Chair: Jason Sheehan, MD
Recently, JNO reached its 40-year milestone of continuous publications. The JNO maintains the support of 12 organizations (see below) of which the AANS and CNS Tumor Section was its founding organization. The other organizations contribute to JNO and use it for a variety of purposes such as journal club, leading special collections, etc.
a variety of purposes such as journal club, leading special collections, etc.
JNO is truly an international journal with submissions from across the globe. The distribution of accepted works is
Springer has broad Institutional Open Access Agreements called “Transformative Agreements” with many institutions and countries. Covered countries and institutions now include the following: University of California, Austria, Australia and New Zealand, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Columbia, Canada, Sweden, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Egypt, Finland, Portugal, Poland, South Africa, Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Commonwealth of Virginia and the UK. Thus, if published in JNO, your work originating from one of these institutions qualifies for open-access publication with any open-access fees covered by the publisher’s agreement. This is distinctly different from other journals in this space. Please see the following link for more details. Institutional agreements | Open research | Springer Nature Open access allows your JNO publication to be more easily accessed by clinicians and researchers thereby enhancing its visibility.
Current JNO special collections are underway including one on pituitary adenomas led by Dr. Gab Zada and one about innovation and technology in neurosurgical oncology by Drs. Germano and Cifarelli. New special collections are getting underway on spinal oncology with the Brown University team and molecular diagnostics by the Sunnybrook team.
Drs. Shepard and Dr. Mehta continue to lead the JNO Social Media channels. Be sure to follow JNO’s Social Media on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for the latest updates.
Also, JNO is including more visual abstracts to submissions. These can also be deployed on social media channels to raise awareness of the works published in JNO.
Thank you for the tremendous efforts provided by our outstanding reviewers, editorial board members and associate editors.
Please contact me with your recommendations and suggestions for JNO. Involvement as a reviewer or special collection editor is welcomed. I can be reached at jsheehan@virginia.edu.