key: cord-0698600-srpeg2rm authors: Hacke, Werner title: Neurological research and practice: the first milestone has been reached date: 2021-01-13 journal: Neurol Res Pract DOI: 10.1186/s42466-021-00101-8 sha: f292779733abc63f19bcda14e470a4239e8ab610 doc_id: 698600 cord_uid: srpeg2rm nan cles remained stable. Overall, we had an acceptance rate of 50%, with the number of letters rejected in the order of 70%. In total, more than 120 citations have been counted by now. Table 2 lists the five articles [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] with the highest citations (2 research articles, 2 reviews, and a letter published in 2020. It is important to note that clinical trial protocols, guidelines, and also SOPs are frequently cited. In our opinion, this underlines the importance of these article types. The far majority of the letters were published in 2020 and several have already been cited. Access rates also show how much interest some of our articles have received. A review on the "resumption of oral anticoagulation after intracerebral hemorrhage" has already received almost 10,000 accesses [8] . Other highly accessed articles are found in Table 3 [9] [10] [11] . Three of them were published in 2020. The publication highlights include the first-ever guideline on "Neurological manifestations of COVID 19" [9] , the results of a national registry of fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing [3] , the worldwide first documentation of the population-wide uptake of mechanical thrombectomy [4] , and a review of antibody associated movement disorders [11] . In December 2020, NRP was included into Pubmed in a record-breaking time of less than 2 years after the publication of the first articles.This is a great breakthrough and the first milestone on our way to a widely accepted international scientific journal. We believe that this listing will lead to an increasing number of article submissions. We hope that our publications will be cited even more frequently, which will lead eventually to our first impact factor in a short time. Our publication pipeline continues to grow, and the number of international submissions is increasing. So far, we have received 55 submissions from authors outside of Germany. We will continue to invite reviews on new developments and perspectives, and we welcome the submission of research articles. Several clinical trial protocols are in preparation, and we have lists of upcoming standard operating procedures and guidelines to be published within the next 12 months. The Editorial Board has been a great source of support for establishing NRP, and we will have the first rotation of our Editorial Board in 2021. We will announce Section Editors for key areas in neurology such as neuroimmunology and neurooncology, neurodegeneration and movement disorders, stroke, interventional neurology and critical care, pediatric neurology, cognitive neurology, and functional imaging, and neuromuscular disorders. As the founding editor of NRP I am grateful for the ever increasing support by the leadership of the German Neurological Society represented by our current President Professor Christine Klein, Past President Professor Gereon Fink, Incoming President Christian Gerloff, the Secretary Professor Peter Berlit, and the Chief Administrative Officer Dr. Thomas Thiekötter. I express my gratitude to our partners at the publisher's office, namely Emily Jones and Cecille Calusa for their continuous support, to all members of the Editorial Board, to the authors for submitting their articles, and to the reviewers for their most important contributions. They all make the first years of NRP so successful. Please continue to support us to make NRP a well-received and influential voice of German neurology publishing content with international relevance. Announcing the new launch of Neurological Research and Practice Neurological research and practice: the first year Safety and clinical impact of FEES -results of the FEES-registry Distribution and evolution of acute interventional ischemic stroke treatment in Germany from Computer-aided imaging analysis in acute ischemic stroke -background and clinical applications An unmet clinical need: roads to remyelination in MS Guillain-Barré syndrome and SARS-CoV-2 Resumption of oral anticoagulation after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage Neurological manifestations of COVID-19" -guideline of the German society of neurology How to use and assess qualitative research methods Antibody-related movement disorders -a comprehensive review of phenotype-autoantibody correlations and a guide to testing Hacke Neurological Research and Practice (2021) 3:3 Author's contributions WH wrote the manuscript. The author read and approved the final manuscript.Competing interests WH declares he is Editor-in-Chief of Neurological Research and Practice. WH reports payments by the German Neurological Society as compensation for editorial work and travel reimbursement. There are no further competing interests.