Experimental Neurology

Experimental Neurology is a monthly neuroscience journal published by Elsevier, founded in 1959 and publishing original research with a particular emphasis on neural development, regeneration, plasticity and transplantation, with a 2025 impact factor of 4.8《实验神经病学》（Experimental Neurology）是 Elsevier 出版的月刊，1959 年创刊，刊载神经科学原创研究，尤重神经发育、再生、可塑性与移植，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。

Scope

• It publishes original research in neuroscience with a particular emphasis on novel findings in neural development, regeneration, plasticity and transplantation刊载神经科学原创研究，尤重神经发育、再生、可塑性与移植方面的新发现。
• The journal focuses on research concerning basic mechanisms underlying neurological disorders, including psychiatric disorders该刊聚焦神经系统疾病（含精神疾病）基础机制的研究。
• Article types include Research Articles, invited Commentaries of up to 3000 words, Brief Communications of up to 3000 words with one figure or table and ten references, Review Articles typically of 5000 to 6000 words and guest-edited Special Issues文章类型包括研究论文、不超过 3000 词的受邀评论、不超过 3000 词并限一个图或表与十条参考文献的短通讯、通常 5000 至 6000 词的综述以及客座主编组织的专刊。
• Authors must supply full methodological detail, listing catalogue numbers for reagents such as antibodies and primers wherever possible作者须给出充分的方法学细节，抗体与引物等试剂尽量给出货号。
• Special Issues gather reviews, and occasionally original papers, around a single neuroscience theme and are organised by invited guest editors, with proposals sent directly to the editor-in-chief专刊围绕某一神经科学主题汇集综述、偶尔也含原创论文，由受邀客座主编组织，提案直接提交主编。
• Submissions go through Elsevier's online submission system with peer review, and an article transfer service allows editors to suggest another Elsevier title投稿经 Elsevier 在线投稿系统处理并实行同行评审，文章转投服务允许编辑建议改投 Elsevier 其它刊物。

History

• The journal first appeared in 1959, with volume 1, number 1 in April 1959, carrying the subtitle a Journal of Neuroscience Research, and its early bimonthly issues are now published monthly该刊于 1959 年首次出版，第一卷第一期在 1959 年四月，副题为「a Journal of Neuroscience Research」，其早年双月刊现已成为月刊。
• It was founded by Academic Press of New York as an international journal of basic research, with William F. Windle, then chief of the Laboratory of Neuroanatomical Sciences at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, as founding editor该刊由纽约的 Academic Press 创办，定位为国际范围的基础研究期刊，首任主编为 William F. Windle，时任美国国立神经疾病与失明研究所神经解剖科学实验室主任。
• The founding publisher Academic Press later became part of Elsevier and the journal has never been renamed, with its editorial imprint moving from New York to Orlando, Florida创刊出版方 Academic Press 后并入 Elsevier，刊名从未更改，出版地由纽约迁至佛罗里达州奥兰多。
• Past editorial board members include Edward W. Dempsey, who served as an associate editor, and John R. Sladek Jr., who gave fifteen years of editorial service曾任编委包括担任副编辑的 Edward W. Dempsey 与任职编辑十五年的 John R. Sladek Jr.。^[1][2]
• Its impact factor rose from 4.2 in 2024 to 4.8 in 2025, after 5.3 in 2022 and 4.6 in 2023其影响因子由 2024 年的 4.2 升至 2025 年的 4.8，2022 年与 2023 年分别为 5.3 与 4.6。
• It remains a subscription journal with a Gold open access option priced at US$3850 before tax, and its editorial office reports a time to first decision of about eight days该刊仍为订阅制，金色开放获取选项税前定价 3850 美元，其编辑部公布投稿至首次决定约需八天。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is listed on the journal home page as Midori Yenari, MD, of the Department of Neurology at the University of California San Francisco, whose research concerns ischaemic stroke, neuroprotection and therapeutic hypothermia期刊主页所列现任主编为 Midori Yenari（医学博士），任职于旧金山加州大学神经学系，研究方向为缺血性卒中、神经保护与治疗性低温。
• Elsevier's Guide for Authors instead directs proposals to Professor Ahmet Hoke of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, so the two official pages disagree and the home page listing is the more current oneElsevier 投稿指南则将专刊提案指向 Johns Hopkins 医学院的 Ahmet Hoke 教授，两处官方页面口径不一，以期刊主页所列更为现行。
• The editorial team works with guest editors drawn from international neuroscience, including Christine N. Sang, Claire E. Hulsebosch, Samba Reddy and Detlev Boison编辑团队另与来自国际神经科学界的客座主编协同，包括 Christine N. Sang、Claire E. Hulsebosch、Samba Reddy 与 Detlev Boison。
• Manuscripts are submitted through Elsevier's online system and peer reviewed, with no pre-submission enquiry required and editorial decisions supported by an article transfer service稿件经 Elsevier 在线系统投稿并同行评审，无投稿前咨询要求，编辑决定辅以文章转投服务。
• It reports a time to first decision of about eight days, a time to decision after review of forty-six days, a time to acceptance of a hundred and three days, and a time from acceptance to online publication of two days该刊公布投稿至首次决定约八天、投稿至审后决定四十六天、投稿至接收一百零三天、以及接收至在线发表两天。
• Its particular editorial practice is the guest-editor model for special issues, with brief communications limited to 3000 words, one figure or table and ten references, and reviews generally commissioned or proposed其特有编辑方针为专刊的客座主编制，短通讯限 3000 词、一个图或表与十条参考文献，综述一般由约稿或提案产生。