We would first like to take this opportunity to introduce us as the new Editors-In-Chief of Neural Regeneration Research (NRR), and we will assure you our strong commitment to making NRR one of the best journals in this field.

In the coming year, we will focus our efforts on advancing the quality and reputation of Neural Regeneration Research by upholding the Tenants of the Journal. Key to this goal will be the timely publishing of innovative and creative as well as popular basic and clinical research that reflects the highest standard of neural regeneration research. Specifically, we will be looking to publish papers that have potentially high impact on the field. Also, a focus on research that is highly translational from bench side to bed side will make NRR a leading journal in the field. As always, we will insist on high academic quality, and strive to ensure that the unique academic characteristics of each article are clearly presented.

We welcome potential contributors with original papers as well as review papers within the scope of this journal to consider NRR as your primary choice for submission. Topics of particular interest to NRR are in the following areas: (1) Development, Plasticity and Regeneration, (2) Peripheral Nervous System Regeneration, (3) Central Nervous System Regeneration, (4) Stem cells and Cell-Based Regeneration, (5) Neural Degeneration and Regeneration, (6) Gene Therapy and Neural Regeneration, (7) Tissue Engineering and Neural Regeneration (8) Emerging Technology in Neural Regeneration, (9) Chinese Medicine and Neural Regeneration, (10) Translational Neural Regeneration. We also welcome proposals for editing a special issue on a specific topic related to neural regeneration.

NRR has become a successful and respected peer-reviewed international journal focusing exclusively on the exciting field of neural regeneration research. The international recognition of NRR is evidenced through the many databases that have indexed the journal. These databases include:

Science Citation Index Expanded(SCI-E)
BIOSIS previews (BP)
Chemical Abstracts (CA)
Excerpta Medica (EM)
Index Copernicus (IC)
Journals@OvidSP
Institute of Scientific & Technical Information ofChina(ISTIC)
Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD)

We look forward to reading your submissions and working with you to advance both the field of neural regeneration research and the quality and prominence of the journal, Neural Regeneration Research.

Prof. Kwok-Fai So, Ph.D.
Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chair Professor and Head
Jessie Ho Professor in Neuroscience
Department of Anatomy
The University of Hong Kong

Co-Directors
JNU-HKU Joint Laboratory for Brain Function and Health
Jinan University

Prof. Xiao-Ming Xu, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Mari Hulman George Chair of Neurological Surgery
Science Director, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group
Indiana University School of Medicine