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Publisher’s Report Spinal Cord & Spinal Cord Series and Cases Tuesday 13 th September 2016 ISCo. S Annual Meeting, Vienna Nickie Roake Publishing Manager

1 1 Highlights 2 Editorial Performance 3 Online Usage 4 Citations and Impact Factor 5 Journal Development 6 Marketing 7 Springer Nature

2 Highlights 2016 • • • Launched Editor’s Choice feature for both journals. “Hot Articles in Neuroscience” email campaigns. Worked with ISCo. S to set up member referral access via Society’s new website. Held two Section Editors’ conference calls. Section Editors are commissioning paid-for Reviews in Spinal Cord (SC)to increase quality of content. • Plan in place to reduce SC’s backlog. • Spinal Cord Series and Cases (SCS&C) has received 94 submissions and published 38 papers by June 2016. • SCS&C moved to continuous publication from July 2016. • Plans to introduce an immediate open access option for SCS&C by end of 2016. • SCS&C indexing update: passed Scientific Review at PMC. Addressing open access options before completing Technical Review. Target to be indexed by end of 2016.

3 Editorial Performance: Spinal Cord 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (end of Q 2) Submissions 329 333 323 378 434 181 % sent out for external review 77% 79% 81% 87% 78% 64% Time to first decision w/o review 4 6 7 12 7 9 Time to first decision postreview 37 43 31 51 57 47 52% 49% 60% 68% 54% 45% Acceptance rate • The total number of submissions by the end of June 2016 was 181. This is a 24% decrease compared to the same time last year (but 2015 was noticeably up on 2014). • The average time from manuscript submission to first decision after peer review is 47 days. This is an improvement of 10 days compared to 2015. The average time to submission to first decision without peer review is 9 days, an increase of 2 days compared to 2015. • The current rejection rate is 55%, which is an increase of 9% compared to 2015. 3

4 Editorial Performance: Spinal Cord Series and Cases 2015 2016 (end of Q 2) 61 33 78% 71% Time to first decision w/o review 7 9 Time to first decision post-review 57 47 84% 64% Submissions % sent out for external review Acceptance rate • • The total number of submissions by the end of June 2016 was 33. 8 papers have been transferred to SCS&C from SC via the official transfer option in e. JP. The rejection rate increased from 16% in 2015 to 36% by end of June 2016. The average time from manuscript submission to first decision after peer review is 47 days. This is an improvement of 10 days compared to the end of 2015. The average time to submission to first decision without peer review is 9 days, an increase of 2 days compared to the end of 2015. 4

Editorial Performance: Spinal Cord Geographic spread of submissions 2015 6% 8% Geographic spread of accepted papers 2015 15% USA and Canada 3% 1% USA and Canada 10% Europe 18% 3% 4% Middle East and India China and Japan 12% Rest of South East Asia 24% 33% Australasia Central/South America and the Caribbean islands 10% Africa Europe Australasia 7% 46% Central/South America and the Caribbean islands Africa • The highest number of submissions come from authors based in Europe (33%), China and Japan (24%) and USA and Canada (15%). • The highest number of accepted papers came from authors based in Europe (46%), USA and Canada (18%) and China and Japan (12%).

Editorial Performance: Spinal Cord Series and Cases 6 Geographic spread of submissions 2015 12% 13% Geographic spread of accepted papers 2015 12% USA and Canada 3% 4% Europe 8% Middle East and India USA and Canada 19% Europe Middle East and India 7% China and Japan 31% 18% Rest of South East Asia 16% 28% Australasia 15% Central/South America and the Caribbean islands 14% Australasia Central/South America and the Caribbean islands • In 2015 the highest number of submissions has come from authors based in Europe (31%), China and Japan (18%) and Middle East and India (15%). • The highest number of accepted papers came from authors based in Europe (28%), USA and Canada (19%) and China and Japan (16%).

7 Production: Spinal Cord • Average time to online publication remains steady at 30 business days Average time to print publication has increased to 155 business days Increased length of papers and high acceptance rate resulted in 10 month backlog, with 30 fewer papers being published within the allocated page budget compared to the same time last year. Decision taken in August 2016 to double pagination for Sept-March issues. Total content published 250 200 Papers • • • 150 100 50 0 2014 2015 7 2016 End of June

8 Production: Spinal Cord Series and Cases Publication times: • Average time to online quarterly publication = 60 business days • Average time to continuous publication = 24 business days Papers published 20 15 10 5 0 июл-15 окт-15 янв-16 8 апр-16 июл-16

2015 Online Usage: Spinal Cord 9 1 400 000 1 220 1 200 000 1 045 611 1 000 2011 800 000 2012 2013 600 000 466 580 426 742 373 330 400 000 2015 197 638 200 0 Web Page Views Article HTML Views 2014 Article PDF Views 9

2015 Online Usage: Spinal Cord Series and Cases 16 000 14 000 12 000 10 000 8 000 2015 6 000 2016 YTD 4 000 2 000 0 Total webpage views Total homepage views Total full-text (HTML + PDF) article views 10 10

Spinal Cord 2015 Impact Factor 11 Number of citations, number of source items and Impact Factor by Year 1, 826 588 1, 805 526 590 600 507 1, 899 1, 7 Impact Factor 700 636 1, 699 529 500 1, 804 1, 546 400 1, 2 346 335 288 327 293 328 300 200 0, 7 100 0, 2 Number of citations/source items 2, 2 0 2011 Impact Factor 2012 Year 2013 Number of Citations 2014 2015 Number of Source Items • Spinal Cord’s 2015 impact factor has fallen to 1. 546 from 1. 804 in 2014. Its 5 -year impact factor increases to 1. 876 from 1. 846 in 2014. • Spinal Cord falls 23 places in the Clinical Neurology JCR category and now ranks 144 th/192. • The total number of articles counting towards the denominator was 328 and the total number of citations received was 507. This is a decrease of 83 citations received compared to the 2014 impact factor. • 8% of articles were cited 4 -9 times, 45% of articles were cited 1 -3 times. • 47% of articles were not cited in 2015. 11

Top Cited Articles published in 2013 -2014, cited in 2015 (2015 IF) Publication Year Issue 2014 Authors 2 The global map for traumatic spinal cord injury epidemiology: update 2011, global incidence rate Lee, B. B. ; Cripps, R. A. ; Fitzharris, M. ; Wing, P. C. Article 17 42 2013 5 Systemic hypothermia in acute cervical spinal cord injury: a case-controlled study Dididze, M. ; Green, B. A. ; Dietrich, W. Dalton; Vanni, S. ; Wang, M. Y. ; Levi, A. D. Article 8 23 2014 8 Spinal cord injury models: a review Cheriyan, T. ; Ryan, D. J. ; Weinreb, J. H. ; Cheriyan, J. ; Paul, J. C. ; Lafage, V. ; Kirsch, T. ; Errico, T. J. Review 8 10 2013 7 Examining factors that contribute to the process of resilience following spinal cord injury Kilic, S. A. ; Dorstyn, D. S. ; Guiver, N. G. Article 7 13 Review 7 12 Article 6 9 Review 5 15 Article 5 13 Emmanuel, A. V. ; Krogh, K. ; Bazzocchi, G. ; Leroi, A-M; Consensus review of best practice of transanal irrigation in adults Bremers, A. ; Leder, D. ; van Kuppevelt, D. ; Mosiello, G. ; Vogel, M. ; Perrouin-Verbe, B. ; Coggrave, M. ; Christensen, P. New, P. W. ; Scivoletto, G. ; Smith, E. ; Townson, A. ; Gupta, A. ; International survey of perceived barriers to admission and discharge from spinal cord Reeves, R. K. ; Post, M. W. M. ; Eriks-Hoogland, I. ; Gill, Z. A. ; injury rehabilitation units Belci, M. Clinical trials in spinal cord injury: lessons learned on the path to translation. The 2011 Lammertse, D. P. International Spinal Cord Society Sir Ludwig Guttmann Lecture Reliability and validity of three functional tests in ambulatory patients with spinal cord Poncumhak, P. ; Saengsuwan, J. ; Kamruecha, W. ; Amatachaya, injury S. Article Type Cites in 2015 Total Citations Title 2013 10 2013 12 2013 1 2013 3 2013 1 Peripheral vascular function in spinal cord injury: a systematic review West, C. R. ; Al. Yahya, A. ; Laher, I. ; Krassioukov, A. Review 5 13 2013 1 Effects of chronic pain on quality of life and depression in patients with spinal cord injury Ataoglu, E. ; Tiftik, T. ; Kara, M. ; Tunc, H. ; Ersoz, M. ; Akkus, S. Article 5 13 2014 2 International Spinal Cord Injury Data Sets for non-traumatic spinal cord injury New, P. W. ; Marshall, R. Article 5 11 2013 1 Brain EEG activity correlates of chronic pain in persons with spinal cord injury: clinical Jensen, M. P. ; Sherlin, L. H. ; Gertz, K. J. ; Braden, A. L. ; Kupper, implications A. E. ; Gianas, A. ; Howe, J. D. ; Hakimian, S. Article 5 11 2013 1 New, P. W. ; Townson, A. ; Scivoletto, G. ; Post, M. W. M. ; Eriks. Hoogland, I. ; Gupta, A. ; Smith, E. ; Reeves, R. K. ; Gill, Z. A. Article 5 10 2013 5 Phonthee, S. ; Saengsuwan, J. ; Amatachaya, S. Article 5 9 2013 4 Celik, E. C. ; Erhan, B. ; Gunduz, B. ; Lakse, E. Article 5 8 2013 2 Kinematic characteristics of tenodesis grasp in C 6 quadriplegia Article 5 7 2014 5 Developing an algorithm capable of discriminating depressed mood in people with spinal cord injury Mateo, S. ; Revol, P. ; Fourtassi, M. ; Rossetti, Y. ; Collet, C. ; Rode, G. Craig, A. ; Rodrigues, D. ; Tran, Y. ; Guest, R. ; Bartrop, R. ; Middleton, J. Article 5 5 2013 7 Bladder cancer in individuals with spinal cord injuries Welk, B. ; Mc. Intyre, A. ; Teasell, R. ; Potter, P. ; Loh, E. Review 5 5 International comparison of the organisation of rehabilitation services and systems of care for patients with spinal cord injury Falls in independent ambulatory patients with spinal cord injury: incidence, associated factors and levels of ability The effect of low-frequency TENS in the treatment of neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury

Competitor Analysis The below table outlines key data for competitor titles Spine Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques Journal of Neurotrauma Impact Factor 2. 439 2. 291 4. 377 1. 578 Change on previous year +0. 142 +0. 089 +0. 663 +0. 245 Ranking in Clinical Neurology 91/192 98/192 33/192 139/192 Total number of articles published* 437 145 205 85 Total number of citations recorded 38, 769 4, 184 10, 984 1, 657

Journal Development Below are the key areas for journal development going forwards: Maintaining positive working relations with key Society representatives • Continue to hold regular meetings, including an annual development day • Assist in Editorial Office handover/ support • Support the Society in the recruitment process for a new Editor-in-Chief. Editorial focus and workflows • Review Aims and Scope of SC and SCS&C. What distinguishes them? Is SCS&C becoming more than a case reports journal? We need to develop clear independent messaging to promote both journals. • Ease of submission, prompt turnaround and high standards of peer review are key for authors when choosing where to submit. It is important to regularly review editorial workflows and to ascertain how we can make these more efficient and ever more timely. SC Impact Factor • Aspiration is to see SC achieve, and consistently maintain, an Impact Factor of over 3. Commissioning of highly quality articles and reviews, and more stringent acceptance criteria are crucial. Submission campaign to our previous highly-cited authors. Establishing and positioning SCS&C • Indexing applications, create immediate open access option and review archive embargo. Systems and content delivery • SC and SCS&C will migrate shortly to our new web content platform, providing a modern, fresh look, with improved functionality including article level metrics. We are also shortly to introduce a new production workflow. Growing revenue • As Springer Nature, and with an enhanced institutional sales base, we have developed and presented new sales models to achieve ever-more wider visibility and usage. Open access will continue to be prominent. Explore further how to draw benefits from closer collaboration with relevant Springer Nature titles e. g. Nature Outlooks, sponsored collections , book series.

Marketing Focus on: Building journal profiles and cross promoting with other relevant neuroscience journals; Sustaining readership and usage of SC and SCS&C content; Encouraging high quality author submissions. A proportion of activities this year have focused on the ISCo. S 2016 meeting including collateral for the exhibitors booth, How to Get Published booklets and branded giveaways. Below is a snapshot of some of the other recent campaigns deployed and the results generated: Campaign Channels used Results Academic Journals “Best of Neuroscience 2015” External email Email delivered to 9, 865 ISI contacts, achieving 3, 010 unique opens (31% unique open rate) with 59 unique clicks through to SC and SCS&C content SCS&C profile building and e-alert drive Online banner SCS&C web banners have received 275, 029 impressions and 438 clicks as of June 30, 2016. Print filler ad E-alert “Hot articles” in Neuroscience Email to Mktg 100 contacts (results quoted cover all featured journals in Neuroscience) “Editor’s Choice” of key articles from SC and SCS&C E-alert SC Web focus on Epidemiology and Demographics of SCI Worldwide Online banner E-alert Marketing messages encouraging e-alert sign-ups for SCS&C were booked in May 6 and June 3 SC e-alerts. These were delivered 44, 000+ registrants with 7, 744 combined unique opens and 33 clicks on the marketing message. Feb email results –received by 23, 472 contacts / 2, 600 (11. 1%) unique opens / 354 (1. 5%) unique clicks. April email results – received by 29, 468 contacts / 1, 304 (12. 1%) unique opens / 548 (1. 9%) unique clicks. May email results – received by 25, 460 contacts / 5. 1% unique opens / 248 (1%) unique clicks Marketing messages highlighting the Editor’s choice article collection were booked in May 6 and June 3 SC e-alerts. These were delivered 44, 000+ registrants with 7, 744 combined unique opens and 34 unique clicks on the marketing message. Results pending

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Any Questions? Thank you David Bull Editorial Director, Biomedicine david. bull@springernature. com Nickie Roake Publishing Manager, Biomedicine nickie. roake@nature. com