TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: A Message from the Editor-in-Chief JF - eneuro JO - eNeuro DO - 10.1523/ENEURO.0162-15.2016 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - ENEURO.eN-ED-2016-01 AU - Christophe Bernard Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://www.eneuro.org/content/3/1/ENEURO.eN-ED-2016-01.abstract N2 - Dear friends and colleagues,Happy New Year to you and to eNeuro.Last year, when I was appointed as the first editor-in-chief of eNeuro, I was both excited and scared. I was excited to be given this opportunity to build a new model for scholarly publishing, but I was scared because it is a big responsibility. My chief motivation was and will always be to provide the neuroscience community with the most effective and powerful tool to publish open access online research.At the core of eNeuro is our commitment to provide authors with a fair assessment of their work while ensuring that we publish only excellent science. In order to do that we need to meet three requirements: authors must be able to identify respected scientists in the field to serve as Reviewing Editors, we must deliver a fair reviewing process, and we must provide a clear decision.Here’s how eNeuro is meeting those requirements: eNeuro has an extensive panel of 58 Reviewing Editors (which will expand), all active top scientists, with an equal gender (50-50) and geographical (50 percent non-US-based) distribution.We have established a double-blind system. Wherever possible reviewers cannot identify the authors when … ER -