SNMMI Publications Committee Report

SNMMI Board of Directors, June 2014

Committee Charges:

·  To coordinate all SNMMI publication activities; to continuously monitor the needs of the field and to suggest new publications; to oversee publication of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

·  To evaluate the desirability of publications projects presented to the society.

·  To research and respond to publishing trends in the field of nuclear medicine. This can include book topics, book and journal publishers, new medical journals, medical journal practices and article topics, and journal peer-review practices and technologies.

·  To research and respond to trends in the publishing industry. This can include print and electronic publishing technologies, and journal peer-review practices and technologies.

·  To survey and respond to the SNMMI membership and journal readership regarding the society's publications.

Progress to Date:

SNMMI Journals: JNM/JNMT

·  JNM continues in good health. Submissions have maintained at the same level: 1,160 in 2013 vs. 1,178 in 2012. The overall acceptance rate has also maintained, at 29%.

·  More than 74% of 2013 submissions were from outside the U.S., from 46 countries.

·  JNM’s receipt-to-publication turnaround time is 5.2 months to online (ahead of print) and 7 months to print publication.

·  The JNM Editors’ Strategic Planning Meeting was held in Miami on February 1-2. The meeting had strong attendance and was very productive. The editor-in-chief and associate editors discussed and made decisions on:

§  Improving the impact factor

§  Rejecting more papers up front to further decrease the acceptance rate

§  Keeping the backlog as low as possible

§  Reducing the turnaround, particularly to publication ahead of print

§  Publishing open access articles

§  Holding articles to the shortest and most effective length

Approved minutes will be forwarded to the committee.

·  A JNM supplement, “PET/MR Imaging: Potential Research and Clinical Applications,” guest edited by Johannes Czernin, MD, mailed with the June 2014 JNM.

·  At the end of FY2013, subscriptions were at 98% of budget. A fast-increasing percentage of journal “subscription” revenue (now 33%) comes from nontraditional areas—multi-site licenses, consortia-based subscriptions and royalty-based distribution—compared to 2% just five years ago. Of the remaining individual and institutional subscriptions, more than 35% are now online-only (compared to 30% last year).

·  Taken together, the JNM cost centers were $20,371 better than budget for net revenue in FY2013.

·  Social bookmarking has now been implemented for JNM and JNMT. Readers can now easily share articles from the journals’ websites using one of 9 social networks including, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and CiteULike.

·  JNMT statistics: JNMT also is in good health. In CY2013, 101 manuscripts were submitted, an increase of 42% over last year. Of those, 74 (74%) were accepted. Turnaround was down significantly to just over 5 months from submission to print and 3.4 months from submission to online publication. Page count for the year was 368.

Molecular Imaging Journal (Decker)

·  Decker Publishing, publisher of the journal, has moved the journal to an online-only, open access model as of January 2014. Rather than by subscriptions, the journal is now supported by fees of $1,900/article for authors from developed countries or $950 for authors from developing countries. SNMMI authors receive a 25% discount; CMIIT members receive a 50% discount if they submit 2 papers within a year. At this point in time, the transition appears to have been very successful.

Books

·  SNMMI has completed an agreement with IOP Publishing (née the Institute of Physics) for a joint book publication program. IOP will work with an SNMMI editorial board, chosen by the Publications Committee, to develop book ideas and associated author choices, then IOP will handle development and production. The books will be cobranded and sold by both organizations.

·  SNMMI has a monograph in development: Radiobiology and Dosimetry of Alpha Particle Emitters for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy, with manuscript submission scheduled for August 2014. Revision of the Guide to Nuclear Medicine Diagnosis and Therapy is under consideration.

·  SNMMI-TS published one book this fiscal year: Quick-Reference Protocols for Nuclear Medicine Technologists was published in February and is selling very well. In addition, the Technologist section has 2 books in production, for release in this fiscal year: the NCT Study Guide, 2d ed, and Basic Science of Nuclear Medicine – The Bare Bone Essentials, by Kai H. Lee, PhD. Four more books are in development; in addition, a new task force is planning a set of short, single-topic “mini-books.”

Advertising and Other

·  As of May 11, publication advertising is on target except for Uptake.