The year 2014 was a great year for CNS Spectrums. Following our transition year to our new publisher, Cambridge University Press, in 2012, we have now had 2 years of publishing 6 bimonthly issues plus a seventh CME issue each December, also including the abstracts of the Annual Neuroscience Education Institute’s (NEI) Psychopharmacology Congress. The numbers of articles and pages have progressively expanded over this time, and we have alternated thematic issues with general topics issues. Although it is still too early to know how the articles from the new journal will contribute to the impact factor, it is already clear from the number of downloads that many articles are being frequently read. Some of the most popular articles in 2014 have been the review of impulsivity and compulsivity by Naomi Fineberg and colleagues, the review of treatments for bipolar depression by Roger McIntyre and colleagues, and the article on serotonergic modulation of glutamate in depression and cognition by Pehrson and Sanchez. Also, quite a bit of interest was shown in our Meta-Guidelines for Schizophrenia. A review of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) by Phil Janicak and a review of new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease by Jeff Cummings and colleagues round out a set of additional articles most downloaded last year. Another set of guidelines, for the assessment and treatment of violence, were just published late in 2014, and we are hopeful that readers will download and cite the various guidelines that CNS Spectrums is publishing along with our other key articles.
Moving ahead, there are thematic issues being published in 2015 on antidepressants and pregnancy, guest edited by Pat Finley; a second special issue on inpatient violence to follow up our highly successful first issue on this topic published in late 2014, and guest edited by Katherine Warburton; a special issue on pediatric neuroimaging, guest edited by Robert Findling and colleagues; and a special issue on binge eating disorder, guest edited by Valerie Voon, to follow up a previous set of highly popular articles on impulsivity and compulsivity published this year. Indeed, we are receiving many articles in the subject area of impulsivity, compulsivity, obsessive compulsive disorder, and violence. In addition, many articles on clinical trial results of novel psychotropic agents have been published or are in the pipeline. We will continue to publish practice guidelines at appropriate intervals.
We are very appreciative of the tireless efforts of our field editors, Carlos Zarate, Thomas Schlaepfer, and Joseph Goldberg, and the deputy editor Tom Schwartz. We thank Terry Ketter for his service, as he rotates off his field editing duties back to the editorial board. Without their help, the support of the entire editorial board, and the submissions of our authors, we could not have come this far. Of course, the many reviewers of this and any other journal are its backbone. In addition to members of the editorial board, whom we thank for shouldering a disproportionate share of the reviewing tasks, we sought many of our reviews from a number of other scholars. We wish to acknowledge our heartfelt appreciation to all those who returned reviews during 2014. Their names are listed below.
Finally, I wish also to thank Cambridge University Press. Our content editor Lisa Arrington is the heartbeat of CNS Spectrums, and her hard work and continuous advocacy for the journal keep everything on track and moving forward. Edward Carey, Catherine Paduani, and Kirk Essary in production oversee a flawless and often last-minute production operation for us. We welcome our new senior editor, Ann Avouris, to Cambridge Journals, and look forward to working with her, a consummate professional with extensive experience in this field. I am very much looking forward to the developments we foresee for CNS Spectrums in 2015 and beyond, and thank you all for your roles in helping to make building this journal possible.
CNS Spectrums 2014 peer reviewers
Sally Adams
Shannon Bader
Stefan Borgwardt
Caroline Blanchard
Carlos Blanco
Bethany Brand
Charles Broderick
Michael Browning
Andre Brunoni
Katherine Burdick
Kenneth Carpenter
André Carvalho
Leslie Citrome
Anna Comparelli
Samuele Cortese
Canice Crerand
Larry Culpepper
Michael Cummings
Lieuwe de Haan
Bernardo Dell’osso
Jose de Leon
Boadie Dunlop
Jason Elias
Mark Fillmore
Leonardo Fontenelle
Ingmar Franken
Eric Garland
Anneke Goudriaan
Jon Grant
Issachar Herman
Amy Janes
Rune Jonassen
Bengt Källén
Joshua Kantrowitz
Masaki Kato
Richard Keefe
Terry Ketter
Michael Kisicki
Audrey Klein
Lorrin Koran
Veena Kumari
Chul Lee Byung
Francisco López-Muñoz
Maartje Luijten
Sergio Machado
Michael Maher
Donatella Marazziti
Patrick McGrath
James Megna
José Menchón
Jonathan Meyer
Jean-Louis Millot
David Mischoulon
Eline Moller
John Monahan
Jorge Mota-Pereira
Liam Nestor
Humberto Nicolini
Susan Ochoa
Lewis Opler
Michael Palfreyman
Stefano Pallanti
Jayendra Patel
Lars Henning Pedersen
Diego Pizzagalli
George Proctor
Alan Schatzberg
Frederike Schirmbeck
Lianne Schmaal
Louise Sharpe
Nadine Revheim
Fabian Saleh
David Sarwer
Christopher Slobogin
Frank Tarazi
Albert Umberto
Michael Vitacco
Andrew Waters
Jiansong Xu
Scott Zeller
Alessandro Zuddas
