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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Magnetic Resonance Insights is an international, open access peer reviewed journal which covers all aspects of the development and use of magnetic resonance. This includes all levels of basic and applied research, as well as all aspects of clinical research and applications in biology. As an open access journal, it provides a means for researchers and clinicians in the many different fields involved in magnetic resonance to communicate their ideas quickly and without barriers. Work on related experimental techniques, equipment, theory, results, procedures and methods is also welcome.

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by:

• DOAJ 
• Google Scholar
• OAIster
  

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

Dr. Sendhil Velan currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced Imaging and Department of Radiology, West Virginia University. He is a visiting scientist in both the Physics and Chemistry departments and an adjunct assistant professor of Exercise Physiology at the same institution. He is also a visiting scientist at the National Institute on Ageing, National Institutes of Health. Previously he was a staff scientist at the Biological Imaging Center in the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. Dr Velan was also a visiting fellow at the NIH and a research fellow at the Cancer Institute.

Dr. Velan completed his PhD in Chemical Physics - Biophysics (interdisciplinary) with a research focus in Magnetic Resonance, and his postdoctoral fellowship in Magnetic Resonance methodologies at the NIH. He has developed several magnetic resonance techniques driven by spin physics for Imaging, self-diffusion measurements, high resolution MRS, and localized MRS for clinical applications. He is a member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India, and is a reviewer for several journals. He also mentors students from Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Medicine.

>> Dr Velan's latest call for papers

Editorial Board

Yonca Anik, MD
Assistant Professor, Radiology Department, School of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

Narayanan Chandrakumar, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Marc Dhenain, PhD
Research Scientist, URA CEA-CNRS 2210, Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, Orsay Cedex, France

Gerhard Gröbner, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden

Rakesh Gupta, MBBS MD
Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

Toshimichi Fujiwara, DSc
Professor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tom Hu, PhD MBA (Expert consultant)
Assistant Professor and Director, Small Animal Imaging, Radiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA

Naranamangalam R. Jagannathan, FNASc FASc FAMS
Professor, Head of Department of NMR & MRI Facility, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Rainer Kimmich, PhD
Professor, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Olga Kubassova, PhD
Head of Research and Development, Image Analysis Ltd, Leeds, UK

Angelique Louie, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA

Melanie Martin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

David K. Murray, PhD
Research Physical Scientist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Health Effects Laboratory Division, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Robia G. Pautler, PhD
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Education, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Dept. Neuroscience, Dept. Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Franca Podo, DSc
Doctor, Research Director, Director of the Section "Molecular and Cellular Imaging", Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Aina Puce, PhD
Professor of Radiology & Director of Neuroimaging, Center for Advanced Imaging & Deparment of Radiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Vazhaikkurichi M. Rajendran, PhD
Professor, Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Immunology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, PhD
Associate Professor, Biophysics and Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Raymond R. Raylman, PhD
Professor/Vice Chair for Research, Dept of Radiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Ravinder Regatte PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

Cheng B. Saw, PhD
Professor & Director, Medical Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Philadelphia, USA

Rolf F. Schulte, PhD
Research Scientist, Imaging Technologies Laboratory, GE Global Research, Munich, Germany

Michael Shapiro, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Paul E. Sijens, PhD
Professor, Radiology Department, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, Netherlands

Rajagopalan Sridhar, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Cancer Center, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

Sankaran Subramanian, PhD
Professor, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

M. Albert Thomas, PhD
Professor, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

Anne S. Ulrich, PhD
Professor, Chair of Biochemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Gianluigi Veglia, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics and Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Ze Wang, PhD
Research Associate Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Philip T.F. Williamson, PhD
School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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