European Stroke Journal
European Stroke Journal (ESJ) is the official publication of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO). ESJ is a fully peer-reviewed journal covering clinical stroke research from all fields. Published research includes, but is not limited to: clinical trials, epidemiology, primary and secondary prevention, diagnosis, acute and post-acute management, guidelines, translation of experimental findings into clinical practice, rehabilitation, organisation of stroke care, and societal impact.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Launched in 2016 the European Stroke Journal (ESJ) is the official journal of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO), a professional non-profit organization with over 1,400 individual members, and affiliations to numerous related national and international societies.
ESJ covers clinical stroke research from all fields, including clinical trials, epidemiology, primary and secondary prevention, diagnosis, acute and post-acute management, guidelines, translation of experimental findings into clinical practice, rehabilitation, organisation of stroke care, and societal impact. It is open to authors from all relevant medical and health professions. Article types include review articles, original research, protocols, guidelines, editorials and letters to the Editor.
Through ESJ, authors and researchers have gained a new platform for the rapid and professional publication of peer reviewed scientific material of the highest standards; publication in ESJ is highly competitive. The journal and its editorial team has developed excellent cooperation with sister organisations such as the World Stroke Organisation and the International Journal of Stroke, and the American Heart Organization/American Stroke Association and the journal Stroke.
ESJ is fully peer-reviewed and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Issues are published 4 times a year (March, June, September and December) and articles are published OnlineFirst prior to issue publication.
Professor Kennedy R. Lees MBChB, Bsc (Hons), MD, FRCP, FESO | University of Glasgow, UK |
Dr Else Sandset PhD | Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
Dr. Anne Hege Aamodt | Oslo University Hospital and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian |
Professor Foad Abd-Allah MD | University of Cairo, Egypt |
Dr. Azmil H. Abdul-Rahim | University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Dr Rufus Akinyemi MBBS, MSc, PhD, MWACP, FMCP | University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
Professor Grethe Andersen MD, DMSc | Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark |
Dr. Francesco Arba | Careggi University Hospital, Italy |
Prof. Daniel Bereczki | Semmelweis University Department of Neurology, Hungary |
Professor Anna Bersano | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Italy |
Associate Professor, Daniel Bos, MD, PhD | Erasmus MC – University Medical Center, The Netherlands |
Professor Michael Brainin MD, PhD, Dr (hons), FESO FAHA | Danube-University Krems, Austria |
Dr Israel Fernandez Cadenas , PhD | Sant Pau Institute of Research, Spain |
Professor Bruce Campbell | Royal Melbourne Hospital/University of Melbourne, Australia |
Professor Valeria Caso, MD, PhD, FESO | University of Perugia, Italy |
Dr Barbara Casolla, MD, PhD | Unité de Recherche Clinique Cote d'Azur-UR2CA, France |
Professor Ángel Chamorro MD PhD | University of Barcelona, Spain |
Professor Christopher Chen BMBCh (Oxon), MRCP (UK), FRCP (Edin) | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Assistant Professor, Bastian Cheng, MD | University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany |
Professor Hanne Krarup Christensen MD, PhD, DMSci, FESO | University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Denmark |
Professor Charlotte Cordonnier MD, PhD | University of Lille, France |
Professor László Csiba PhD, D.Sci.HAS | Debrecen University, Hungary |
Professor Stephen Davis AM MD FRCP Edin FRACP FAHMS | The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia |
Professor Jacques De Keyser MD,PhD | Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Belgium |
Professor Gian Marco De Marchis, MD MSc | Department of Neurology & Stroke Center, University Hospital, Switzerland |
Assistant Professor Diana Aguiar de Sousa MD, PhD | Hospital Santa Maria/CHULN, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Associate Professor Candice Delcourt | The George Institute for Global Health/University of New South Wales/Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
Professor Vida Demarin MD, PhD | International Institute for Brain Health, Croatia |
Associate Professor, Nele Demeyere, PhD | University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
Professor Martin Dichgans MD | University of Munich, Germany |
Professor Exuperio Díez Tejedor MD, PhD | Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain |
Professor Matthias Endres MD | Charite – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany |
Professor José M. Ferro MD, PhD | University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Professor Urs Fischer MD MSc | University of Bern, Switzerland |
Professor Ana Catarina Fonseca | University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Associate Professor Blanca Fuentes MD, PhD | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
Professor Zuzana Gdovinová PhD | PP.J. Šafárik University Košice, Slovakia |
Dr Jacoba P Greving | University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands |
Professor Alla Guekht MD PhD | Moscow Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry & Russian National Research Medical University, Russia |
Professor Peter Heuschmann MD, MPH | Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany |
Dr Petra Ijäs, MD, PhD, MSc, FESO | Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland |
Professor Dalius Jatuzis MD, PhD | Vilnius University, Lithuania |
Associate Professor Elias Johansson, MD, PhD | Umeå University, Sweden |
Associate Professor Katarina Jood | Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden |
Dr Mira Katan, MSc, PD | University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
Dr Aristeidis Katsanos, MD, PhD | McMaster University & Population Health Research Institute, Canada |
Dr Dearbhla Kelly MB BCh BAO MSc DPhil MRCPI MRCP(UK) | J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
Professor Peter Kelly MD MS FRCPI FESO | Mater University Hospital & University College Dublin, Ireland |
Professor Dheeraj Khurana MD, DM | Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India |
Professor Jong S. kim MD, PhD | Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea |
Professor C.J.M. Klijn MD, PhD | Radboudumc, Netherlands |
Professor Yoshihiro Kokubo MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FESO, FJSH | National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan |
Dr Janika Kõrv MD, PhD, FESO | University of Tartu, Estonia |
Associate Professor Zhe Kang Law MD, MRCP(UK), PhD, FRCP(Edin) | National University of Malaysia, Malaysia |
Prof Robin Lemmens | KU Leuven, (Belgium) |
Dr Xinyi Leng, PhD | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China |
Dr Linxin Li, DPhil | Oxford University, United Kingdom |
Professor Arne Lindgren MD, PhD | Lunds Universitet, Sweden |
Professor Perttu J. Lindsberg MD PhD | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
Professor Liping Liu MD PhD | Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China |
Professor Ming Liu MD, PhD | Sichuan University, China |
Associate Professor Nicolas Martinez-Majander | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
Professor Sheila Martins MD PhD | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
Professor Jean-Louis Mas MD, PhD | Paris Descartes University, France |
Professor Heinrich Mattle MD | University of Bern, Switzerland |
Professor Dominick J. H. McCabe PhD, FRCPI, FESO | The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Ireland |
Dr Thomas Meinel | Stroke Center Bern, Switzerland |
Professor Andreas Meisel, MD | Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Germany |
Professor Atte Meretoja MD, PhD, MSc, FRACP | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
Dr Patrik Michel MD, FESO, FAHA | Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland |
Professor Robert Mikulik MD, PhD | St. Anne's University Hospital, Czech Republic |
Professor Carlos Molina MD, PhD | Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron, Spain |
Dr Joan Montaner MD PhD | Virgen del Rocio Hospital, Spain |
Professor Thierry Moulin, MD, PhD, MSC | University of Franche-Comte, France |
Professor Maciej Niewada MD PhD | Medical University of Warsaw, Poland |
Assistant Professor George Ntaios MD, MSc, PhD | University of Thessaly Larissa, Greece |
Dr Yasushi Okada MD, PhD | National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Japan |
Dr. Lina Palaiodim | Second Department of Neurology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
Professor Jeyaraj Pandian MD DM FRACP FRCP FESO | Florey Neurosceince Institutes, India |
Professor Leonardo Pantoni MD PhD | University of Milan, Italy |
Dr Marco Pasi, PhD | CHU de Tours, Hôpital Bretonneau, France |
Professor Jesper Petersson | Institute for Clinical Sciences Lund Department of Neurology Lund University, Sweden |
Professor Alessandro Pezzini MD | Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy |
Prof. Dr. med. Marios Psychogios | University Hospital Basel, Switzerland |
Professor Jukka Putaala MD, PhD, MSc(Stroke) | Helsinki University Hospital, Finland |
Dr Terry Quinn, FWSO, FESO, FRCP, MD, MBChB, BSc | Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK |
Dr Peter Ringleb MD PhD | University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany |
Dr. Leon Rinkel | Amsterdam University Medical Centers location AMC, Netherlands & University of Calgary, Canada |
Professor Jonathan Rosand MD, MSc | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
Professor Peter Rothwell FMedSci | University of Oxford, UK |
Professor Simona Sacco MD | University of L’Aquila, Italy |
Professor Dr. Jan Scheitz | Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany |
Professor Christian Stapf MD | Université de Montréal, Canada |
Professor Thorsten Steiner MME | Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany |
Professor Daniel Strbian MD, PhD, MSc (Stroke Med),FESO | Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland |
Professor Katharina Sunnerhagen MD, PhD | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
Dr. Rossana Tassi | Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Italy |
Professor Turgut Tatlisumak MD, PhD | Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg & Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden |
Professor Vincent Thijs MD PhD | Austin Health & University of Melbourne, Australia |
Professor Danilo Toni MD, PhD, FESO | University of Rome, Italy |
Dr Kazunori Toyoda | National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan |
Professor Alexander Tsiskaridze MD PhD DSc | Tbilisi State University, Georgia |
Professor Georgios Tsivgoulis MD, PhD, MSc, FESO | National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece |
Dr H. Bart van der Worp MD, PhD | University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands |
Dr Mervyn Vergouwen MD PhD | University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands |
Jamie Verhoeven, MD | Radboud University Medical Centre, The Netherlands |
Professor Joanna Wardlaw MB ChB, MD, FRCR, FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE | University of Edinburgh, UK |
Professor Marieke J. H. Wermer, MD, PhD | Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands |
Professor David Werring FRCP PhD FESO | University College London, UK |
Dr Teddy Wu | Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand |
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