Information for Authors
The American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) publishes original articles pertaining to the clinical imaging, therapy, and basic science of the central and peripheral nervous system, including but not limited to the brain, spine, head and neck, interventional procedures, techniques in imaging and intervention, and related educational, socioeconomic, and medicolegal issues. The content of the AJNR is determined by the Editors.
Types of articles the AJNR will consider for publication include Original Research, Clinical Reports, Brief/Technical Reports, Letters to the Editor, and special papers including Review Articles and Radiologic-Pathologic Correlations. Other items such as Book Reviews are solicited and approved by the Editors as well. Letters and Book Reviews are published online only. Please note that manuscripts presenting research supported by any government funding source from any nation will be published in an open access manner with no restriction of content from initial on-line posting.
Submitted manuscripts must not contain previously published material or material under consideration for publication elsewhere unless specific permission is obtained. Accepted manuscripts become the property of the AJNR and may not be republished without its consent.
Manuscripts will undergo peer review, and an AJNR Editor will then make a decision relative to publication.
The AJNR encourages and will give particular attention to investigations that are prospective in nature and in which specific hypotheses are proposed.
Author Responsibilities
The AJNR follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines on authorship. An author should have made substantial contributions to all the categories established by the ICMJE:
"conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,"
"drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content,"
"final approval of the version to be published,"
"agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved."
The corresponding author will need to report each author's contribution to the manuscript in the CRediT taxonomy in Manuscript Central. This can be added during Step 4 of the submission process (Authors & Institutions) by choosing the action "Edit" to display the contribution options. Only one corresponding author per paper is permitted. More than one senior author can be acknowledged in the paper footnotes.
Please note that we require an institutional or organizational email as either a primary or secondary contact for each author.
Honorary authorship is to be avoided. The ICMJE states that contributions solely in the areas of acquisition of funding, general supervision of a research group or general administrative support, writing assistance, technical editing, language editing, and proofreading are NOT sufficient for authorship.
Public trust in the scientific process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how transparently conflicts of interest are handled during the planning, implementation, writing, peer review, editing, and publication of scientific work. A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Perceptions of conflict of interest are as important as actual conflicts of interest. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership or options, honoraria, patents, and paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships or rivalries, academic competition, and intellectual beliefs. Authors should avoid entering in to agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose. Authors may be required to provide the journal with the agreements in confidence.
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