Journal of Neuro-Oncology
Official Journal
Our section’s official journal is the Journal of Neuro-oncology which is a peer-reviewed medical journal with an impact factor of 4.506 and a publishing frequency of 15 times annually. Established in 1983, it is considered the oldest continuously published journal which is focused on Neuro-Oncology. It was originally published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. It is chiefly sponsored by the Tumor Section for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons and co-sponsored by the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies Section of Neuro-Oncology, the Korean Neurosurgical Society, the Chinese Society for Neuro-Oncology (CSNO), the Grupo Interdisciplinario Mexicano de Investigacion en Neuro-Oncologia, the Radiosurgery Society, the Society for NeuroOncology Latin America, the Indian Society of Neuro-Oncology, and the Taiwan Society for Neuro-Oncology (TSNO).
The current editor-in-chief is Jason P. Sheehan (University of Virginia). Previous editors include Joseph M. Piepmeier (Yale University) and Linda M. Liau (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA).
Members of the editorial board include the following:
Chief Editor: Prof. Jason Sheehan
Prof. Jason Sheehan is Professor of Neurological Surgery at UVA.In 2017 Dr. Sheehan was named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology, the premier journal for neuro-oncology publications. He has written more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and has published several books and numerous invited manuscripts. He has been serving as reviewer of the top neurological surgery journals. Dr. Sheehan has joined the Focused Ultrasound Foundation as a Senior Advisor for Brain Tumor Research.
Associate Editors
- Roger Abounader, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Eric Bouffet, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Jeffrey N. Bruce, Columbia University, New York, NY
- Linda M. Liau, Brain Research Institute, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Arjun Sahgal, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Chris Cifarelli, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Editorial Board
- Manish K. Aghi, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Manmeet Ahluwalia, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Marco Alegria, Mexico City, Mexico
- Mitchel S. Berger, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Deborah Blumenthal, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- John A. Boockvar, New York, NY, USA
- Steven Brem, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- William Broaddus, Richmond, VA, USA
- John M. Buatti, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Miguel Angel Celis, Mexico City, Mexico
- Arnab Chakravarti, Columbus, OH, USA
- Samuel Chao, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Thomas C. Chen, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Zhong-ping Chen, Guangzhou, China
- Shi-Yuan Cheng, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Christopher P. Cifarelli, Morgantown, WV, USA
- Charles S. Cobbs, San Francisco, CA, USA
- William T. Couldwell, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Sunit Das, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Lisa DeAngelis, New York, NY, USA
- Waldemar Debinski, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Franco DeMonte, Houston, TX, USA
- Francesco DiMeco, Milan, Italy
- Ian F. Dunn, Boston, MA, USA
- Gavin Dunn, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Camilo E. Fadul, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Gaetano Finocchiaro, Milan, Italy
- Atul Goel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Tejpal Gupta, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Costas G. Hadjipanayis, New York, NY, USA
- Sanford P.S. Hsu, Taipei, Taiwan
- Martin K. Hunn, Wellington, New Zealand
- Jeong-Hyun Hwang, Daegu, Korea
- Fabio Iwamoto, New York, NY, USA
- Michael D. Jenkinson, Liverpool, UK
- Randy L. Jensen, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Ulf D. Kahlert, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Ekkehard Kasper, Boston, MA, USA
- Andrew H. Kaye, Melbourne, Australia
- Soumen Khatua, Houston, TX, USA
- Dong-Gyu Kim, Seoul, Korea
- Se-Hyuk Kim, Suwon, Korea
- John J. Kresl, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Albert Lai, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Joseph L. Lasky, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Andrew B. Lassman, New York, NY, USA
- Eudocia Q. Lee, Boston, MA, USA
- Emilie Le Rhun, Lille, France
- Maciej Lesniak, Chicago, IL, USA
- Michael Lim, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Chun-Fu Lin, Taipei, Taiwan
- Pedro Lowenstein, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Marcos V.C. Maldaun, São Paulo, Brazil
- Suzana M.F. Malheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
- Akira Matsuno, Tokyo, Japan
- Gordon McComb, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Michael McDermott, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Ingo Mellinghoff, New York, NY, USA
- Dattatraya Muzumdar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Brian V. Nahed, Boston, MA, USA
- Masayuki Nitta, Tokyo, Japan
- Antonio Omuro, New York, NY, USA
- Brian Patrick O'Neill, Rochester, MN, USA
- Edward Pan, Dallas, TX, USA
- Hung-Chuan Pan, Taichung, Taiwan
- Whitney Pope, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Daniel Prevedello, Columbus, OH, USA
- Stephen Price, Cambridge, UK
- Robert M. Prins, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Raj K. Puri, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Prashant Raghavan, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Guilherme C. Ribas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Patrick Roth, Zurich, Switzerland
- Raymond Sawaya, Houston, TX, USA
- Michael Schulder, Lake Success, NY, USA
- Michael E. Sughrue, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Tarik Tihan, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Daniel M. Trifiletti, Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Hiroaki Wakimoto, Boston, MA, USA
- Ronald E. Warnick, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Katherine E. Warren, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Howard L. Weiner, New York, NY, USA
- Michael Weller, Zurich, Switzerland
- Max Wintermark, Stanford, CA, USA
- Anhua Wu, Shenyang, China
- Isaac Yang, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- William H. Yong, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Daizo Yoshida, Tokyo, Japan
- Brad Evan Zacharia, Hershey, PA, USA
- Gabriel Zada, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Jay-Jiguang Zhu, Houston, TX, USA
Editor Emeritus
- Joseph Piepmeier, New Haven, CT, USA
Social Media Editors
- Gautam Mehta, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Matthew Shepard, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstracting and Indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Science Citation Index
- MEDLINE/PubMed
- Scopus
- Embase
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- EBSCO databases
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- Elsevier Biobase
- Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings
- INIS Atomindex
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.130.[1]
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