Epilepsy & Behavior Reports

Epilepsy & Behavior Reports is a fully open-access English journal from Elsevier given to epilepsy and the behaviour that travels with it, issued from New York since 2019 as the sister of Epilepsy & Behavior. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, Q3 in Clinical Neurology at 201 of 296.《Epilepsy & Behavior Reports》是 Elsevier 出版的完全开放获取英文期刊，专注癫痫以及与之相伴的行为问题，2019 年起在纽约发行，是《Epilepsy & Behavior》的姊妹刊。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在临床神经病学类目列 Q3，排名 201/296。

Two features separate it from the parent title. One is a gold open-access model with no subscription barrier at all. The other is a standing welcome for case reports and short communications, the material Epilepsy & Behavior stopped taking in 2012.有两处把它与母刊区分开。一是完全的金色开放获取，没有任何订阅门槛。二是长期接纳病例报告与短篇通讯，而这类稿件正是《Epilepsy & Behavior》自 2012 年起不再接收的。

Scope

• The aims describe a journal built around the two-way traffic between seizures and behaviour, and they ask for work that reads the disorder whole instead of splitting neurology from psychiatry.宗旨写的是一份围绕发作与行为双向关系搭建的期刊，要求来稿把这一疾病当作整体来看，不把神经病学与精神病学切开。
• Clinical epileptology takes the largest share, running from seizure semiology and classification through the diagnostic pathway for a first seizure to the long-term course of treated epilepsy.临床癫痫学占的份额最大，从发作症状学与分类，经首次发作的诊断路径，一直到治疗之后的长期病程。
• Electroencephalography and imaging form the diagnostic spine, covering routine and long-term video telemetry, high-density recordings, and magnetic resonance protocols built to find a lesion in focal epilepsy.脑电图与影像构成诊断的骨干，涵盖常规与长程视频监测、高密度记录，以及为发现局灶性癫痫病灶而设计的磁共振序列。
• Antiseizure medication is treated as a behavioural subject as much as a pharmacological one, with adherence, adverse cognitive effects, withdrawal and the management of drug-resistant epilepsy all in view.抗癫痫发作药物既按药理学题目处理，也按行为题目处理，依从性、对认知的不良影响、撤药，以及耐药性癫痫的处理都在视野之内。
• Surgical topics include presurgical evaluation, resective and disconnective procedures, and the neurostimulation options, vagus nerve, deep brain and responsive systems, that follow once resection is judged unsafe.外科题目包括术前评估、切除与离断手术，以及判定切除不安全之后启用的神经调控手段，即迷走神经、脑深部与闭环刺激系统。
• Age-specific epilepsy has its own place, from infantile spasms and developmental encephalopathies to seizures in later life, where comorbidity and polypharmacy complicate both diagnosis and treatment.年龄相关的癫痫单列一席，从婴儿痉挛与发育性脑病，到晚年发作，后者因共病与多重用药让诊断和治疗都变复杂。
• Psychiatric comorbidity and cognition run through the journal, taking in depression, anxiety, the psychoses of epilepsy, memory decline and the neuropsychological testing that measures each of them.精神共病与认知贯穿全刊，抑郁、焦虑、癫痫性精神病、记忆减退，以及测量这些状态的神经心理测验都收在此处。
• Quality of life and stigma are handled as outcomes in their own right, through validated scales, interviews and qualitative work on how seizures alter work, schooling and marriage.生活质量与病耻感被当作独立的结局来看，借助量表、访谈与质性研究，考察发作如何改变工作、学业与婚姻。
• Safety covers sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, seizure-related injury, drowning and driving, and the counselling that ought to follow a first convulsion in an adolescent.安全议题涵盖癫痫猝死、发作相关外伤、溺水与驾驶，以及青少年首次全面性发作之后应当给出的告知与咨询。
• Case reports and small series remain the founding strength, and the journal asks for a clear teaching point rather than novelty alone, so an unusual semiology or a rare adverse effect can carry a paper.病例报告与小样本系列仍是立刊的强项，刊物要求来稿给出明确的教学要点，不只看新奇，罕见的症状学或罕见的不良反应都能支撑一篇论文。
• Nursing and caregiver research appears regularly, taking in seizure first aid, rescue medication in schools, caregiver burden and the training of non-specialist staff in settings short of neurologists.护理与照护者研究经常出现，涉及发作急救、校内救援用药、照护负担，以及缺少神经科医生的地区对非专科人员的培训。
• Health services work covers waiting times for specialist review, telemedicine for rural clinics, the cost of treatment and the gap in epilepsy care between rich and poor countries.卫生服务研究覆盖专科就诊的等待时间、面向乡村诊所的远程医疗、治疗费用，以及富国与穷国之间的癫痫诊疗差距。
• Epidemiology and aetiology arrive through population studies, and genetic findings are read for what they change in counselling rather than for molecular detail on its own.流行病学与病因学经由人群研究进入，遗传学发现按其对咨询的实际改变来解读，不单看分子层面的细节。
• Behaviour in the narrow sense keeps a section of its own, from peri-ictal aggression and postictal psychosis to the social consequences that families report years after a diagnosis.狭义的行为研究另有一块，从发作期前后的攻击行为与发作后精神病，到确诊多年之后家庭报告的社会后果。

History

• The line begins in 2012, when Epilepsy & Behavior closed its pages to case reports and began redirecting such submissions to a sister title being prepared at the same publisher.这条线起于 2012 年，即《Epilepsy & Behavior》对病例报告关上版面、把这类来稿转向同一出版方正在筹办的姊妹刊的那一年。
• Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports opened in 2013 under ISSN 2213-3232, and its first volume carried 41 items, a size unusual for a journal of clinical cases.《Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports》于 2013 年创刊，连续出版物号为 2213-3232，第 1 卷即刊出 41 篇，这样的体量在临床病例类刊物里并不常见。
• Volumes 1 to 11 ran from 2013 to 2019, two volumes a year from 2015 onward, and volume 2 alone had 56 items in 2014.第 1 卷至第 11 卷覆盖 2013 年至 2019 年，2015 年起改为每年两卷，第 2 卷在 2014 年就收了 56 篇。
• The title changed to Epilepsy & Behavior Reports in 2019 with the electronic ISSN 2589-9864, and the volume count ran on at 12 instead of starting again from one.2019 年刊名改为《Epilepsy & Behavior Reports》，启用电子版号 2589-9864，卷号接着排到第 12 卷，没有从第 1 卷重新起算。
• The new name dropped the word Case and widened the remit, so original studies and reviews now share the pages with the clinical cases that founded the journal.新名去掉了病例一词，范围随之放宽，原创研究与综述如今与当年立刊的临床病例同处一卷。
• Issues have gone altogether. Each of the 562 records deposited with Crossref so far carries a volume but no issue number, and articles are cited by article number rather than by page range.期号已完全取消，迄今在 Crossref 登记的 562 条记录只带卷号不带期号，论文以文章编号引用，不再标注起止页码。
• Volume growth tells the same story. Four volumes appeared in 2023, four more in 2024 and four in 2025, each closing once its batch of articles was complete.卷次的增速印证这一点，2023 年出四卷，2024 年四卷，2025 年又是四卷，每卷攒够一批文章便告结束。
• By the autumn of 2026 volumes 33 to 36 were already in use, which puts the title at roughly four volumes a year on a rolling basis.到 2026 年秋，第 33 卷至第 36 卷已陆续启用，全年折算接近四卷。
• The national library record still gives the frequency as semiannual, a label that predates the move to article-based publishing and no longer matches the flow of volumes.国家医学图书馆的记录仍把刊期写作半年刊，这一标注早于连续出版改制，与如今的卷次节奏已不相符。
• PubMed has indexed the journal from volume 12 onward, the first volume under the present name, and full texts sit in PubMed Central, though MEDLINE itself has not taken the title.PubMed 自第 12 卷起收录，也就是现名下的第一卷，全文进 PubMed Central，MEDLINE 本身尚未收录该刊。
• Clarivate files it under the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the Science Citation Index Expanded, which is why the title carries an impact factor without a MEDLINE listing.Clarivate 把它列在新兴来源引文索引，不在科学引文索引扩展版之内，这份刊物因此有影响因子却没有 MEDLINE 收录。
• The impact factor stood at 1.8 for 2023, slipped to 1.5 for 2024 and recovered to 1.9 for 2025, when the rank was 201 of 296 in Clinical Neurology.影响因子 2023 年为 1.8，2024 年落到 1.5，2025 年回到 1.9，同年排名临床神经病学 296 种中的第 201 位。
• Output reached 89 papers in 2025, the whole run has drawn 739 citations, and the cited half-life stands at 3.3 years, short in keeping with a young title.2025 年发文 89 篇，全刊累计被引 739 次，引用半衰期 3.3 年，对一份年轻刊物而言这个长度合乎常理。
• Access has been gold from the first volume, every 2025 article is open under a Creative Commons licence, and the title is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.获取方式自创刊卷起就是金色，2025 年的每一篇都以知识共享许可开放，刊物也列在开放获取期刊目录中。
• Elsevier Inc. of New York appears as the imprint from 2019, and the national library files the title under the United States, which matches the address on the deposits.2019 年起的刊记写作纽约的 Elsevier Inc.，国家医学图书馆把该刊归在美国名下，与登记材料上的地址一致。
• The two titles share a subject list but not a volume sequence, and a paper declined by the elder journal can be offered a transfer to the reports title with its reviews attached.两份刊物共用一份学科清单，卷次各自独立，母刊退掉的稿件可以连同评审意见一起转投这份报告类刊物。

Editors

• Editorial business runs through Elsevier's New York office, and both submission and correspondence start from the entry points on the journal's own home page.编辑事务由 Elsevier 的纽约办公室经手，投稿与通信都从刊物主页的入口进入。
• Manuscripts enter through the publisher's online submission system, so a paper keeps one record from first upload through revision to the final decision.稿件从出版方的在线投稿系统进入，一份论文从首次上传到修回直至终审都留在同一条记录里。
• The journal declares itself peer reviewed, and acceptance rests on referees' reports rather than on the editorial office alone, a point its guide for authors states plainly.刊物声明实行同行评审，录用取决于评审人的报告，编辑办公室并不单独定夺，作者指南对此写得直白。
• Handling is organised by subject, so a submission on surgical technique and one on caregiver burden are unlikely to share the same editor or the same referees.稿件按学科分派，讨论手术技术的来稿与讨论照护负担的来稿，通常不会落到同一位编辑或同一组评审人手里。
• Article types carry their own routes. Original research and reviews go to full review, while case reports are weighed chiefly for their teaching value and the soundness of the clinical record.不同文体走不同路径，原创研究与综述进入完整评审，病例报告主要按教学价值与临床记录的可靠性衡量。
• Case reports must carry patient consent and be anonymised to the standard the publisher requires, and a submission that lacks consent is not sent out for review.病例报告须附患者知情同意，并按出版方的要求做匿名处理，缺少知情同意的稿件不会送外审。
• The board is international in make-up, and its spread follows the subject list rather than a single subspecialty, with adult and paediatric epileptology sitting beside neuropsychology and imaging.编委由多国学者组成，分布顺着学科清单铺开，不集中在单一亚专科，成人癫痫与儿童癫痫之外还有神经心理学与影像的位置。
• Themed collections have become a regular device. Guest editors assemble sets of papers around a single question, and the call for papers names the editors who will handle them.主题专辑已成常规手法，客座编辑围绕单一问题组织一组论文，征稿启事会写明由谁处理这些稿件。
• Authors send the complete manuscript rather than a proposal, and the question of fit is settled at the first editorial screen instead of in a preliminary exchange of letters.作者直接提交完整稿件，不提交选题设想，是否合乎范围在初审环节判定，不靠事先的往返通信。
• Papers declined at Epilepsy & Behavior can be transferred with their reviews, and the reports title keeps that channel open for case material the parent will not take.在《Epilepsy & Behavior》被退的稿件可以连同评审意见一起转来，这份报告类刊物为母刊不接的病例材料留着这条通道。