Editorials

In 2022, we began a pilot to facilitate data sharing for manuscripts submitted to Nature Neuroscience. Here, we analyze its effects on research data availability and reflect on the importance of facilitating open science.

As 2023 draws to a close, the Nature Neuroscience editors reflect on the year in neuroscience and in our pages.

As Nature Neuroscience celebrates its 25th anniversary year, we thought this would be a good time to reflect on the value that our journal, and other peer-reviewed journals, provide to our authors, our readers, and society.

This month, Nature Neuroscience celebrates the 25th anniversary of our first issue. To mark the occasion, we reflect on the past quarter of a century of the journal and the field, and look to the future.

Neuroscientists may wish to remain above the fray. But, when policy-makers and judges are deciding on matters that could be informed by their research, neuroscientists must lend their voices to the discussion.

A 2022 paper reported a caveat about brain–behavior relationships emerging from neuroimaging data, which then unintentionally cast an entire field and a neuroscientific method into doubt… again.

The authors of primary research papers accepted by our journal have the opportunity to make their work freely available to all upon publication.

As 2021 winds down, we reflect on how our field has progressed with regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion since 2020, and how far we still have to go.

Nature Neuroscience is becoming a hub for informed and insightful discourse.

In this special issue, we present a series of reviews, perspectives and commentaries that highlight advances in methods and analytical approaches and provide guidelines and best practices in various areas of neuroscience.

An overlooked bias in research practices and current global events call for a broader approach to addressing issues of diversity.

In this special issue of Nature Neuroscience, we feature an assortment of reviews and perspectives that explore the topic of learning and memory.

Our May issue marks Nature Neuroscience’s 20th anniversary. We reflect here on how the journal has evolved and what’s to come.

Neuroscience is not spared from wrestling with gender disparity issues. Progress toward more balanced representation has been slow, but improvement is possible with consistent and focused efforts.

This month, Nature Neuroscience presents a special issue featuring reviews and opinion pieces on the theme of spatial cognition.

Reproducibility initiatives seek to promote greater transparency and sharing of scientific reagents, procedures and data. Less recognized is the need to share data analysis routines. Nature Neuroscience is launching a pilot project to evaluate the efficacy of sharing code.

The validity of conclusions drawn from functional MRI research has been questioned for some time now. Nature Neuroscience and Nature Communications are committed to working with neuroimaging researchers to improve the robustness and reproducibility of their work.

We present a special issue highlighting considerations and recent developments in noninvasive techniques that improve our understanding of neural measurements in humans, bridging the gap between human and animal research in neuroscience.

We present a special set of Review articles on neuroimmune communication that highlight how the immune system and nervous system are anatomically connected, mechanistically communicate and reciprocally influence the other's function.