Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has partnered with the Chinese Stroke Association to produce a new open access journal, Stroke and Vascular Neurology. The journal, which represents BMJ’s first joint publishing venture in the People’s Republic of China, will be owned by the Chinese Stroke Association (CSA), but published by BMJ.
Stroke and Vascular Neurology will officially launch in February 2016, with Professor Yongjun Wang, of Tiantan Hospital in Beijing, as its editor in chief.
Stroke and Vascular Neurology will be the official journal of the CSA, one of China’s leading professional medical organisations. It will have a global focus, facilitated by an international editorial board, drawing on expertise from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
As such, it aims to become the leading peer reviewed journal for clinical stroke neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionists, neurointensivists, those interested in inpatient neurological care (neurohospitalists), and basic neuroscientists worldwide.
Content will include original clinical and translational research, brief reports, protocols, interesting case studies, review articles and editorials. The journal welcomes debate on controversial techniques, health policy, and social medicine. However, key criteria for acceptance will be ethical and methodological rigour rather than novelty or relevance to any particular group.
Stroke and Vascular Neurology will issue quarterly, with the bulk of its content published in English. In common with BMJ’s other open access titles, it will operate a fast submission and review process, with continuous publication online, ensuring that up to date high quality research is rapidly available worldwide.
Stroke and Vascular Neurology will join BMJ’s extensive stable of specialist journals, which include the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Practical Neurology, and the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery.
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