Nick Boross-Toby & Sally Howells
The Physiological Society

https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.93.21a

Sunny San Diego was the host to this year’s Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. The Journal of Physiology booth in the exhibition hall was well positioned in ‘Publishers row’ and we met a steady stream of neuroscientists who had published in, or reviewed for, The Journal over the years.

As ever, the meeting was very well attended, and delegates from all around the world came to learn more about our three journals and The Society. In this online age, researchers were pleased to be able to pick up a free copy of The Journal of Physiology to read during the meeting or on their way home. Both JP and EP had also created virtual issues to coincide with the meeting, which featured the top neuroscience papers published over the past 12 months.

We took the opportunity to play our filmed interviews of The Journal’s Consulting Editors, Jonathan Ashmore, Bert Sakmann, David Attwell and Colin Blakemore, which showed The Journal’s strength in the field of neuroscience and its close links with world-renowned neuroscientists.

We were pleased to be able to tell people that The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology are still free to publish in and impose no restrictions on page length or the number of figures that can be included in original research papers – a feature that seems to be increasingly rare in journals publishing.

Several of The Journal’s editors were at the event, including Editor-in-Chief, David Paterson. He said: “Once again, The Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting has been a great success. The Journal’s neuroscience issues are building a loyal following and many authors have said how important it is to be published alongside other top neuroscience research.”

We have booked our exhibit space for 2014, when the meeting moves to Washington DC, where hats and gloves, not sunglasses and shorts, will be the wardrobe essentials!