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Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers manuscripts on all CNS fluids and barrier systems in health and disease.
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is affiliated to the International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS) and the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders (ISHCSF).
Thematic series
CNS Fluid and Solute Movement: Physiology, Modelling and Imaging
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
Thematic series
Brain barriers and their microenvironment: Emerging models and techniques
Edited by Danica Stanimirovic, Britta Engelhardt, Elizabeth de Lange
Abstracts from the 13th International Conference on Cerebral Vascular Biology (CVB 2019)
Meeting abstracts
Miami, FL, USA. 25-28 June 2019
Hydrocephalus 2018 - The Tenth Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders
Meeting abstracts
Bologna, Italy. 19-22 October 2018
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
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.
Lester R Drewes, University of Minnesota, USA
Hazel C Jones, King's College London, UK
Richard F Keep, University of Michigan, USA
We are pleased to announce that FBCNS now has an official Impact Factor of 3.727.
FBCNS is now welcoming submissions to our latest thematic series, focused on Advances in in vitro modeling of the blood-brain barrier and neurovascular unit.
Submission deadline: February 1st, 2020.
CNS Fluid and Solute Movement: Physiology, Modelling and Imaging.
This series brings together papers focusing on all aspects of fluid movement in the brain, helping to address current controversies in an area of intense research and debate.
B waves: a systematic review of terminology, characteristics, and analysis methods
Isabel Martinez-Tejada, Alexander Arum, Jens E. Wilhjelm, Marianne Juhler & Morten Andresen
Claudin-12 is not required for blood–brain barrier tight junction function
Mariana Castro Dias, Caroline Coisne, Pascale Baden, Gaby Enzmann, Lillian Garrett, Lore Becker, Sabine M. Hölter, German Mouse Clinic Consortium, Martin Hrabě de Angelis, Urban Deutsch & Britta Engelhardt
FBCNS is ranked in the top quartile of the Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology and Neuroscience subject categories, by SCImago Journal Rank.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the awards for best oral or poster presentations sponsored by FBCNS for young investigators at Hydrocephalus 2019, the 11th meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders, 13th-16th September Vancouver, Canada.
Find out more about this year's winners here.
We are pleased to announce the winners of prizes for best presentations sponsored by FBCNS at the Cerebrovascular Biology Meeting in Miami, Florida, June 25-28, 2019.
26th Annual Blood-Brain Barrier Consortium Meeting; Portland, Oregon, USA on March 12-13, 2020. https://www.ohsu.edu/bbbmeeting
Barriers of the CNS Gordon Research Conference; Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, USA on June 14-19, 2020. https://www.grc.org/barriers-of-the-cns-conference/2020/
12th Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders; Hydrocephalus 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden September 11-14, 2020
23rd International Symposium on Signal Transduction at the Blood-Brain Barriers; Bari, Italy, September 23-25, 2020.
11th International Symposium on Neuroprotection and Neurorepair (ISN&N) and the 18th International Conference on Brain Edema and Cellular Injury (BEM); Berlin, Germany, October 5-7, 2020
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Speed
38 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
35 days to first decision for all manuscripts
88 days from submission to acceptance
23 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.727 - 2-year impact factor
1.199 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.394 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
227,808 downloads
77 Altmetric mentions
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