 1, No. 1: June 1987
Publisher:	Chicago, IL : Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
Circulation:	International
Language:	English
Acid-Free:	Yes
Publication Type:	Periodical
ISSN:	1043-3155 (print) 2166-6482 (online)
WorldCat OCLC:	19417722 (print) 781441925 (online)
NLM ID:	9889575 [Serial]
DNLM:	SR0084303(s)
LCCN:	sn 89007191
Electronic Links:	http://www.pediatricneurologybriefs.com/
DDC:	616.8 - Diseases of the Nervous System
LCC:	RJ1
NLM:	W1
MeSH:	Neurology* Pediatrics* Child Development* Nervous System Diseases* Brain Diseases* Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood* Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity* Neurosurgery* Seizures* Epilepsy* Child* Infant* Growth*
Subscription Address:	Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers PO Box 11391, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

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Pediatric Neurology Briefs | 1987-2015: Ped Neur Briefs