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Neural Development joins the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium

We are pleased to announce that Neural Development has joined the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC), enabling the more efficient handling of peer review between several neuroscience journals. 

The NPRC was instigated to reduce the time and effort involved in the peer review of original neuroscience research reports.  Under the new system, neuroscience journals with membership have agreed to accept manuscript reviews from other Consortium journals. By reducing the number of times that a manuscript is reviewed, the Consortium will increase the speed of publication of research results, and lessen the burden on both authors and reviewers alike.

To date, numerous neuroscience journals have joined the consortium, including Neuroscience, and Journal of Neuroscience, with many more, including BioMed Central’s Behavioral and Brain Functions, in the process of joining.  We hope that by joining the consortium, the already rapid peer review of Neural Development can be further streamlined, to the benefit of authors, reviewers, editors, and our readership.

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