Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to Frontiers in Neuroscience
Special Research Topic "From raw MEG/EEG to publication: how to
perform MEG/EEG group analysis with free academic software". The idea
is to create a collection of well-described group analyses of EEG and
MEG data that can be fully reproduced by anyone and ported by
researchers to their own data. Furthermore, as the analyses will be
endorsed by peer review, any analysis choices will be citeable in
future publications. This will hopefully contribute to wider adoption
of good practices by the MEG/EEG research community.
For you this is an opportunity to create the ultimate reference for
those exciting analyses in your papers that everyone keeps asking you
about and increase the impact of the methods you developed on the work
of others. Furthermore, by investing some time and effort now into
preparing your paper, you can save yourself much more time and efforts
in the future by using this resource to train junior researchers in
your group and those of your collaborators.
We are sorry for the long list of requirements for prospective
submissions but these are necessary to ensure that your papers are
really useful for other researchers and will remain useful for at
least the next decade. The requirements should be straightforward to
comply with.
Finally, we know that the 'Frontiers' brand has attracted some
criticism due to their controversial promotion and marketing
techniques. However, at present Frontiers and particularly the section
on Brain Imaging Methods seems to be the most convenient platform for
this project and they are able to provide adequate technical and
administrative support for all its stages. As the topic editors we
will do everything possible to ensure professional and transparent
review for all submissions.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.
With best wishes,
The topic editors:
Arnaud Delorme
Alexandre Gramfort
Vladimir Litvak
Sri Nagarajan
Robert Oostenveld
Francois Tadel