Abstract
Neuroanatomy and Behaviour was founded to be a journal for rigorous and open science. In 2021, all of the empirical papers published engaged in at least one open science practice, such as open data or open protocols. The papers published have been carefully reviewed by two experts, but may also be sent to additional specialist reviewers for specific tasks, such as checking references or statistical approaches. In 2021, Neuroanatomy and Behaviour reached a key milestone and was accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals, the world’s leading database of trustworthy open access journals. As we look towards 2022, we will continue improving our publication processes and working to share quality neuroscience without financial barriers for authors or readers.
Highlights
Neuroanatomy and Behaviour was founded to be a journal for rigorous and open science
Our peer review process balances the confidentiality of traditional peer review to enable a fearless critique, while providing transparency with public review summaries
It is pleasing to see that all of the empirical papers published in Neuroanatomy and Behaviour this year have embraced openness in various ways
Summary
Neuroanatomy and Behaviour was founded to be a journal for rigorous and open science. Our processes are designed to encourage authors to engage in reproducibility-enhancing practices, such as open data and preregistration. In 2021, we published three review papers and four empirical papers. Lay and Khoo reviewed the associative processes in addiction relapse models, arguing that cue-induced reinstatement is driven by a combination of conditioned reinforcement and Pavlovian-toInstrumental transfer [3]. It is pleasing to see that all of the empirical papers published in Neuroanatomy and Behaviour this year have embraced openness in various ways. Didio and Casarotto shared the data from their survey on perceptions of reproducibility among neuroscientists via the Open Science Framework [4]. Cullity and colleagues shared their behavioural and stereology data via Zenodo [6]. Maximino’s study of the uptake monoamine transporter system was originally shared as a preprint on bioRxiv and is accompanied by both an open protocol and a dataset available on Github and Zenodo [7]
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