Experimental Neurobiology: The Past, Present, and Future.

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lished in December of 1992 as the official journal of Korean Society for Neurobiology. While a domestic journal, EN was unique in that all manuscripts submitted had to be in English. The late Professor Joseph Jin Chang at Sogang University was the most prominent founder of the journal and almost single-handedly managed the publication of EN for the subsequent six years. With his commitment, passion and most importantly leadership, EN successfully started the voyage as a journal covering interdisciplinary investigations in all fields of neuroscience. In 1997, Korean Society for Neurobiology and Korean Society for Neuroscience were merged to become Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science (KSBNS) to encompass broad aspects of neuroscience, as a representative organization for scientists and physicians devoted to understanding of the brain and the nervous systems. In 1998, EN became the official journal of KSBNS. From 2000 to 2008, EN invited several influential figures to serve as Editor-in-Chief (Table 1), Managing Editor and Reviewing Editor. During this period, Managing Editor was in full charge of handling all the processes of publishing articles. The continuous success of the journal was directly related to the hard work and devotion of all the editorial members, and we were very fortunate to have four extraordinary Managing Editors, and we are thrilled to acknowledge them for their invaluable dedication and service: Professors Onyou Hwang (University of Ulsan, 2000~2002), Yunhee Kim-Kwon (Kyung Hee University, 2003~2004), Suja Oh (The Catholic University of Korea, 2005~2006) and Insop Shim (Kyung Hee University, 2006~2008). From 2008, dramatic changes were made in order to further upgrade the quality of EN and to cultivate a solid platform to be recognized as a global journal. First, Editor-in-Chief rather than Managing Editor, took the charge of managing publication of each issue. Starting from 2009, EN was subdivided into several sections and consequently invited Associate Editor and Editorial Board Members for each section. These sections included Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Development/Differentiation/Regeneration Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Diseases, System/Cognitive/ Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuromodeling/Neuroimaging/Neuroengineering, Clinical Neuroscience, and Methods and Protocol. In addition, EN started to publish not only original papers but also review articles on a regular basis. EN also invited distinguished foreign neuroscientists as Editorial Board Members (USA, 12; Japan, 4; China, 3; Germany, 2; Hong Kong, 2; England, 1; Australia, 1; Israel, 1). In 2010, EN was approved as a candidate registered journal by the Korean Research Foundation, following the previous year’s unsuccessful attempt, and became listed in the Korean Citation Index. Experimental Neurobiology: The Past, Present, and Future