Impact factors of neurosurgical journals updated

The list of impact factors for neurosurgical journals has been updated. The top three neurosurgical journals according to impact factor are now:

1. Journal of Neurosurgery

2. Neurosurgical Focus

3. Neurosurgery

The impact factor is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal and is often used the measure the relative importance of a journal within its field (Wikipedia).

The list of all neurosurgical journals with impact factors can be found here.

Blogs for neurosurgeons

Pereira et al. have written an interesting paper called Blogs for neurosurgeons. The paper is published in Surgical Neurology International and is available for free here.

If you are interested in Blogging you are very welcome to publish your Blog on NEUROSURGIC. It is very easy:

- Login to NEUROSURGIC (Not a member - register here)

- After login; click on My Blog Dashboard in the Member Menu to the right.

- Click on Write New Entry.

If you have any questions or experience any problems - please contact us.

/Team NEUROSURGIC

Reference:

Pereira JLB et al. Surg Neurol Int 2012;3:62

Winner of free registration to course in Neurosurgical Oncology

Congratulations to Dr. Malinka Rambadagalla from Sri Lanka, currently a final-year resident in neurosurgery in Latvia. He is the winner in our contest for free registration to the course “Advanced Techniques in Neurosurgical Oncology” in London, Jul 7-8, 2012.

Help us and win The Neurosurgeon´s Handbook

Since 2009 we have presented a new neurosurgical poll on NEUROSURGIC every month. Now we need your help to create more interesting questions: What would you like to ask your colleagues?

Help us by submitting your poll questions. For inspiration, you can find our old questions here.

If you submit a poll question you will have the chance to win The Neurosurgeon's Handbook by George Samandouras.

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