Archive for the ‘Editorial Issues’ Category

Announcing changes in AJNR

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 159 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 | 163 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:
Physics [...]

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podcast #2 available at ajnr.org

Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 235 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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AJNR Tops list of “most read” in mdlinx.com

Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 231 views

This week, the most read article in www.mdlinx.com comes from AJNR.  This is very nice review article written by our colleagues from Boston Children’s Hospital.  What I find very satisfying is that this article has [...]

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ajnrblog reaches 50,000 visits!

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 213 views

Eleven months after launching our blog we have reached over 50,000 visits.  That is an average of nearly 5,000 monthly visits. Although the numbers of visitors vary day to day, they tend to be higher [...]

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Radiation Dose in Neuroradiology: New Special Collection and Podcast

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 322 views

By now most Neuroradiologists are aware of the US Food and Drug Administration notification regarding dangerous levels of radiation exposure produced in one facility while performing CT perfusion. This unfortunate event has been front page [...]

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The greening of AJNR

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 291 views

Beginning this month AJNR starts its “Go Green” campaign.  We ask ASNR members to voluntarily drop their print subscription of AJNR.  At AJNR it is our desire to reduce our environmental footprint.  Reducing the number [...]

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New AJNR Feature: Weekly Question and Poll

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 370 views

Starting Monday, August 31, when you visit AJNR.ORG you will find our new weekly activity: question and poll.  Every Monday we will post a new question and our visitors can vote on an answer.  These [...]

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Relationship between quality and price.

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 485 views

I am often asked why can’t AJNR be entirely open access and free for all? There is a direct relationship between quality and freedom of access. To maintain the quality of AJNR we need editors, [...]

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AJNR’s new Impact Factor: 2.745, a record high!

Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 623 views

Today, the ISI Web of Knowledge released the new Journal Citation Reports which include metrics that analyze the performance of biomedical journals. AJNR’s impact factor went up from 2.338 (last year) to 2.745 with [...]

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