Neuroimage: Reports

NEUROIMAGE: REPORTS AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.1 • Editorial Board p.1 • Guide for Authors p.3 ISSN: 2666-9560 DESCRIPTION . NeuroImage: Reports is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only companion journal to NeuroImage, offering an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of important advances in the use of neuroimaging to study all aspects of structure-function and brain-behaviour relationships. Results from studies employing electrophysiological and neurostimulation techniques are also welcome. NeuroImage: Reports accepts contributions that are scientifically sound and use neuroimaging to help advance the understanding our brain function, organization, and structure and/or the pathophysiologic mechanisms of diseases and disorders. We also welcome papers that explicitly address these questions in animal models or clinical populations. NeuroImage: Reports publishes original research articles, papers on methods, models of brain function, databases, theory or conceptual positions. We are also interested in 'non-traditional', innovative and empirically oriented research such as negative/null data papers and replication studies both of which are published at no charge to the author. Studies that might encourage new lines of inquiry as well as scholarly commentaries on topical issues, systematic reviews, and mini reviews are also very much encouraged. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Birte Forstmann, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Acting Editor-in-Chief Michael Cohen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Associate Editors Gesa Hartwigsen, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Peter Kochunov, University of Maryland Center for Brain Imaging Research, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 25 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/ynirp 1 Dimitri Van De Ville, EPFL and University of Geneva, Campus Biotech, Genève, Switzerland Chao-Gan Yan, Institute of Psychology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Registered Reports Editor Chris Chambers, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 25 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/ynirp 2 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Your Paper Your Way We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Only when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article. To find out more, please visit the Preparation section below. INTRODUCTION Neuroimage: Reports is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only journal offering an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of important advances in the use of neuroimaging to study all aspects of structure-function and brain-behaviour relationships. Neuroimage: Reports accepts contributions that are scientifically sound and use neuroimaging to help advance the understanding our brain function, organization, and structure and/or the pathophysiologic mechanisms of diseases and disorders. We also welcome papers that explicitly address these questions in animal models or clinical populations. Types of Article NeuroImage: Reports publishes original research articles, papers on methods, models of brain function, databases, theory or conceptual positions as well as Registered Reports. See HERE for detailed guidelines for Registered Reports. Authors can submit a Registered Report either directly to the journal or via the Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI RR), which performs peer review of Stage 1 and Stage 2 preprints and then offers authors the opportunity to publish their approved manuscript without further peer review in a range of journals (including NeuroImage: Reports). Further guidance concerning the PCI RR track may be found in the detailed journal guidelines for Registered Reports. We are also interested in 'non-traditional', innovative and empirically oriented research such Negative/Null data papers and replication studies both of which are published at no charge to the author. Studies that might encourage new lines of inquiry as well as scholarly commentaries on topical issues, systematic reviews, and mini reviews are also very much encouraged. For null findings it should be clear how the negative result extends our existing knowledge - e.g., which existing or new theories does it support or perhaps contradict? Was the hypothesis worth testing a priori? In short: Why is the absence of the effect interesting? Null effects due to flaws in the employed methodology should be ruled out as much as possible. Control analyses should be included for manipulation checks, data quality checks, and a power analysis should be included to ensure the lack of effect is not type 2 error. The amount of evidence against the presence of an effect should be quantified, e.g. using Bayesian statistics. Is it really certain that there was no effect, or are the data ambiguous to the existence of an effect? For failed replications it would be informative to compare all aspects of the methodology to the original paper(s) that showed the effect (as much as possible). For example, how similar/different is the sample of participants, the methods used (e.g., machinery, sequences/settings), the analyses used, and is there any reason to believe such methodological aspects influence the outcome? Open-Data Replication articles An "Open-Data replication" manuscript reports the independent analysis of openly available data from a recently published paper. The core of an "Open-Data Replication" is the replication of the original paper's core analyses of these data but using independent code. The ensuing findings must be quantitatively compared to those of the original paper. Authors are invited to include additional findings, discrepancies or interpretive insights that derive from the open-data and that may help with broader contextualization. A necessary condition for this paper type is that the data in the original report must be publicly available in a format that permits a complete analysis pipeline. An "Open-Data Replication" manuscript should be structured with a Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and a brief Discussion. The title must include the title of the original research article on which the replication is based followed by '- Open-Data Replication'. For example, an "Open-Data replication" of ? Auditory cortex activity related to perceptual awareness versus masking of tone sequences AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 25 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/ynirp 3 Would have the title: ? Auditory cortex activity related to perceptual awareness versus masking of tone sequences - Open-Data Replication The Introduction should provide a brief description of the methodology and findings of the original article on which the "Open-Data Replication" is based and outline the main component being replicated in the present paper. The Methods should provide a complete description of the independent analysis applied to the data used to perform the replication. It should describe the origin of the new code used and any substantive differences from the original data. This Methods should also include (1) The type of data the replication is based on, (2) The data format, (3) Acquisition methods and parameters, (4) Any preprocessing and de-identification; (5) The data source location(s); (6) Accessibility and data repository, including instructions for accessing the data and (7) An ethics statement. These details may be presented in Table form where expedient. The Results section should individually describe the results of the original and replicated outcomes. Any additional analyses of the open data can also be presented, but the distinction between the replicated and new analyses must be made clear. The Discussion section should detail any discrepancies between the two sets of results as well as any additional finding or interpretive insights. It should also detail likely reasons for any discrepancies identified and state whether the present paper constitutes a successful replication of the original findings. The CRediT author statement and acknowledgement should follow the same principles as standard papers. An "Open-Data Replication" can be based on any article from any journal as long as it is within the scope of Neuroimage Reports. "Open-Data Replications" based on papers published in either Neuroimage of Neuroimage: Clinical will be published in Neuroimage Reports with a full waiver of the Article Publishing Cost (APC). Reviewers of papers under assessment at NeuroImage or NeuroImage: Reports could consider preparing an Open-Data Replication report following acceptance of any target paper which contains publicly available data. "Open-Data Replications" based on papers originally published in any other journal will be subject to an APC (see Open Access guidelines). All Open data replications should be submitted directly to Neuroimage: Reports. Contact details for submission Papers should be submitted using the NeuroImage:Reports online submission system, http:// www.editorialmanager.com/ynirp. For questions on the submission or reviewing process, please contact the Editorial Office prior to submission: [email protected]. Submission checklist You can use this list

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