Journal of Sleep Research (JSR) – present status and future plans
Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemann
Professor of Clinical Psychophysiology at the Centre for Mental Disorders of Freiburg University Medical Centre, Germany.
Dieter Riemann is a full Professor of Clinical Psychophysiology at the Centre for Mental Disorders of Freiburg University Medical Centre, Germany since 1993, heading his own department – now retired since April 1, 2024. Since 2017 he is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sleep Research. His present work focuses on different aspects of insomnia including diagnostics, epidemiology, therapeutics and neurobiology.
Status of the JSR
The Journal of Sleep Research (JSR) published its first issue in 1992 and since then has become one of the leading journals in sleep research and sleep medicine world-wide. The journal is owned by the ESRS and published by Wiley. Last year, the board of the ESRS instigated an independent poll among the members of the ESRS asking for views and opinions about the journal. This poll, executed by INLEXIO, an independent company, delivered a very satisfactory picture – seemingly, a majority of ESRS members is highly satisfied with JSR. This is also reflected by the extremely high number of ongoing submissions and our Imapct Factor (IF) of 4.4. Results of the poll will be presented in detail.
At present, the world of scientific publishing is changing rapidly, the major issue being Open Access (OA) publishing. At present, JSR is a hybrid journal, meaning that many articles are still published under the traditional model, wheras as an author you can also opt for OA. In that case, you will have to cover an Article Processing Charge (ACP), which will render your work immediately accessible all around the world without any fee for your readers. In the traditional model, you will not have to pay any fee for being published, however, your work will only be accessible to institutions/ individuals subscribing (paying some fee) to JSR. Other interested parties will have to pay a fee for reading or downloading each article.
Wiley is favoring an OA policy and has developed many contracts with indivdual countries, guaranteeing that authors from these countries can publish OA in JSR without additional individual fees. Public and governmental research funding agencies too favor OA and even put pressure on researchers receiving their funding that the resulting work has to be published OA. So for now, the board of the ESRS has to deal with the questions whether to stay hybrid with JSR or fully flip to OA. We are looking forward to discuss this issue with our membership.
It is also comtemplated to create a twin journal to JSR as the present number of article submissions really has exploded in the last 2- 3 years. At present we do reject many many articles, though quite a few of them present rather sound science. However, they may lack for example in originality. So it is considered whether a twin OA journal to JSR may offer a publication outlet for this kind of work.
Recent publications from ESRS members
- Chen et al. (2024). Sleep stage continuity is associated with objective daytime sleepiness in patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea. J Clin Sleep Med.
- Wong, Nagata and Barreto (2024). Sleep and socioemotional outcomes among sexual and gender minority adolescents: A longitudinal study. Arch Sex Behav.
- Marchi et al. (2024). Altered fornix integrity is associated with sleep apnea-related hypoxemia in mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimers Dement.
- Porcheret et al. (2024). Prevalence of insomnia in a general adult population cohort using different diagnostic criteria: The seventh survey of the Tromsø study 2015-2016. Sleep Med.
- Aktan et al. (2024). Analysis of Large Muscle Movements in the Diagnosis of Possible Restless Sleep Disorder in Adult Population. Sleep.
- McDermott et al. (2024). Molecular-Level Dysregulation of Insulin Pathways and Inflammatory Processes in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Circadian Misalignment. J Proteome Res.
- Tepman and Wong (2024). Wong. The role of victimisation and sleep quality in self-harm and depression among sexual minority adolescents. A prospective cohort study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry.