Journal of Neuroinflammation

Journal of Neuroinflammation is an open access journal published by BioMed Central, founded in 2004 and devoted to the interactions between the immune system and the nervous system, indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed Central, the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and DOAJ, with a 2025 impact factor of 11.5Journal of Neuroinflammation 是 BioMed Central 出版的开放获取期刊，2004 年创刊，专注免疫系统与神经系统之间的相互作用，被 MEDLINE、PubMed Central、科学引文索引扩展版、Scopus 与 DOAJ 收录，2025 年影响因子为 11.5。

Scope

• Interactions between the immune system, particularly innate immunity, and the nervous system关注免疫系统（尤其是先天免疫）与神经系统之间的相互作用。
• Central nervous system immune mediators such as microglia and astrocytes together with their cytokines and chemokines涵盖小胶质细胞与星形胶质细胞等中枢神经系统免疫介质，以及其分泌的细胞因子与趋化因子。
• Peripheral neuro-immune interactions, T cells, monocytes, complement proteins, acute phase proteins and oxidative damage涉及外周神经-免疫互作、T 细胞、单核细胞、补体蛋白、急性期蛋白与氧化损伤。
• Drawing on pathology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, clinical medicine and epidemiology汇聚病理学、生物化学、分子生物学、遗传学、临床医学与流行病学的视角。
• Publishing research articles alongside review and commentary sections除研究论文外，还设有综述与评论栏目。

History

• The journal was founded in 2004 by Sue T. Griffin and Robert E. Mrak and published by BioMed Central该刊 2004 年由 Sue T. Griffin 与 Robert E. Mrak 创办，由 BioMed Central 出版。^[1]
• It has been open access from the outset, aiming for free and universal access to the literature该刊自创办起即为开放获取，目标是让文献免费且普遍可及。
• It publishes continuously online, one volume a year, and has never changed its title该刊在线连续出版，每年一卷，刊名从未变更。
• Monica J. Carson joined as co-editor-in-chief in 2018 and Tammy Kielian in 2024Monica J. Carson 于 2018 年、Tammy Kielian 于 2024 年先后出任共同主编。

Editors

• The co-editors-in-chief are Monica J. Carson of the University of California, Riverside, who works on microglia and glial-neuronal interactions, and Tammy Kielian of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, who studies innate immunity of the central nervous system共同主编为加州大学河滨分校的 Monica J. Carson（研究小胶质细胞与胶质-神经元互作）与内布拉斯加大学医学中心的 Tammy Kielian（研究中枢神经系统固有免疫）。
• Sue T. Griffin continues as founding and consulting editor and Robert E. Mrak as founding editorSue T. Griffin 继续担任创刊及顾问编辑，Robert E. Mrak 担任创刊编辑。
• About thirteen associate editors and roughly eighty editorial board members from many countries support the journal该刊有约 13 位副编辑与约 80 位来自多国的编委。
• Manuscripts are handled under a single anonymized model with decisions by the editors, and the journal is gold open access with an article processing charge of about 4390 US dollars稿件以单匿名方式处理，由编辑作出决定；该刊为完全开放获取，版面费约 4390 美元。