Archive for the ‘Editorial Issues’ Category

Renting AJNR articles.

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 162 views

I know that many of you have faced the following annoying situation: you find an article that you must read but to do so you have to pay $20.00-$30.00! If you, or the institution you [...]

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Bias and language in Scientific articles

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 163 views

In the last issue of JACR (J Am Coll Radiol 2010; 7: 490-494) Dr. James Brenner addresses some of the more subtle manifestations of bias in the scientific literature.  These biases arise because they are [...]

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AJNR’s new impact factor for 2010

Posted on June 18th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 336 views

I am very happy to announce that AJNR’s new Impact Factor is 3.296 up from 2.745 last year.  AJNR will continue to offer the highest quality scientific articles and we will be fine tuning the [...]

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AJNR’s New Special Collection and Podcast Survey Brain Tumor Imaging

Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 323 views

“Brain Tumor Imaging, Volume 1: Pretherapy” is the latest Special Collection from the American Journal of Neuroradiology. Distilling the best of the many articles related to brain tumor imaging that appear in the pages of [...]

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ajnr’s case of the week: upcoming improvements

Posted on April 7th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 293 views

The Case of the Week feature at AJNR.ORG is now established as an important educational activity with up the 10,000 views every month.  Thus I have asked Dr. Girish Fatterpekar from Mount Sinai Hospital in [...]

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Interventional Neuroradiology: now in MEDLINE

Posted on March 31st, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 420 views

Most of you know that last year AJNR entered a cooperative agreement with Interventional Neuroradiology (IN).  Since AJNR accepts very few case reports and technical notes, we encourage the authors of these types of articles [...]

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Hotlight: A cool new feature for AJNR

Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 310 views

We are happy to announce that starting on March 19th, AJNR will be enhanced with the Hotlight feature.  This nifty addition allows readers to instantly retrieve medical images (from the ARRS Goldminer program), journal articles [...]

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Announcing changes in AJNR

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 400 views

As I hinted on my blog of Jan 10th some changes need to happen to AJNR to keep it current and make it more relevant than ever before. Thus, the following changes will take place [...]

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ajnr: changes for 2010

Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 509 views

AJNR is constantly changing, many times thanks to suggestions made by our readers and others by decisions taken by myself and the senior editors.  These are some of the changes that will happen this year: [...]

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podcast #2 available at ajnr.org

Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 499 views

This month’s podcast features Dr. D. Phillips commentaries on the Editor’s and Fellow’s Journal Club choices from the Nov/Dec issue of AJNR.  Additionally, after the comment on the first article, Dr. Riina offers his point [...]

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