Manuscripts that meet the following criteria can be submitted through ‘Rapid Publication Track’ in Neuroscience Bulletin (NB).

‘Rapid Publication Track’ allows urgent and competitive research to start the peer-review immediately after submission. Peer-reviewing of papers on the ‘Rapid Publication Track’ can be completed within 1-2 weeks.

Criteria

NB welcomes the following types of submissions and will consider the rapid publication potentials. Please send the pre-submission inquiry to the editorial office (nsb@sibs.ac.cn) before submitting your paper to the ‘Rapid Publication Track’.

• Manuscript just rejected from well-known journals (i.e., Science, Nature series, Cell series, PNAS, J Neurosci, Brain etc.).

• Manuscripts withdrawing from the revision process of other prestigious journals in the field of neuroscience (i.e., J. Neurosci., Mol Neurobiol., Gila etc).

• Manuscripts describing the breakthroughs and competitive researches, strongly recommended by at least one world-recognized experts.

To save the time for manuscript handling and reviewer invitation, the pre-submission inquiry MUST contain: the manuscript accompanied by last reviewer’s comments from other journals, point-to-point responses to these comments, or the recommendation letter.

When approved for ‘Rapid Publication Track’, manuscripts previously considered by other journals can be uploaded to our online submission system (https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/nsb). Reformatting will be required after the paper is accepted for publication.