Abstract
It is with great pleasure to introduce Cephalalgia Reports—the new barrier-free, international, peer-reviewed, online-only journal focused on headache research and management published by the International Headache Society. Just like it’s prestigious sister journal Cephalalgia, Cephalalgia Reports will cover all aspects of facial pain and headache, with the strict adherence to the high Cephalalgia standards in all aspects of quality control.
Our authors and readers 1 encouraged us to strengthen the open access to headache research and also to invite headache-interested clinicians with a focus on combining clinic and science, and by including continuing medical education (CME) articles. We, therefore, strive to meet the needs of the scientifically and the clinically interested reader who perceived their fields as underrepresented in the traditional Cephalalgia format. Cephalalgia Reports will include clinical articles from boundary areas such as pediatrics, orofacial pain, and physiotherapy. Readers and authors further suggested to publish clinical advice on headache diagnosis and treatment. Specifically, we took their recommendations to include that meaningful case reports and CME articles should publish in Cephalalgia Reports. 1 Excited by this, we are intensely interested in the submissions of hypothesis-generating papers, technical/resource reports, case reports, clinical notes, and CME papers.
The International Headache Society acknowledges the fact that confirmatory studies 2 and negative studies are pivotal for our scientific knowledge in the headache field. 3 At the same time, these studies are less likely to be cited and therefore are not easy to publish. However, the reporting of negative results can help other scientists to adjust their research plans or may contradict the established way of thinking—both situations are crucial for science and clinic. Cephalalgia Reports will consequently welcome all high-quality clinical studies with positive or negative outcome, comparative effectiveness research, dissemination/implementation research, and also hypothesis-independent (profiling) studies, as well as brief original reports, or original research that may have local, regional, or international relevance. Welcome the new kid in town—Cephalalgia Reports will teach us a lot.