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Hippocampus: A vehicle for the “Hippocampal Community”

Hippocampus: A vehicle for the “Hippocampal Community” HIPPOCAMPUS 8:1 (1998) EDITORIAL Hippocampus: A Vehicle for the ‘‘Hippocampal Community’’ Like many of you, I eagerly look forward to receiving each issue of submissions, which will move us toward more frequent Hippocampus. More so than for any other journal, I will find several papers issues, which will automatically reduce the publication of critical relevance to my own research progress. I also anticipate seeing a lag further, which will in turn encourage researchers to wide range of reviews, commentaries, and debates that broaden my general send even more of their best new results to Hippocampus. knowledge about the hippocampus. For all these reasons, and for the My second commitment is to further Hippocampus as consistently high quality of the papers, I have come to depend on David a vehicle of communication and education for the Amaral and Menno Witter to keep me updated on our understanding of ‘‘hippocampal community.’’ In the publishing field, hippocampal structure, physiology, and function. So, like most of you, I Hippocampus is known as a niche journal, a periodical was shocked to hear that David and Menno had decided it was time to leave intended for a selective audience. As outlined in their the editorship. And I worried (and continue to worry) how it can survive editorial in the first issue, this was precisely David and without them. However, they showed me that Hippocampus is doing very Menno’s original intent, and they made this choice well indeed. It has grown to be both highly cited and widely read (see their knowing that such selectivity would limit the submission editorial in the last issue of 1997). They also convinced me that and subscription bases. However, I share their vision of Hippocampus could survive them and even prosper by the energy that comes Hippocampus as necessarily focused, so that it can along with a new leadership. Then I was further shocked to hear that they accordingly provide venues both for high-level discus- wanted me to take their job! With appropriate trepidation I agreed to accept sion among experts and for education of us all by the challenge, knowing that I would have large shoes to fill. In my first act as specialists across diverse levels of analysis. To those ends I the new Editor, and writing for all of us, I thank David and Menno for have initiated several projects ranging from debates following their inspiration to begin the journal, for their dedication to the between noted experts on issues of controversy to critical quality and breadth of the publications, and for their contribution to the commentaries on new findings, special sections on field by providing strong leadership. I am immensely relieved that both of rapidly developing approaches, and whole issues as them will continue to serve on the Board of Editors. updates on long-standing areas of study. My goal is My first commitment as Editor is to maintain the quality of articles eventually to include special papers in every issue of appearing in Hippocampus. To this end I will rely, perhaps even more than Hippocampus, and thus to make the journal both David and Menno did, on the superb Board of Editors they recruited, and exciting and indispensable to all ‘‘hippocampologists,’’ as on the staff at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Our board will continue to see that well as to general libraries. articles are reviewed critically, thoroughly, and fairly. They will also With these goals in mind, lastly I ask for your help. represent the interests of the broad multidisciplinary range of our Just as this journal is for you, its success depends on you. readership. Contributors should henceforth feel comfortable in discussing Think about issues of importance to your own research potential submissions and in sending manuscripts directly to any of the progress and to your general area of study. If you have an Section Editors, as well as to me. This new arrangement will offer a idea for a special project, please contact me to discuss it. geographical advantage in communication for some contributors, and it Also, of course, please send me your very best new will not hamper the evaluation schedule because the Section Editors are findings—I promise a speedy and fair review and a rapid always directly involved in the reviewing process. publication. A related aim is to reduce the publication lag without compromising the quality of our papers. We will continue to emphasize electronic communi- cation in our interaction with reviewers, editors, and authors. Indeed, we Howard B. Eichenbaum will work toward fully electronic submission, and we strongly encourage Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology contributors to submit their papers in electronic form (including the Department of Psychology figures) by E-mail or on disk. By reducing the publication lag, the journal Boston University will become more attractive to contributors for quick dissemination of their most important new results. I expect this will increase the number of Boston, Massachusetts 1998 WILEY-LISS, INC. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hippocampus Wiley

Hippocampus: A vehicle for the “Hippocampal Community”

Eichenbaum, Howard B.
Hippocampus , Volume 8 (1) – Jan 1, 1998
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HIPPOCAMPUS 8:1 (1998) EDITORIAL Hippocampus: A Vehicle for the ‘‘Hippocampal Community’’ Like many of you, I eagerly look forward to receiving each issue of submissions, which will move us toward more frequent Hippocampus. More so than for any other journal, I will find several papers issues, which will automatically reduce the publication of critical relevance to my own research progress. I also anticipate seeing a lag further, which will in turn encourage researchers to wide range of reviews, commentaries, and debates that broaden my general send even more of their best new results to Hippocampus. knowledge about the hippocampus. For all these reasons, and for the My second commitment is to further Hippocampus as consistently high quality of the papers, I have come to depend on David a vehicle of communication and education for the Amaral and Menno Witter to keep me updated on our understanding of ‘‘hippocampal community.’’ In the publishing field, hippocampal structure, physiology, and function. So, like most of you, I Hippocampus is known as a niche journal, a periodical was shocked to hear that David and Menno had decided it was time to leave intended for a selective audience. As outlined in their the editorship. And I worried (and continue to worry) how it can survive editorial in the first issue, this was precisely David and without them. However, they showed me that Hippocampus is doing very Menno’s original intent, and they made this choice well indeed. It has grown to be both highly cited and widely read (see their knowing that such selectivity would limit the submission editorial in the last issue of 1997). They also convinced me that and subscription bases. However, I share their vision of Hippocampus could survive them and even prosper by the energy that comes Hippocampus as necessarily focused, so that it can along with a new leadership. Then I was further shocked to hear that they accordingly provide venues both for high-level discus- wanted me to take their job! With appropriate trepidation I agreed to accept sion among experts and for education of us all by the challenge, knowing that I would have large shoes to fill. In my first act as specialists across diverse levels of analysis. To those ends I the new Editor, and writing for all of us, I thank David and Menno for have initiated several projects ranging from debates following their inspiration to begin the journal, for their dedication to the between noted experts on issues of controversy to critical quality and breadth of the publications, and for their contribution to the commentaries on new findings, special sections on field by providing strong leadership. I am immensely relieved that both of rapidly developing approaches, and whole issues as them will continue to serve on the Board of Editors. updates on long-standing areas of study. My goal is My first commitment as Editor is to maintain the quality of articles eventually to include special papers in every issue of appearing in Hippocampus. To this end I will rely, perhaps even more than Hippocampus, and thus to make the journal both David and Menno did, on the superb Board of Editors they recruited, and exciting and indispensable to all ‘‘hippocampologists,’’ as on the staff at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Our board will continue to see that well as to general libraries. articles are reviewed critically, thoroughly, and fairly. They will also With these goals in mind, lastly I ask for your help. represent the interests of the broad multidisciplinary range of our Just as this journal is for you, its success depends on you. readership. Contributors should henceforth feel comfortable in discussing Think about issues of importance to your own research potential submissions and in sending manuscripts directly to any of the progress and to your general area of study. If you have an Section Editors, as well as to me. This new arrangement will offer a idea for a special project, please contact me to discuss it. geographical advantage in communication for some contributors, and it Also, of course, please send me your very best new will not hamper the evaluation schedule because the Section Editors are findings—I promise a speedy and fair review and a rapid always directly involved in the reviewing process. publication. A related aim is to reduce the publication lag without compromising the quality of our papers. We will continue to emphasize electronic communi- cation in our interaction with reviewers, editors, and authors. Indeed, we Howard B. Eichenbaum will work toward fully electronic submission, and we strongly encourage Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology contributors to submit their papers in electronic form (including the Department of Psychology figures) by E-mail or on disk. By reducing the publication lag, the journal Boston University will become more attractive to contributors for quick dissemination of their most important new results. I expect this will increase the number of Boston, Massachusetts 1998 WILEY-LISS, INC.

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