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Thematic series
Brain barriers and their microenvironment: Emerging models and techniques
Edited by Danica Stanimirovic, Britta Engelhardt, Elizabeth de Lange
Thematic series
Hydrocephalus: Promoting research for improved outcomes
Latest supplements
Hydrocephalus 2017 - The Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders (Hydrocephalus Society)
Meeting abstracts
Kobe, Japan. 32-25 September 2017
20th International Symposium on Signal Transduction at the Blood-Brain Barrier
Meeting abstracts
Kraków, Poland. 13-15 September 2017
About the Editors
Lester R Drewes, Editor-in-Chief
Lester Drewes is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth Medical School, and past President of the International Brain Barriers Society. Read more
Hazel C Jones, Editor-in-Chief
Hazel Jones is Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London and lately Courtesy Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida. Read more
Richard F Keep, Editor-in-Chief
Richard Keep is currently Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan. He is also Director of the Crosby Neurosurgical Laboratories and Associate Chair for Research in Neurosurgery. Read more
Editors-in-Chief
Lester R Drewes, University of Minnesota, USA
Hazel C Jones, King's College London, UK
Richard F Keep, University of Michigan, USA
Journal News
We are very pleased to announce that FBCNS has been accepted for indexing in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database, one of the major databases of the Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) Web of Science.
We expect that our first Impact Factor will be announced in summer 2019.
2017 Travel Bursary Awards
We are pleased to announce the winners of the journal-sponsored prize for best oral or poster presentation, awarded at Cerebral Vascular Biology 2017 to:
- Dr Azadeh Reyah
- Ms Yuki Yamasaki
Find out more about the awards and this year's winners here.
Society affiliations
International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS)
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is an official journal of the IBBS: a scientific and educational non-profit organisation advocating scientific and clinical research on the biological barriers in the central nervous system.
International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders (ISHCSF)
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is an official journal of the ISHCSF: a non-profit organisation that aims to advance the art and science of clinical care and research into hydrocephalus and CSF disorders, and promote the best possible care for patients.
All IBBS and ISHCSF members are eligible for a 25% discount when publishing with Fluids and Barriers of the CNS.
Scimago journal rank
FBCNS is ranked in the top quartile of the Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology and Neuroscience subject categories, by SCImago Journal Rank.
Forthcoming meetings
June 6 - 9, 2018
25th Annual PNIRS Scientific Meeting
June 17 - 22, 2018
GRC: Barriers of the CNS
June 28, 2018
SRHSB Annual Meeting
June 28 - 30, 2018
15th National Conference on Hydrocephalus
September 19 - 20, 2018
21st International Symposium on “Signal Transduction at the Blood-Brain Barriers”
October 19 - 22, 2018
ISHCSF: Hydrocephalus 2018
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2016 Journal Metrics
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Speed
32 days from submission to first decision
12 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
1.390 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.938 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
188,894 downloads
1023.0 Usage FactorSocial Media Impact
28 mentions
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