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Developmental Neurobiology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ15716734 ↗
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Developmental Neurobiology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of neural development. It was established in 1969 as Journal of Neurobiology, covering all of neuroscience, but when the scope become more specialized, it obtained its current name in 2007. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editor-in-chief is Bin Chen (University of California, Santa Cruz) and the associate editors are Song-Hai Shi (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) and Andreas Prokop (University of Manchester).

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 3.935.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 2007, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-01-01. For this dossier, Developmental, Neurobiology and journal is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Developmental Neurobiology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.