Editorial Message ================= *Neuroscience Journal continues to be the leading journal for Neurosciences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2015, a phenomenal growth in terms of Journal Impact Factor (IF), the journal had an increase in the journal’s IF from 0.391 for 2013 to 0.708 for 2014. The IF is a measure reflecting an increase in the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal*. (**Figure 1**) ![Figure 1](http://nsj.org.sa/https://nsj.org.sa/content/nsj/21/1/1/F1.medium.gif) [Figure 1](http://nsj.org.sa/content/21/1/1/F1) Figure 1 Impact factor for the Neurosciences journal over the last years. *For each article published in the journal, we start to include digital object identifier (DOI), a unique identifier to link to the published content and lead to the correct source*. *The journal has experienced a growing number of withdrawal of submissions after peer review process or after the provisional acceptance. The journal took disciplinary measures for unethical withdrawal of manuscripts. For this reason, the journal adopted a withdrawal policy. Details of this policy are available in the Instructions to Authors section. With this new policy, the number of withdrawn papers will drop in the coming months ahead*. *We took this year an opportunity to present different kinds of data and enhance the scientific content of the journal, we introduced Clinical Practice Guidelines and Systematic Review as new article types in the journal*. *The Neurosciences journal is also indexed in EBSCO data base. EBSCO is a leading provider of research data base, e-journals, magazines, e-books. This is a step to enrich the exposure of the journal in many different database*. *Another step to increase the exposure of our journal among scientific committees in the region, we encourage the local societies to establish collaboration with the Neurosciences journal for the benefit of the journal and encourage the members of the societies to promote its scientific content*. *In 2016, we are looking forward to enhancing the online and digital presence of the journal, through the implementation of the online submission system and indexing the journal in PubMed Central*. ### Editorial team *We would like to take this opportunity to honor Maj. Gen. Saeed M. Al-Asmary the Editorial Director, upon his retirement. We would like to express our gratitude and appreciate all his support over the years*. *After years of dedicated editorship, Dr. Ali AlBarrak stepped down as Editor-in-Chief to focus more on his responsibilities in the Ministry of Health. During his tenure as Editor-In-Chief, Neurosciences journal had many progresses*. *With great sadness, we also bid farewell to one of the senior dedicated member, Assistant Editor, Susan Douglas. Having worked for several years, she has been responsible for supervising the Editing section of the journal*. *On a positive note, we welcome the new Editorial Director Maj. Gen. Suleiman M. Al-Malik. We look forward to benefiting highly from his expertise in the years ahead*. *We congratulate Dr. Fahdah Alokaily, on her appointment as the new Editor-in-Chief of Saudi Medical Journal and Neurosciences. With her experience, we wish her all the success in this position. We believe that Neurosciences journal will continue the success under her competent leadership*. ### Yearly statistics *In 2015, we received a total number of 147 manuscripts, with an average rejection rate of 53%. Reasons for rejection included papers out the scope of the journal, of low scientific quality, not meeting the requirements of the journal, authors failing to submit the revisions and other necessary requirements, and duplicate publication*. *However, over 4 issues of 2015, we published a total number of 74 articles which include: 25 originals, 3 editorials, 6 reviews, 19 case reports, 1 clinical note, 2 clinical images, 5 brief communications, 1 brief report, 4 correspondences, 4 meeting highlights, and 4 MCQs with a total of 392 pages for the entire volume. The average processing time from received to acceptance was 5.5 months and 2.5 months from acceptance to publication and we are pleased to maintain the average processing time frame stable over the last year*. ### With thanks *We extend our thanks to the Editorial and Advisory Board Members for their significant contributions to maintaining the standards of the journal, and we look forward to their important continued role in achieving our goals for 2016. We would like to thank the outgoing Advisory Board member (Bassam Addas) who had now finished his term and would like to welcome Mohammad Tariq to the Advisory Board. We also extend our thanks to the outgoing Editorial Board members (Tariq Abalkhail, Adel Alhazzani, Hosam Al-Jehani, Salah Almubarak and Fatimah A. Alqarni) and welcome (Hadeel AlKhamees, Abdulwahed Barnawi, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Khalid Hundallah, and Reem Alkhater). We are honored they have agreed to join the board, and their individual contributions will be of great value to the journal. We continue the international diversity of members that the current board offers*. *We hope all our readers continue to benefit from the published material, and we extend our sincerest thanks to our authors, readers, reviewers, and board members, and wish all a successful year*. *Sonia Khan* ***Associate Editor*** *Mohammed Al-Zawahmah* ***Associate Editor*** *Our thanks also go to the following reviewers, who have participated in the excellent review of manuscripts and books for the year 2015*. AbdulRaheem Abu-Jayyab Ahmad Khalifa Ahmed Abou-Zeid Ahmed El-Beltagi Alban Deroux Alessio Pieroni Ali Baaj Ali Bydon Amey Savardekar Andreia Fernandez Andreia Matas Anita MacDonald Anna Sedda Anna Maria Ghelli Annapurni Trouth Aria Fallah Asla Pitkanen Bartosz Mruk Ben Wakerly Bernhard Schaller Bobby Starke Boleslaw Lach Caleb Pearson Carmelo Sturiale Caroline Martinsson Cecchini Giulio Christian Urbanek Christoph Lossin Clara Crescioli Craig Birgfeld Daniel SanJuan Dhaval Shukla Egidia Miftode Inmonitor Elizabeth Engle Eman Nassim Ali Emilio Peruccq Eric Leppink Fabienne Brilot Fahad Alsheikh Fahmy Aboulenein-Djamshidian Federico Mainardi Fernando Gomes Romeiro Francesca Re Geoffrey Gerstner Giovanni Morone Greg Thomas Hae Woong Jeong Hosam Al-Jehani Hung-Yu Chan Husni Ahmed Al-Goshae Ibrahim A. Al-Orainy Jasna Jancic Jeffrey Rakofsky Jerome Engel Joel Frohlich Joel Mainland Jonathan Coutinho Jose Cavazos Joseph Calabrese Joseph Glorioso Joseph Tchaou Joseph Lamanna K Lee Kees Alblas Lanjun Guo Mahmoud Taho Majed AlHameed Man Wang Marielle Vlooswijk Massimo Molteni Mays El-Dairi Mehmet Talay Koylu Melina Castiglione Meltem Alkan Melikoglu *Mohamed Tariq Mohammad Alanazy Mohammad Alhazaa Mohammed A. Almekhlafi Moreira dos Santos Nader Honjol Naser Alotaibi Nikhil Gupta Nobuyuki Kawai Nuria Aragay Olcay Unver Omar Ayoub Osama Alsmadi Osama Amin Paola Castelli Candia Peter Wolf Prue Hart Przemyslaw Kowianski Puneet Mittal Pushpendra Renjen Rafal Wojciak Rahul Deshmukh Raidah Saleem Al-Baradie Rajesh Verma Raju Suresh Kumar Rasim Gencosmanoglu Renita Lorina Castelino Richard Allen Riyadh A. Al-Namlah Ruth Mabry Saleh S. Baeesa Sami Harik Sari Alsuhibani Serge Marbacher Shaista Siddiqi Shibani Mukerji Sonoko Misawa Stephen Honeybul Sultan Al-Shahrani Syed Faraz Kazim Taim Muayqil Taku Omata Talita Pollyanna Tara Wenger Tengfei Wang Thomas Polak Thomas Schwartz Valentina Chiesa Vasileios Kanas Vassiliki Aroniadou-Anderjaska Veys Ioner Vidya Rajesh Vikas Kumar William Gnsham Yildan Binay Safer * Copyright: © Neurosciences Neurosciences is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.