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(Stroke. 2004;35:2751.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorial

Why Publish in Stroke?

From the London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Correspondence to Dr Vladimir Hachinski, Editor-in-Chief, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, London Health Sciences Center, 339 Windermere Rd, London, ON, Canada N6A 5A5.

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Anyone publishing in Stroke has a high likelihood of reaching those who need to read the paper. This may eventually improve the way stroke patients are treated worldwide. Stroke is the number one journal in the field and therefore no one with a serious interest in the subject fails to follow the contents of each issue of the journal. 15 300 paid subscribers read Stroke and many others, including students, teachers, researchers and practitioners at 640 institutions and libraries.

We welcome "reports of clinical and basic investigation of any aspect of the cerebral circulation and its diseases from many disciplines, including neurology, cardiology, internal medicine, geriatrics, radiology, nuclear medicine, neuropathology, neurosurgery, epidemiology, vascular surgery, rehabilitation, anesthesiology, critical care medicine, vascular physiology, neuropsychology, speech pathology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and neurophthalmology" (Stroke, "Instructions to Authors").

We particularly welcome manuscripts that integrate different disciplines such as basic science with clinical work and manuscripts on topics that cut across fields. We have no quotas regarding subject, authorship or country of origin of manuscripts.

Two-thirds of the world’s strokes occur in the developing world and yet we know little about them. It is particularly difficult for authors from these countries to submit a competitive paper to Stroke. We have launched "Rewrite: An Editorial Aid Program," whereby an author from a developing country is matched to a mentor who provides guidance and advice on how to rewrite the paper in such a way that it would have a chance of being accepted by . . . [Full Text of this Article]