Neurosurgical Focus

Neurosurgical Focus is an online-only monthly journal of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons that takes one topic in neurosurgery and treats it in depth in each issue. It appeared first in July 1996 and has been free to read since it began, and its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.《神经外科焦点》是美国神经外科医师协会的纯电子月刊，每期选取神经外科的一个主题作深入处理。该刊创刊号为 1996 年 7 月，自创办起即可免费阅读，其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal covers a different topic in neurosurgery in depth every month, so that each issue reads as a single study of one subject.该刊每月深入讨论神经外科的一个不同主题，使每一期读起来都是对单一主题的完整研究。

• Each peer-reviewed issue is presented as a state-of-the-art textbook chapter in the field, which sets a high bar for the selection of the material inside it.每一期同行评审的刊物都被呈现为该领域一份最新水准的教科书式篇章，这为其中材料的选择立下了很高的标准。

• Colour images and video clips enhance the articles, and the visual record of an operation is treated as part of the scientific content rather than as an illustration.彩色图像与视频片段充实了文章，手术的影像记录被当作科学内容的一部分，而不只是插图。

• The journal has been open access since it began, and it has always been free to the public.该刊自创办起就是开放获取，并且始终向公众免费。

• Continuing medical education credit may be claimed for its articles, free of charge for members of the association.其文章可以申请继续医学教育学分，协会会员免费。

• The journal is described as a preview forum for selected articles that will appear in the Journal of Neurosurgery, so the two titles work in step.该刊被描述为一个预读论坛，用于呈现将刊于《神经外科杂志》的选定文章，两份刊物因此协同运作。

• Topics are gathered by guest editors who commission a set of papers and write an introduction that frames the state of the question.各期主题由客座编辑组织，他们约集一组论文，并撰写一篇导言为问题的现状定框。

• Because a whole issue is built around one subject, a reader can follow a single clinical problem from technique through to outcome in one sitting.由于整期围绕一个主题构成，读者可以一次就把一个临床问题从技术追到结果读完。

• Issues have taken up subjects such as the surgical management of high-grade gliomas, artificial intelligence in neurosurgical care and the complications of spine surgery.各期讨论过的题目包括高级别胶质瘤的手术处理，神经外科照护中的人工智能，以及脊柱手术的并发症。

• A single-article special issue may also appear, in which several cases of the same kind are set side by side with the lessons drawn from them.该刊也会出版单篇专号，把同类若干病例并置，并给出从中得到的经验。

• The journal publishes original works in neurosurgery, and it takes in studies from clinical neurophysiology, neurology, radiology, pathology and molecular biology where they bear on surgical practice.该刊发表神经外科的原创工作，也接收临床神经生理学，神经病学，放射学，病理学与分子生物学中与外科实践相关的研究。

• Each issue opens with an introduction from its guest editors, so a reader is told what the issue sets out to answer before the papers begin.每一期以客座编辑的导言开篇，读者在论文开始之前就知道这一期要回答什么。

• The journal takes articles that report both on technique and on outcome, which keeps a clinical readership in view throughout.该刊接收既报告技术又报告结果的论文，这使临床读者始终在视野之内。

• Video material is submitted with many papers and is published alongside the text, so that an operation can be watched as well as read about.许多论文随附视频材料并与正文一同发表，因此一台手术既可以被读到，也可以被看到。

• Because each issue stands on its own, the journal is used as a teaching resource in training programmes as well as a record of current practice.由于每一期自成一体，该刊既被用作培训项目中的教学资源，也被当作当前实践的记录。

• Subscriptions are not required of readers, and the association instead recovers the cost of the title through its publishing programme.读者无需订阅，协会通过其出版计划回收这份刊物的成本。

History

• The first issue appeared in July 1996, and the journal marked its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2021.创刊号出现于 1996 年 7 月，该刊在 2021 年举办了创刊二十五周年纪念。

• It was an early member of the group of online-only journals that have always been freely accessible to the public, at a time when most scientific titles were still sold on paper.在多数科学刊物仍以纸质销售的时代，该刊是那批始终向公众免费开放的纯电子期刊中的早期成员。

• The founding editor-in-chief was (Martin Weiss), and the title passed to (William T. Couldwell) in 2016.创刊主编是（Martin Weiss），2016 年该刊交由（William T. Couldwell）主持。

• (Fred G. Barker II) of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital is the editor-in-chief, and he took up the leadership of the publishing group in April 2025.（Fred G. Barker II）任职于哈佛医学院与麻省总医院，是该刊主编，并于 2025 年 4 月接手出版集团的领导工作。

• The journal is published by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons through its Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group.该刊由美国神经外科医师协会通过其《神经外科杂志》出版集团出版。

• It carries a single number, 1092-0684, which is issued as an electronic identifier, and no print edition is produced.该刊只有一个刊号 1092-0684，作为电子标识发布，并不出版印本。

• Volume 60 was reached in 2026, so twelve issues have been added in each of the recent years.2026 年出到第 60 卷，近几年每年增加十二期。

• The National Library of Medicine indexes the title for MEDLINE from volume 8 number 1 in January 2000, and Index Medicus carries it as well.美国国立医学图书馆自 2000 年 1 月的第 8 卷第 1 期起把该刊收录进 MEDLINE，Index Medicus 也予以收录。

• The 2025 impact factor is 3.3, the five-year figure is 4.0, and the title stands in the first quartile of surgery.该刊 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 4.0，位于外科的第一象限。

• The 2025 snapshot records more than ten thousand citations, 147 articles and a cited half-life of 8.7 years.2025 年的快照记录总被引超过一万次，年发文 147 篇，被引半衰期为 8.7 年。

• Nearly every article in the same snapshot was open access, a share that few titles of its age can match.在同一份快照中，几乎每一篇文章都是开放获取，这一比例少有同辈刊物能及。

• The association announced that from January 2027 its publishing group would work with Oxford University Press, with the group remaining an association enterprise and editorial independence kept intact.协会宣布自 2027 年 1 月起其出版集团将与牛津大学出版社合作，集团仍属协会所有，编辑独立性保持不变。

• The title is one of six journals in the association's publishing group, and it shares its editorial office with the Journal of Neurosurgery.该刊是协会出版集团六份期刊之一，它与《神经外科杂志》共用编辑部。

• The association describes the group as the scholarly publishing arm of an organisation whose mission is to advance the practice of neurosurgery worldwide.协会把出版集团描述为其学术出版分支，该组织的使命是在全球推进神经外科实践。

• Anniversary issues have looked back at the state of the specialty while still carrying new work, so the journal keeps a record of its own field as well as adding to it.纪念专号在回顾本专业现状的同时仍刊载新工作，因此该刊既记录自己的领域，也为其添砖加瓦。

Editors

• (Fred G. Barker II) is editor-in-chief, and he holds posts at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he directs cranial base surgery.（Fred G. Barker II）是该刊主编，在哈佛医学院与麻省总医院任职，并主管颅底外科。

• He also leads the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group, which carries the association's six journals.他还领导《神经外科杂志》出版集团，该集团承载协会的六份期刊。

• (Martin Weiss) was the founding editor-in-chief, and the title he set up has kept his model of a single-subject issue.（Martin Weiss）是创刊主编，他奠定的单主题各期模式一直沿用至今。

• (William T. Couldwell) of the University of Utah held the editor-in-chief post from 2016 and also edits the video companion title.（William T. Couldwell）任职于犹他大学，自 2016 年起担任主编，同时主编配套的视频刊物。

• Each issue is assembled by topic editors, and a spine issue was put together by (Paul Park) and (Juan Uribe) with (Tokumi Kanemura) and (Dean Chou).每期由主题编辑组织，其中一期脊柱专号由（Paul Park）与（Juan Uribe）会同（Tokumi Kanemura）与（Dean Chou）编排。

• Guest editors of the topical issues write the introduction, so the framing of each subject comes from working surgeons.专题各期的客座编辑撰写导言，因此每个主题的定框来自一线外科医师。

• A spine research group under (Praveen Mummaneni) contributed a set of analyses to one of the spine issues.（Praveen Mummaneni）领导的一个脊柱研究小组为一期脊柱专号提供了若干分析。

• The board draws its members from neurosurgical departments in the United States and abroad, and the association's committees take part in choosing the editors-in-chief.编委会成员来自美国国内外的神经外科科室，协会的委员会参与主编的遴选。

• Articles are submitted through the association's own editorial system, which also handles the video material that accompanies many papers.稿件通过协会自有的编辑系统投递，该系统也处理许多论文所附的视频材料。

• The journal states that its issues are peer reviewed before they appear, and the review is carried out within the topic editor structure of each issue.该刊声明各期在出版前经过同行评审，评审在每期的主题编辑架构内完成。

• The editorial board is drawn from neurosurgical departments in several countries, and its members take part in the selection of the topic editors.编委会成员来自若干国家的神经外科科室，并参与主题编辑的遴选。

• Readers who are not members of the association still reach the articles without charge, since the title carries no paywall.即使不是协会会员的读者也可以免费读到这些文章，因为该刊不设付费墙。