Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience is the monthly peer-reviewed journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, founded in Melbourne in 1994 and now published by Elsevier for clinicians who treat disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.《临床神经科学杂志》是澳大利亚神经外科学会的月刊与同行评审刊物，1994 年在墨尔本创刊，现由 Elsevier 出版，读者对象是诊治中枢与周围神经系统疾病的临床医师。2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• The remit is the clinical care of patients with disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system, written by neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuroradiologists, neuropathologists and orthopaedic spine surgeons.刊物的范围是中枢与周围神经系统疾病的临床诊疗，作者主要来自神经外科与神经内科，也接纳神经放射科、神经病理科和骨科脊柱外科的稿件。
• Psychiatry, otolaryngology and purely laboratory work sit outside that remit unless the link to clinical neuroscience is explicit, a boundary the journal states without hedging.精神科与耳鼻咽喉科的内容以及纯实验室研究不在范围之内，除非与临床神经科学存在明确关联，这条界线刊物写得并不含糊。
• Cerebrovascular disease takes a large share, covering ischaemic stroke and thrombolysis, aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, arteriovenous malformations, carotid stenosis and endovascular thrombectomy.脑血管病占据相当大的篇幅，涵盖缺血性卒中与溶栓、动脉瘤性蛛网膜下腔出血、动静脉畸形、颈动脉狭窄和血管内取栓。
• Neuro-oncology papers deal with glioma grading and resection, meningioma, skull base tumours, pituitary lesions and brain metastases, and with the cognitive cost of treatment.神经肿瘤论文处理胶质瘤分级与切除、脑膜瘤、颅底肿瘤、垂体病变和脑转移瘤，也关注治疗带来的认知代价。
• Epilepsy enters both as a diagnostic problem, through video-EEG and imaging work-up, and as a surgical one, through temporal and extratemporal resections and their seizure outcomes.癫痫既是诊断问题，借助视频脑电与影像评估，也是手术问题，涉及颞叶与颞外切除以及术后发作结局。
• Spinal disorders are handled by neurosurgeons and orthopaedic spine surgeons alike, from degenerative disc disease and spondylolisthesis to deformity, trauma and instrumentation.脊柱疾病由神经外科与骨科脊柱外科共同处理，从退变性椎间盘疾病、滑脱，到畸形、创伤与内固定。
• Functional work includes deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease and tremor, spinal cord stimulation for pain, and the programming difficulties that follow implantation.功能神经外科的内容包括帕金森病与震颤的脑深部电刺激、疼痛的脊髓电刺激，以及植入之后出现的程控难题。
• Trauma and neurocritical care are regular fare, running from traumatic brain injury and intracranial pressure management to decompressive craniectomy and outcome prediction.创伤与神经重症是常规内容，从创伤性脑损伤和颅内压管理，到去骨瓣减压与预后判断。
• Peripheral nerve and neuromuscular disease receive steady attention, covering entrapment neuropathies, nerve repair, myasthenia gravis and the electrophysiology that separates them.周围神经与神经肌肉疾病获得稳定关注，涉及卡压性神经病、神经修复、重症肌无力，以及用于鉴别的电生理检查。
• Infection, inflammation and demyelination arrive through meningitis, brain abscess, multiple sclerosis and the neurosurgical complications that follow immunosuppression.感染、炎症与脱髓鞘疾病经由脑膜炎、脑脓肿、多发性硬化，以及免疫抑制后的神经外科并发症进入刊物。
• Paediatric practice covers hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis, spina bifida and childhood tumours, together with the transfer of such patients into adult services.儿童相关的临床内容涵盖脑积水、颅缝早闭、脊柱裂与儿童肿瘤，也包括这类患者向成人诊疗体系的转接。
• Imaging, neurophysiology and neuropathology are treated as parts of a clinical decision rather than separate sciences, so papers tend to end with what the finding changed at the bedside.影像、神经电生理与神经病理被当作临床决策的组成部分而非独立学科，论文往往收束于某项发现改变了床旁处理的哪一步。
• The stated readership runs wider than physicians, taking in advanced practice providers, nurses and students, which shapes how much background an accepted paper has to supply.刊物声明的读者超出医师群体，还包括高级执业护理人员、护士与学生，这决定了录用论文需要交代多少背景。

History

• The first volume appeared in 1994 under the Churchill Livingstone imprint in Melbourne, its subtitle naming the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia as the body it served.第 1 卷于 1994 年在墨尔本由 Churchill Livingstone 出版，副题写明它以澳大利亚神经外科学会为依托。
• Volume 1, number 1 opened with a message from the society's president, Gavin Fabinyi, followed by an editorial from Andrew Kaye, who later served as editor-in-chief and is now listed as emeritus editor.第 1 卷第 1 期以学会主席 Gavin Fabinyi 的致辞开篇，接着是 Andrew Kaye 的社论，他后来长期担任主编，如今列名为荣休编辑。
• That opening issue set the pattern, with seizure outcomes after temporal lobectomy, a frameless stereotactic wand, intra-arterial papaverine for vasospasm and a six-case skull base chordoma series.这一期已定下格局，内容包括颞叶切除后的癫痫结局、无框架立体定向导向器、动脉内罂粟碱治疗血管痉挛，以及六例颅底脊索瘤系列。
• A review of cerebral vasospasm by Christopher Dorsch and Trevor King ran in three instalments across the first volume, a long educational format the journal has kept ever since.Christopher Dorsch 与 Trevor King 合写的脑血管痉挛综述在第 1 卷分三期刊完，这类长篇教学文体此后一直保留。
• Frequency grew in steps, with four issues in 1994, six by 1999, eight in 2005 and twelve by 2008, while the volume number still advanced one per year.期数分几步增加，1994 年为 4 期，1999 年增至 6 期，2005 年为 8 期，2008 年达到 12 期，卷号仍保持每年一卷。
• Volume 6 carried six numbers in 1999, the arrangement the National Library of Medicine still records, though the journal had moved beyond it long before that record was last revised.第 6 卷在 1999 年出满 6 期，美国国家医学图书馆至今仍照此著录，而刊物早在该记录修订之前就已走出这一格局。
• The imprint shifted from Melbourne to Edinburgh by 2000, the year the title entered MEDLINE at volume 7, number 1, with PubMed and Index Medicus dated to the same issue.出版地到 2000 年已从墨尔本转到爱丁堡，同年刊物以第 7 卷第 1 期进入 MEDLINE，PubMed 与 Index Medicus 的起算点也是这一期。
• Churchill Livingstone went through the medical publishing consolidation of the late 1990s, passing into Harcourt and then to Reed Elsevier, and the journal now carries the Elsevier name.Churchill Livingstone 经历了 1990 年代后期的医学出版整合，先归入 Harcourt，随后转入 Reed Elsevier，刊物如今直接署 Elsevier 之名。
• Volume numbering records the change of scale, one volume a year from 1994 to 2015 when volume 22 closed the run, then twelve volumes annually from volume 23 in January 2016.卷号记录了规模的跃升，1994 年至 2015 年每年一卷，第 22 卷为该序列收尾，2016 年 1 月的第 23 卷起改为每年 12 卷。
• Since 2016 each month has been a volume of its own with continuous article numbering, so a citation now runs by volume and article number rather than by page range.自 2016 年起每月自成一卷并采用连续文章编号，引用改按卷与文章号标注，不再依赖某一期内的页码范围。
• The sequence reached volume 119 in 2024, and volumes 143 to 154 cover 2026, a pace of twelve volumes a year that has now held for a decade.这一序列在 2024 年到达第 119 卷，2026 年对应第 143 至 154 卷，每年 12 卷的节奏已维持十年。
• Four bodies stand behind the title, the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, the Australian and New Zealand Society for Neuropathology, the Taiwan Neurosurgical Society and the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons.目前有四家机构为刊物背书，即澳大利亚神经外科学会、澳大利亚与新西兰神经病理学会、台湾神经外科医学会和亚洲澳大拉西亚神经外科医师学会。
• Indexing settled in Science Citation Index Expanded across two Journal Citation Reports categories, clinical neurology and neurosciences, and the 2025 ranking places the journal 201st of 296 in the first.收录格局稳定在 Science Citation Index Expanded，并在《期刊引证报告》中占据临床神经病学与神经科学两个类目，2025 年在临床神经病学类 296 种刊物中列第 201 位。
• The impact factor has stayed near 2 for five years, at 1.961 in 2021, 2.116 in 2022, then 1.9, 1.8 and 1.9, with a five-year figure of 1.9 for 2025.影响因子五年来一直贴近 2，2021 年为 1.961，2022 年升至 2.116，随后为 1.9、1.8 与 1.9，2025 年的五年影响因子为 1.9。
• Total citations approach 12,400 with a cited half-life of 7.5 years, and roughly 470 items appear each year, most of them clinical research rather than reviews.总被引接近 1.24 万次，被引半衰期为 7.5 年，年发文约 470 篇，其中多数为临床研究而非综述。
• Access stays subscription based with a hybrid open-access option, and gold open access accounts for about a tenth of recent output.访问仍以订阅为主，另设混合开放获取选项，金色开放获取论文约占近年发文的一成。

Editors

• Charles Y. Liu, a professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, holds the editor-in-chief position.主编为 Charles Y. Liu，他在洛杉矶的南加州大学神经外科系任教授。
• A 2016 editorial of his described the title as a forum where the clinical neurosciences could speak to one another, which matches the range of subjects it accepts.他在 2016 年的一篇社论中把刊物描述为临床神经科学各分支相互对话的论坛，这与刊物接纳的题材范围吻合。^[1]
• Neurosurgery has a designated editor of its own, Kate Drummond of Parkville, Melbourne, so the largest single stream of submissions has a specialist reader.神经外科方向设有专任编辑，即墨尔本帕克维尔的 Kate Drummond，投稿量最大的这条线因此有专人审读。
• Drummond also wrote, with Gail Rosseau, the 2021 introduction to a Women's History Month collection on the history of women in neurosurgery.她还在 2021 年与 Gail Rosseau 合写导言，为妇女历史月专辑揭幕，该专辑的主题是女性神经外科医师的历史。^[2]
• Editorial responsibilities follow clinical discipline, and the masthead lists a neurosurgery editor next to the editor-in-chief.编辑分工沿临床学科展开，编委名单在主编旁边列出神经外科编辑。
• Manuscripts arrive through Elsevier's Editorial Manager site, and the guide for authors lists original research, case series, reports and correspondence as the accepted forms.稿件经 Elsevier 的 Editorial Manager 系统提交，作者指南列出的文体包括原创研究、病例系列、报告与通信。
• Correspondence is printed as a matter of course, which keeps published papers open to challenge in the same pages where they appeared.通信栏目照常刊出，已发表论文因此仍可在同一份刊物上受到质疑。
• The editor-in-chief works from California while the neurosurgery editor works from Melbourne, a split that suits the journal's claim to authors and readers practising around the world.主编在加州办公，神经外科编辑在墨尔本办公，这种分工与刊物所称作者和读者遍布世界各地的定位相称。
• Signed commentary on professional questions also appears, such as Leon Lai's 2024 piece asking whether training in open cerebrovascular surgery needs to be rethought.刊物还刊出针对行业问题的署名评论，例如 Leon Lai 在 2024 年撰文追问开放脑血管手术的训练是否需要重新设计。^[3]