Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the BMJ Group. It covers research and reviews in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. Its editor-in-chief is Karen L. Furie (Brown University).^[1]

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Language	English
Edited by	Karen Furie
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology; Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
History	1920-present
Publisher	BMJ Group
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	8.8 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0022-3050 (print) 1468-330X (web)
Links
Journal homepage

History

The journal was established in 1920 by Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson as the Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology. Wilson was the head of a nine-member editorial committee which, besides Wilson, consisted of Thomas Graham Brown, Carey Coombs, Henry Devine, Bernard Hart, Maurice Nicoll, Charles Stanford Read, Roy Mackenzie Stewart, and Charles Symonds.^[2] The journal was renamed Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry from 1938 to 1944, and then obtained its current title.^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in various databases,^[4] for example, in: Science Citation Index Expanded, BIOSIS Previews, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Current Contents, Scopus, Embase, and CINAHL. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 8.8.^[5]