As I Sign in…

As I sign in, its 21st year of journalits beaming with enthusiasm of completing teenage and entering adulthood, with evolution in understanding of better quality manuscript publications with expectation of case series rather than case reports, original articles of high impact research work, etc. In the past 6 years, under able guidance of Prof. S Khadilkar, impact factor got improved from 0.44 to 0.95 and this is a new challenge for me to keep up with accelerated pace and maintain a high standard of AIAN. Dr. Ashok Panagaria and Dr. Kalyan Bhattacharya have been very kind to accept to be the senior editors at editorial board of AIAN. Their vast knowledge and guidance will act as a force of encouragement. AIAN Editorial Board is thankful to each and every reviewer (list enclosed at the end of this journal) for timely review and expert comments as well as to the authors for sending excellent manuscripts, the total count of which reached approximately 500 by the end of 2017. At this stage, I will request all senior authors to involve and encourage their juniors to write further more manuscripts. Similarly, young students in neurology must write small manuscripts under supervision of their guides, pertaining to their observations, case series, and small research projects, especially their thesis work. While sending case reports, please do check what is already published, what is significantly new in the respective case as a learning point and best would be to report case series for better readership. As the majority of readership is from neurosciences, it will be motivating to get original articles with hypothesis-based research in basic sciences, which has significant clinical implications, with translational implications to attract readers and researchers both. Thanks to Wolters Kluwer for excellent cooperation with editorial team of AIAN. It is anticipated that together we will introduce new, exciting technology in coming future.