Imaging Neuroscience opening editorial
Smith S., Bergmann TO., Forstmann B., Dagher A., Keilholz S., Kennedy K., Kotz SA., Lustig C., Pike B., Tittgemeyer M., Woolrich M., Yeo BTT., Alexander A., Bijsterbosch J., Boonstra T., Chakravarty M., Chambers C., Chang C., Christian B., Dalal SS., Ding N., Duarte A., Fan AP., Gramfort A., Hartwigsen G., Jabbi M., Kochunov P., Krämer U., Lindquist M., Mangin JF., Murphy K., Polimeni J., Robinson E., Rosenberg M., Sadaghiani S., Seghier M., Shih YYI., Thielscher A., Uddin LQ., Van De Ville D., Vanduffel W., Yan CG., Yendiki A.
In this editorial we introduce a new non-profit open access journal, Imaging Neuroscience. In April 2023, editors of the journals NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports resigned, and a month later launched Imaging Neuroscience. NeuroImage had long been the leading journal in the field of neuroimaging. While the move to fully open access in 2020 represented a positive step toward modern academic practices, the publication fee was set to a level that the editors found unethical and unsustainable. The publisher of NeuroImage, Elsevier, was unwilling to reduce the fee after much discussion. This led us to launch Imaging Neuroscience with MIT Press, intended to replace NeuroImage as our field’s leading journal, but with greater control by the neuroimaging academic community over publication fees and adoption of modern and ethical publishing practices.