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Acta Neuropathologica
Journal info (provided by editor)
- Issues per year
- 12
- Articles published last year
- 136
- Manuscripts received last year
- 806
- % accepted last year
- 18%
- % immediately rejected last year
- 31%
- Open access status
- optional
- Manuscript handling fee?
- no
- Kind of complaint procedure
- Other
- Two-year impact factor
- 9.73
- Five-year impact factor
- 8.56
Aims and Scope
Acta Neuropathologica´s mission is to publish the best articles on pathology and pathogenesis of neurological disease. The journal focuses on structural and molecular neuropathology using human tissue, animal models and in vitro systems.
The editors feel that not only scientific excellence, but also efficiency of manuscript handling are key parameters of journal quality. Key figures of Acta Neuropathologica including very short turnaround times, i.e.a mean of 12 days between submission and first decision, and a mean of 10 days between acceptance and online publication.
SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 3 reviews)
| Duration of manuscript handling phases | ||
|---|---|---|
| Duration first review round | 0.7 mnths | compare → |
| Total handling time accepted manuscripts | 0.8 mnths | compare → |
| Decision time immediate rejection | n/a | compare → |
| Characteristics of peer review process | ||
| Average number of review reports | 2.7 | compare → |
| Average number of review rounds | 1.7 | compare → |
| Quality of review reports | 4.3 | compare → |
| Difficulty of reviewer comments | 3.0 | compare → |
| Overall rating manuscript handling | 4.7 (range 0-5) | compare → |