Darren Byrne is an Editor for the BMC Series and has been the Editor of BMC Neuroscience since July 2019.
Darren did his BA in Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Following this he did an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice King's College London. After this he did an MSc in Neuroscience with Psychiatric Genetics at King's College London. He then did a PhD in Neuroscience in the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London studying experience-dependent neural plasticity. Darren joined BMC in October 2018 as a locum editor after finishing his PhD and became a manuscript editor in March 2019.
Janelle joined the BMC series as an Assistant Editor in 2017. She earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in Neuroscience from the University of Hartford.
Speed
63 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
54 days to first decision for all manuscripts
193 days from submission to acceptance
12 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
2.811 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.727 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.8 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.023 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
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120 Altmetric Mentions