Epilepsy Currents

Epilepsy Currents is a fully open access, bimonthly current-awareness journal of the American Epilepsy Society, published by SAGE since 2019, founded in 2001, that provides reviews, commentaries and abstracts on the research and treatment of epilepsy, with a 2025 impact factor of 4.6.（Epilepsy Currents）是美国癫痫学会（American Epilepsy Society）的会刊，2019 年起由 SAGE 出版的全开放获取双月刊当前意识刊，2001 年创刊，刊载癫痫研究与治疗的综述、述评与文摘，2025 年影响因子为 4.6。

Scope

• It provides reviews, commentaries and abstracts from the world's literature on the research and treatment of epilepsy.刊载来自全球文献、关于癫痫研究与治疗的综述、述评与文摘。
• Each issue is divided into two main sections, Basic Science and Clinical Science.每期分为基础科学（Basic Science）与临床科学（Clinical Science）两大板块。
• An editorial board reviews the literature and assigns topics and articles to world experts for comment.编委会筛读文献，将选题与文章指派给全球专家点评。
• The editors also commission authoritative review articles on important subjects.编辑还就重要主题约请权威综述。
• It surveys and comments on important research and developments in a format that is easy to read and reference.以易于阅读和引用的形式，概览并评论重要研究与进展。

History

• It was founded in 2001 by the American Epilepsy Society as a current-awareness review journal and has never changed its name.该刊 2001 年由美国癫痫学会创办，定位为当前意识型综述刊，没有曾用名。
• Its four founding editors were the clinical scientists Gregory K. Bergey and Susan S. Spencer and the basic scientists Robert L. Macdonald and Michael A. Rogawski.其四位创始编辑为临床科学家 Gregory K. Bergey 与 Susan S. Spencer，以及基础科学家 Robert L. Macdonald 与 Michael A. Rogawski。
• It was first published by Blackwell Science, later by the American Epilepsy Society with the assistance of Allen Press, and since 2019 by SAGE Publications.最初由 Blackwell Science 出版，其后由美国癫痫学会在 Allen Press 协助下出版，2019 年起由 SAGE Publications 出版。
• A special article marked its twentieth anniversary in 2020.2020 年该刊有专文纪念创刊二十周年。^[1]
• It is a bimonthly journal, fully open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, with content also on EpilepsyCurrents.org and in PubMed Central.该刊为双月刊，全刊在 CC BY-NC-ND 许可下完全开放获取，内容亦发布于 EpilepsyCurrents.org 与 PubMed Central。
• Its 2025 impact factor is 4.6, while the publisher's page still shows the 2024 Journal Citation Reports value of 6.3.其 2025 年影响因子为 4.6，而出版方页面仍显示 2024 年 JCR 值 6.3。

Editors

• The journal has no single editor-in-chief and instead uses a Senior Editors system.本刊现不设单一主编，采用资深编辑（Senior Editors）制。
• The senior editor for basic science is Steve C. Danzer of Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the senior editor for clinical science is Katherine Nickels of the Mayo Clinic.基础科学资深编辑为 Steve C. Danzer，任职于辛辛那提儿童医院，临床科学资深编辑为 Katherine Nickels，任职于梅奥诊所。
• The associate editors are Matthew Weston of Virginia Tech for basic science and Dario J. Englot of Vanderbilt University Medical Center for clinical science, and Adriana C. Bermeo-Ovalle of Rush University Medical Center is the senior podcast editor.副编辑为基础科学的 Matthew Weston（弗吉尼亚理工）与临床科学的 Dario J. Englot（范德堡大学医学中心），资深播客编辑为 Adriana C. Bermeo-Ovalle（拉什大学医学中心）。
• There are about thirty-five contributing editors in basic science and about thirty-six in clinical science, drawn mainly from the United States and also from Canada, Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom and Ireland.基础科学约三十五位、临床研究约三十六位供稿编辑，国别以美国为主，兼有加拿大、澳大利亚、以色列、英国与爱尔兰。
• The founding editors were Robert L. Macdonald and Michael A. Rogawski in basic science and Susan S. Spencer and Gregory K. Bergey in clinical science.创始编辑为基础科学的 Robert L. Macdonald 与 Michael A. Rogawski，以及临床研究的 Susan S. Spencer 与 Gregory K. Bergey。
• The journal accepts invited manuscripts only and does not accept unsolicited manuscripts, its articles are peer reviewed, and there is no article processing charge for invited authors.该刊仅接受邀稿、不接受自由来稿，文章经同行评审，受邀作者无需缴纳文章处理费。