The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

Lots of people look for good academic resources on tinnitus. What’s the leading tinnitus journal out there today? From what I can garner, there aren’t many tinnitus specific journals. The majority of tinnitus research is essentially a subfield of neuroscience research at either the cellular or brain-imaging based level, so I think the bulk of tinnitus research appears in medical journals and neuroscience journals.

I have been able to find a dedicated tinnitus journal, however, and that’s the International Tinnitus Journal. Some details from their wikipedia page:

The International Tinnitus Journal is a peer-reviewedmedical journal that was established in 1995. It covers all aspects of tinnitus. Until 2010, the journal was published by the Martha Entenmann Tinnitus Research Center (State University of New York) in cooperation with the Neurootologisches Forschungsinstitut der 4-G-Forschung e.V. (Bad Kissingen, Germany), and edited by Claus-Frenz Claussen, Abraham Shulman, Barbara Goldstein, and Michael Seidman. It is published biannually and is the official journal of the Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, and Chemical Abstracts. In 2010, the Association of Otorhinolaryngology of the Federal District (Brasilia, Brazil) became the new owner of the International Tinnitus Journal and Carlos A. Oliveira (University of Brasilia) took over as editor-in-chief.

Actually, the international tinnitus journal published the Notched White Noise study that is one of the experiments that AudioNotch’s sound therapy is based on. Here’s Carlos Oliviera writing in an editorial in the latest journal issue:

The International Tinnitus Journal is alive and now begins to thrive. This makes us very happy because our efforts during the past couple of years are giving good results now.

We are now issuing the first journal of 2013 and we will issue the second one on time next december. This way we achieve the regularity which is certainly very important for a credible publication.

We are receiving good papers from all over the world and this is specialy rewarding for us because we want to be a truly international journal. Not only Europe and America but Asia, Africa, and all the emerging countries are encouraged to send papers to ITJ. They will be welcome and their papers will be carefully reviewed and puiblished if they have scientific merit.

Our decision to open the journal in the web for free consultation and download of articles proved to be wise. Articles published in ITJ are being more visible and because of this more cited and we are now having a regular flow of good papers. This is also very important because we can review and prepare the papers ahead of time and this way achieve the regularity in publication of new issues.

We want to say thank you for the authors that are trusting their papers to us and tell them we know this is the most important thing to make up a good journal:

Having good papers to publish.

With your help we will make ITJ better and better in the next few years,

So help us God.

Best wishes for all our authors and readers from our team at ITJ.

Professor Carlos A Oliveira, MD., PhD.
Chairman of The International Tinnitus Journal.