Developmental Brain Research

Aims & Scope

Incorporated into Brain Research.

Brain Research is dedicated to publishing the highest quality and greatest impact articles within the ever-evolving field of Neuroscience.

We recognize how technology has changed the way scientific breakthroughs are communicated and Brain Research is committed to serving as a dynamic journal meeting the needs of the neuroscience research community.

We now offer multiple formats for scientists to share their work with the community.

These include Short Reports, Technology Developments, and Commentaries, in addition to standard research articles and reviews that the journal has published in its storied 50-year history.

Brain Research is a broad-format journal accepting manuscripts from across the international neuroscience community that range in scope from issues in fundamental neurobiology to translational and clinical neuroscience, there are contemporary themes within neuroscience that our Editorial Board has identified that are of particular innovation and interest because of their innovation and importance, highlighted below.

The journal is further committed to studies that investigate sex-differences as a powerful cross-cutting variable within these high-interest areas.

Consistent with our mission, however, Brain Research remains enthusiastic to publish any neuroscience-oriented work that advances the field in a meaningful way.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Microglia derive from progenitors, originating from the yolk sac, and which proliferate in the brain

  Citation: 697

  Authors: Francoise, Isabelle, Bernard

• NGF-Mediated increase of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) in the neonatal rat forebrain: Evidence for a physiological role of NGF in the brain?

  Citation: 610

  Authors: H., F., R., M.E., H.

• Neocortical histogenesis in normal and reeler mice: A developmental study based upon [3H]thymidine autoradiography

  Citation: 482

  Authors: Verne S.

• Transition between immature radial glia and mature astrocytes studied with a monoclonal antibody to vimentin

  Citation: 457

  Authors: Sarah K.R., Jean

• Nestin mRNA expression correlates with the central nervous system progenitor cell state in many, but not all, regions of developing central nervous system

  Citation: 420

  Authors: Jonas, Michael, Urban

• Brain damage induced by prenatal exposure to dexamethasone in fetal rhesus macaques. I. Hippocampus

  Citation: 416

  Authors: Hideo, Lon, Carol, Joseph W., Michael J., Ellen B., Philip M.

• Evidence for dopamine receptor pruning between adolescence and adulthood in striatum but not nucleus accumbens

  Citation: 384

  Authors: Martin H., Susan L., John C.

• Sex-specific effects of prenatal stress on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress and brain glucocorticoid receptor density in adult rats

  Citation: 371

  Authors: Cheryl M., James W., Shakti, Michael J.

• Identification of radial glial cells within the developing murine central nervous system: studies based upon a new immunohistochemical marker

  Citation: 334

  Authors: Jean-Paul, Michael A., Miyuki, Verne S.

• Kainic-acid-induced seizures: A developmental study

  Citation: 332

  Authors: Bruce J., Solomon L., Reiko