WORLD NEUROSURGERY AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.1 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.7 ISSN: 1878-8750 DESCRIPTION . World Neurosurgery has an open access mirror journal World Neurosurgery: X which has the same aims and scope, editorial board and peer-review process. To submit to World Neurosurgery: X visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/WNSX/default.aspx. The journal's mission is to: To provide a first-class international forum and a 2-way conduit for dialogue that is relevant to neurosurgeons and providers who care for neurosurgery patients. The categories of the exchanged information include clinical and basic science, as well as global information that provide social, political, educational, economic, cultural or societal insights and knowledge that are of significance and relevance to worldwide neurosurgery patient care. To act as a primary intellectual catalyst for the stimulation of creativity, the creation of new knowledge, and the enhancement of quality neurosurgical care worldwide. To provide a forum for communication that enriches the lives of all neurosurgeons and their colleagues; and, in so doing, enriches the lives of their patients. Topics to be addressed in World Neurosurgery include: EDUCATION, ECONOMICS, RESEARCH, POLITICS, HISTORY, CULTURE, CLINICAL SCIENCE, LABORATORY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES, CLINICAL IMAGES, VIDEOS IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 2.104 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . PubMed/Medline Science Citation Index Scopus Embase AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 29 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/wneu 1 EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Edward C. Benzel, Emeritus Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery; Experience Officer & Director of Professional Development, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue / S-40, Cleveland OH 44195, Cleveland Ohio, United States of America Managing Editor Christine M. Moore, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio, United States of America Section Editors BrainStem Oliver Bozinov, University Hospital Zurich Clinic for Neuro-surgery, Zürich, Switzerland Communicating through Clinical Images Garnette Sutherland, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Cranial Base Kenan Arnautovic, Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America Hamid Borghei-Razavi, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, United States of America Atul Goel, King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Mumbai, India Deepak Khatri, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America Varun Kshettry, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Basant K. Misra, PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India Devi Prasad Patra, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America Pablo Recinos, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Amey Savardekar, Ochsner LSU Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America Henry Schroeder, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany Critical Care Fernando Goldenberg, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Christos Lazaridis, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Doing More with Less Russell Andrews, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California, United States of America Peter Nakaji, Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America Luis Robles, Hospiten Hospital, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Education Martin Stienen, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America Francesco Tomasello, University of Messina, Messina, Italy Endocrine & Pituitary Maleeha Ahmad, Stanford University, Paris, France James Evans, , United States of America Daniel Prevedello, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America Pablo Recinos, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Endovascular Nimer Adeeb, Ochsner-Louisiana State University Hospital, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America Azam Ahmed, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America Jonathan Brisman, Neurological Surgery PC, Rockville Centre, New York, United States of America Reza Dashti, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America Christopher Griessenauer, Geisinger Medical Center Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America Kimberly Kicielinski, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Edwin Mogere, The Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Nina Z. Moore, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Devi Prasad Patra, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America Gustavo Pradilla, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America Daniel Raper, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America Amey Savardekar, Ochsner LSU Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 29 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/wneu 2 Clemens M. Schirmer, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States of America Vinayak Narayan, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, United States of America Epilepsy Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America Jun Park, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Edie Zusman, NorthBay Medical Center, Piedmont, California, United States of America From the Annals of Philip E. Stieg, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America Paolo Cappabianca, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia, Naples, Italy Great Hospitals Russell Andrews, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California, United States of America History & Culture Russell Andrews, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California, United States of America Alexandru Vlad Ciurea, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucuresti, Romania Hydrocephalus & CSF Pathyway Pathologies Richard Edwards, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, United Kingdom Infection G. Alexander Jones, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America Samer Elbabaa, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Orlando, Florida, United States of America Leonidas Quintana, University of Valparaiso School of Medicine, Vina del Mar, Chile Kenichi Nishiyama, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan James R. Van Dellen, BUPA Cromwell, London, United Kingdom Instrumentation Non-Spine Ying Mao, Fudan University Huashan Hospital Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai, China Amir Samii, International Neuroscience Institute Hannover GmbH, Hannover, Germany Molecular Biology Andrew Kanner, Tel Aviv University, Rabin Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery, Petah Tikva, Israel Kan-Suen Jenny Pu, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Steven Toms, Lifespan Health System, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America Tatsuya Abe, Saga University, Department of Neurosurgery, Saga, Japan Maleeha Ahmad, Stanford University, Paris, France Neuropathology Murat Gokden, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America Neuroradiology/Imaging Scott M. Johnson, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America David Mihal, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Garnette Sutherland, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Neurosurgery Nursing Andrea L. Strayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America Pain Jeffrey A. Brown, , United States of America Tanmoy Maiti, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Alfio Spina, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy Oren Sagher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America Pediatrics Samer Elbabaa, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Orlando, Florida, United States of America J. Gordon McComb, CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles, California, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 29 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/wneu 3 Tanya Minasian, Loma Linda University Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda, California, United States of America Catherine McClung Smith, Palmetto Health – University of South Carolina Neurosurgery, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America Peripheral Nerve Ian E. McCutcheon, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America Rajiv Midha, , Canada Robert J. Spinner, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America Radiosurgery Maleeha Ahmad, Stanford University, Paris, France Politics, Socioeconomic & Legal Jeremy Phelps, INTEGRIS Spine and Neurological Surgery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America Caroline Chung, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America J. Adair Prall, Neurosurgery One, Littleton, Colorado, United States of America Antonio Meola, Stanford University, Stanford,