In 2021, the Polish Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery (Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska) continued to make progress as measured by all bibliometric indicators. The total number of submissions in 2021 was 270 items, with an acceptance rate of 34%. In six issues, the Journal published 8 Invited Editorials, 4 Invited Review Articles, 18 Review Articles, 30 Research Papers, 5 Short Communications, 2 Technical Notes, and 17 Letters to the Editors. Issues 2 and 6 included Leading Topic sections bringing together manuscripts on a similar subject accompanied by an Invited Editorial written by the Leading Topic section editor.
The three most downloaded and the three most viewed articles from 2021 are presented in Table 1 [1–5]. The Invited Review by Nojszewska et al. came first in both categories [1]. This manuscript provided a statement by a Working Group of the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in patients with multiple sclerosis.
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1. Nojszewska M., Kalinowska A., Adamczyk-Sowa M. et al. COVID-19 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) in patients with multiple sclerosis: a statement by a working group convened by the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2021; 55(1):8–11. 2. Yiannopoulou K.G., Papagiannis G.I., Triantafyllou A.I. et al. Neurological and neurourological complications of electrical injuries. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2021; 55(1):12–23. 3. Stępień A. , Kozubski W., Rożniecki J.J. et al., Migraine treatment recommendations developed by an Expert Group of the Polish Headache Society, the Headache Section of the Polish Neurological Society, and the Polish Pain Society. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2021; 55(1):33–51. |
5,109 2,270 2,155 |
Three most viewed articles |
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1. Nojszewska M., Kalinowska A., Adamczyk-Sowa M. et al., COVID-19 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) in patients with multiple sclerosis: a statement by a working group convened by the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2021; 55(1):8–11. 2. Gueye T., Dedkova M, Rogalewicz V. et al., Early post-stroke rehabilitation for upper limb motor function using virtual reality and exoskeleton: equally efficient in older patients. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2021; 55(1):91–96. 3. Czarnowska A., Brola W., Zajkowska O. et al., Clinical course and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in multiple sclerosis patients treated with disease-modifying therapies — the Polish experience. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2021; 55(2):212–222. |
5,864 4,473 2,702 |
We thank all authors who submitted articles to our Journal. However, the success of the Journal also depends on engagement and critical assessment of these submitted works. Thus, we are very much indebted to all our 124 national and international reviewers. We are especially grateful to those reviewers who provided multiple reviews over the course of the year. Table 2 names the Journal’s reviewers for 2021.
1. Monika Adamczyk-Sowa 2. Shan Ali 3. Wojciech Ambrosius 4. Yasuhiko Baba 5. Magdalena Badura-Stronka 6. Naci Balak 7. Anna Barczak 8. Krzysztof Barć 9. Huseyin Berk Benek 10. Monika Białecka 11. Magdalena Boczarska-Jedynak 12. Magdalena Bosak 13. Daniel Broderick 14. Sławomir Budrewicz 15. Krzysztof Bujarski 16. Kaisorn Chaichana 17. William P. Cheshire 18. Kamil Chwojnicki 19. Michael Cordes 20. Victor Constantinescu 21. Anna Członkowska 22. Elliot Dimberg 23. Izabela Domitrz 24. Jarosław Dulski 25. Stephen English 26. Olga Fermo 27. Anteneh Feyissa 28. Urszula Fiszer 29. Andrzej Friedman 30. Shinsuke Fujioka 31. Dariusz Gąsecki 32. Jonathan Graff-Radford 33. Sanjeet Grewal 34. Michael Heckman 35. Ernest Matthew Hoffman 36. Josephine Huang 37. Ewa Iżycka-Świeszewska 38. Dariusz Jaskólski 39. Robert Jech 40. Wolfgang Jost 41. Sergiusz Jóźwiak 42. Maciej Juryńczyk 43. Alicja Kalinowska-Łyszczarz 44. Bartosz Karaszewski 45. Aleksandra Karbowniczek 46. Michał Karliński 47. Radosław Kaźmierski 48. Kathleen Kennelly 49. Wojciech Kloc 50. Shunsuke Koga 51. Takuya Konno 52. Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk 53. Magdalena Koszewicz 54. Dariusz Koziorowski 55. Magdalena Krygier 56. Anna Krygowska-Wajs 57. Ewa Krzystanek 58. Iwona Kurkowska-Jastrzębska 59. Mariusz Kwarciany 60. Anetta Lasek-Bal 61. Tomasz Litwin 62. Alfonso S. Lopez Chiriboga |
63. Tomasz Mandat 64. Elizabeth Mauricio 65. Maria Mazurkiewicz-Bełdzińska 66. James F. Meschia 67. Erik Middlebrooks 68. Łukasz Milanowski 69. Dagmara Mirowska-Guzel 70. Maciej Mrugala 71. Marcin Mycko 72. Monika Nojszewska 73. Przemysław Nowacki 74. Marta Nowakowska-Kotas 75. Katarzyna Nowomiejska 76. Stanisław Ochudło 77. Ashley Pena 78. Ronald Pfeiffer 79. Ewa Pilarska 80. Anna Pokryszko-Dragan 81. Andrzej Potemkowski 82. Anna Potulska-Chromik 83. Mercedes Prudencio 84. Maciej Radek 85. Daniel Ręcławowicz 86. Radosław Rola 87. Owen Ross 88. Iwona Rościszewska-Żukowska 89. Monika Rudzińska-Bar 90. Beth Rush 91. Danuta Ryglewicz 92. Anna Sarnowska 93. Iwona Sarzyńska-Długosz 94. Martin Sawicki 95. Marek Sąsiadek 96. Michał Schinwelski 97. Krzysztof Selmaj 98. Wendy Sherman 99. Elizabeth Shuster 100. Mariusz Siemiński 101. Halina Sienkiewicz-Jarosz 102. Małgorzata Siger 103. Emilia Sitek 104. Joanna Siuda 105. Matej Skorvanek 106. Michał Sobstyl 107. Paweł Sokal 108. Mariusz Stasiołek 109. Barbara Steinborn 110. Jacek Szczygielski 111. Stanisław Szlufik 112. Tomasz Szmuda 113. Katarzyna Śmiłowska 114. Pille Taba 115. Paweł Tacik 116. William Tatum 117. Philip Tipton 118. Jakub Ubysz 119. Ryan Uitti 120. Robert Wharen 121. Grzegorz Witkowski 122. Jacek Zaborski 123. Beata Zakrzewska-Pniewska 124. Daniel Zielonka |