Neurorehabilition and Neural Repair
Publisher’s Report
September2007
Contents
A Letter from NNR’s Executive Sponsor
Editorial Development
SAGE’s Role in the Development of NNR
The NNR Editorial Board’s Role in the Development of NNR
Journal Activity Summary
Circulation and Readership
Production
Abstracting & Indexing
Thomson Scientific JCR® Ranking and Impact Factor
NNR Online
Marketing
Marketing Highlights
Conferences
Additional Promotional Activities
Print and Online Advertising
Publicity
Institutional Marketing
Appendix A: Promotional Materials
Appendix B: Additional Citation Data
Ranking in Thomson Scientific Category
Cited Journal: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Citing Journal: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Appendix C: NNR’s Publishing Team at SAGE
A Letter from NNR’s Executive Sponsor
Dear ASNR Board of Directors,
The Publisher’s Report that accompanies this letter provides you with a detailed review of the Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair operations in 2007. As the Executive Sponsor of the journal at SAGE, I endorse this report, and I would like to take this opportunity to share with you briefly some of our recent corporate highlights.
SAGE Journals Online Enhanced. Ongoing research of the library market tells us that driving online usage of our journals is of paramount importance, as in the near future, institutional purchasing decisions will largely be influenced by the amount of online activity a journal receives. Our marketing efforts are specifically designed to drive that activity. In addition, in 2006, we redesigned our online journals’ platform, SAGE Journals Online, to enhance the online user’s experience with the goal that users will stay longer and delve ever deeper into your journal’s content.
SAGETRACK Online Manuscript Submission System Launched. In 2006, we made a commitment to provide an online manuscript submission system to all the journals we publish. SAGETRACK, a state-of-the-art online manuscript submission system, now hosts over 70 SAGE journals, including NNR, and we look forward to transitioning many more of our publications onto the system. SAGETRACK is already getting high marks from editors, reviewers, and authors. They have noted that the system eases the administrative burden in the editorial office (creating savings in time and money), facilitates the submission of manuscripts (increasing the number of papers to consider, particularly from international authors), and in some cases decreases the time from submission to first decision.
Sales Team Expanded. In 2006, we enlarged the sales team that presents our portfolio to institutions around the globe. This group negotiates agreements with library consortia (groups of libraries that purchase together). With each deal they close, this team brings your journal to an ever-expanding readership.
SAGE Asia-Pacific Opened. In November 2006, we enhanced our long-standing presence in Asian markets with the opening of SAGE Asia-Pacific in Singapore. Coordinated through this new office, we now have staff based in China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia, covering all the major markets in the area through visits to key institutions, meetings with consortia, and supporting SAGE’s presence at conferences. SAGE Asia-Pacific complements SAGE India, an enterprise we established in 1981, which now has five sales offices based on the India subcontinent and provides us with an export sales presence throughout south Asia.
We expect that all these efforts will show significant results for NNR in 2007 and look forward to our continuing collaboration. We are proud to be your publishing partner, and we pledge to do all we can to assist the American Society of Neurorehabilitation to further its mission through Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.
Sincerely,
Dr. Peter Binfield
Editorial Director of Journals and NNR’s Executive Sponsor
Editorial Development
Some of SAGE’s current points of emphasis across our entire journals program are editorial quality and development, so we are especially pleased that NNRconsistently publishes such high quality content under the capable guidance of EditorBruce Dobkin, MD, FRCP. Below you will find some areas in which we are currently working in an effort to make NNReven more successful, as well as some ways that the editorial board can help us ensure that NNRremains a journal of choice for top authors to both submit their articles and to search for relevant content for citation.
SAGE’s Role in the Development of NNR
- Increasing electronic usage and citations. We will continue to arrange free-access trials and other promotions to encourage online usage.
- Analysis and reporting. More detailed analysis of electronic usage and enhanced reporting tools will help us form an accurate picture of the readership of the journal, the most popular content, and howNNR’s content is found and accessed.
- Thomson Scientific ranking. Publishing ahead of print, distribution of press releases announcing articles of special import, and vigorously promoting online usage will help to increase NNR’s citations and ranking inthe Journal Citation Reports®.
- Table of contents alerts. A major objective in 2007 for SAGEis to promote our Contents Alerting service and increase the number of people signing up. Our Contents Alerting service is a sure way of bringing users to NNR’s webpage.
The NNR Editorial Board’sRole in theDevelopment of NNR
An active editorial board is a key asset to any successful journal, and we appreciate the support that the NNR editorial board provides. Here are some suggestions of ways an active editorial board can be most effective:
- Promotion. Refer to the journal whenever possible: in presentations, press releases, and professional discussions. Encourage your institution and those of your colleagues to subscribe to the journal. If you are attending any local, regional, or national conferences at which NNR might be well received, notify your marketing manager, Tina Papatsos, who will be happy to supply you with marketing materials and journal samples to take to the conference.
- Strategic support.Participate in editorial board meetings to assist the editor with journal development and planning.
- Recruitment. Inform the editor of late-breaking research, events or potential papers for recruitment. Proactively commission articles from highly cited authors.
- Manuscript development. Help contributors bring their concepts to fruition as articles. Identify and recruit other potential reviewers and authors for the journal.
- Increase usage.Assign NNR articles for course reading, ifappropriate and applicable. Cite NNR articles in upcoming papers, as applicable.
Journal Activity Summary
Circulation and Readership
Expanding Institutional Access via Consortial Sales & Developing World Initiatives
The ways in which libraries are purchasing journals has changed. Many libraries still purchase individual titles directly from the publisher or their subscription agent; we consider this a “traditional” institutional subscription. In recent years, however, more and more libraries have joined together into buying groups, called “consortia,” through which they negotiate with publishers to buy packages of journals. SAGE now has a sales team dedicated to selling to individual libraries and to consortia. Just in the last year, we negotiated a number of major consortia deals in which NNR is included. This now means that many more institutions, both domestic and international, have access to NNR, as detailed in the circulation table below. It also means that some “traditional” library subscriptions have migrated from a traditional to a consortial subscription.
The following chart details how many traditional and consortial institutions now have access to NNR. As you can see, NNR had 1035 total subscribers by the end of 2006, but due to recently-signed consortia agreements, we can now report that the journal has approximately 1328 subscribers—an increase of more than 28 percent over this time last year!
NNR Circulation 2005 – YTD 2007Subscriber / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / ’06 – ’07 Change
Individuals / 22 / 25 / 17 / -32.0%
Members / 509 / 291 / 401 / 37.8%
Institutions – SubTotal / 368 / 719 / 910 / 26.6%
Institutions – Traditional1 / 180 / 181 / 179 / -1.1%
Consortia Members2 / 188 / 538 / 731 / 35.9%
Total Subscribers / 899 / 1035 / 1328 / 28.3%
1Libraries purchasing NNR directly from SAGE. This is a combination of print only, e-access, and combined subscriptions.
2Groups of libraries joining together to buy packages of titles, including NNR. There may be a few traditional subscribers in this number, e.g., libraries which have migrated to a consortial arrangement but have not yet cancelled their original direct subscription.
Sale and Lease of NNR’s Backfile
In 2006, SAGE invested heavily in the digitization of the backfiles of all SAGE journals, including NNR in order to enable electronic access to older content and to provide additional revenue through the sale and lease of this content. Deep backfile, that is, journal content from Volume 1, Issue 1 through the final issue of 1998, is now available for lease and purchase for the majority of SAGE journals. Content from January 1999 to the present continues to be included in the current subscription.
The deep backfile for NNRis available via annual subscription (lease) or purchase to institutions that hold a current subscription to the journal. Libraries and consortia can also lease or purchase the journal’s deep backfile as part of the SAGE Deep Backfile Package, which includes the deep backfile for over 300 SAGE journals.
SAGE Premier
One way that NNR content is available to consortia is through the SAGE Premier package of journals, which includes the entire SAGE portfolio (currently 452 titles). Sales of SAGE Premier are negotiated on a case-by-case basis by our sales team and theyare typicallyarrived atby determining how much a given consortium pays SAGE for all the SAGE journals to which it currently subscribes (e.g. it may receive 300 titles). We thencharge the consortiuman additional fee (known as the incremental consortia revenue) to allow each member institution to gain access to all of our journals. The advantages of this sort of deal are thatall SAGE content is more widely disseminated and, hence, used; additional 'new' revenueis gained by SAGE and the participating titles; the consortium is less ableto cancel its primary subscriptions; and the consortium is able to better predict what its future spending will be with SAGE.
In aSAGE Premier sale, everyjournal which was part of theoriginal holdings of the consortium will receive its full subscription revenue(i.e.it willexperience no reduction in revenue by being part of the deal) and a share of the incremental consortia revenue. As for the incremental revenue, this amountisdistributed among all 452 titles that currently comprise the deal regardless of whether or not they were originally subscribed to.The revenue is shared according to a weighting formula, which takes into account the subscription price of each journal and the number of subscriptions it has in total.By these allocations, all journals that are part of SAGE Premier will see more revenue as a result of being in a deal: journals already held by a consortium will continue to see their full revenue plus a share of the incremental revenue, and journals that were not originally held by the consortium will now receive a share of the incremental revenue. In reality, because of the number of journals involved, the incremental revenue is not a large sum for any single journal, sothe main benefit should be viewed asthe increased exposure and usage that a participating journal will receive and the decreased likelihood of cancellations going forward.
The chart below illustrates the consortia that can currently access NNR through the SAGE Premier package of journals.
Consortia PurchasingNNR through SAGE PremierConsortium / Acronym/Description
HEAL-LINK / Hellenic Academic Libraries (Greece)
ANKOS / Turkish Consortium
BIBSAM / National Libraries of Sweden
CBUC / Consortia de Biblioteque Universitaries de Catalunya (SPAIN)
CILEA / Italian Consortium
EIFL / Slovenian Consortium
FINELIB / Finnish Consortium
Couperin / French Consortium
Niedersachen / German Consortium
OPEN / Spanish Consortium
UKB / National Libraries of the Netherlands
CSIC / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
HeBIS / German Consortium
IREL / Ireland Consortium
NEICON / Russian Consortium
SASLI / South African Consortium
TSUS / TexasStateUniversity Library System
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Production
Editorial Page Budget
The page budget for Volume 20 ofNNRwas a maximum of 384 editorial pages over 4 issues, but for Volume 21 was increased to 480 editorial pages over 6 issues, with a recent amendment to allow an additional 30 pages in Volume 21. This means the journal’s page budget for Volume 21 is an average 85 editorial pages per issue. As the table below shows, the journal averaged just over 76 editorial pages per issue in 2006, which was under the editorial page budget. Through the first five issues of 2007, the journal is averaging just over 91 pages per issue, which projects just over the editorial page budget.
NNR Page Budget 2006 – YTD 20072006
20.1 / 20.2 / 20.3 / 20.4 / - / - / Annual / % of Annual
Mar / Jun / Sep / Dec / - / - / Total / Budget / Budget
Editorial Pages allotted / 96 / 96 / 96 / 96 / - / - / - / 384 / -
Editorial Pages used / 1081 / 112 / 87 / 88 / - / - / 307 / - / 80%
Color figures / 1 / 5 / 1 / 0 / - / - / 7 / 4 / 175%
2007
21.1 / 21.2 / 21.3 / 21.4 / 21.5 / 21.6 / YTD / Annual / % of Annual
Jan/Feb / Mar/Apr / May/Jun / Jul/Aug / Sep/Oct / Nov/Dec / Total / Budget / Budget
Editorial Pages allotted / 85 / 85 / 85 / 85 / 85 / 85 / 425 / 510
Editorial Pages used / 100 / 96 / 87 / 79 / 95 / TBD / 457 / - / 108%2
Ads / 4 / 4 / 1 in issue, 2 cover / 2 in issue, 2 in cover / 1 / TBD / 15 / - / -
Total pages / 104 / 100 / 90 / 84 / 96 / TBD / 474 / - / -
1 238 – 130 paid for by WCNR
2 Projected
Publish Ahead of Print
SAGE OnlineFirst is a feature offered on the homepage of NNR through SAGE Journals Online. It allows final revision articles (completed articles in queue for assignment to an upcoming issue) to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final NNR print and online issue. This feature is commonly referred to as “publish ahead of print,” “publish before print,” “continuous publishing,” and “P>P.”
SAGE OnlineFirst provides clear benefits to all researchers and users of NNR’s online content. The feature allows subscribers and members the ability to access the very latest papers in the field. Authors also benefit from greatly reduced lead times between submission and publication of articles. Without OnlineFirst, an author's work would only appear online once a “finalized” NNR issue was sent to print. However, with OnlineFirst, NNR manuscripts can appear online while other articles are being completed for an upcoming issue. An author’s research will therefore reach its audience more quickly, enabling an article to receive greater usage and exposure, including earlier citation opportunities by related work.
Each OnlineFirst NNR manuscript is citable, the official publication date being the date of the manuscript's first online posting. In place of page numbers, which are assigned along with the final issue, OnlineFirst papers are assigned DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), from the DOI Foundation ( DOIs provide a persistent, permanent way to identify manuscripts published in the online environment, even after they are assigned to a print issue and given an actual volume, issue, and first page number. Each article DOI is registered with CrossRef ( ), allowing permanent resolution to each article and giving publishers the ability to link their references to NNR articles whenever they are cited.
Once a NNR OnlineFirst article is assigned to its final issue and given its bibliographic data, such as volume, issue, and first page number, the hosting of the article online transitions from the OnlineFirst listing to that of the completed issue. In other words, users will be able to locate the article via NNR’s main archive page or the current issue link rather than the OnlineFirst page. Citations using either the DOI or the bibliographic data will both resolve to the final article. The P>P version of the article will remain available but as a version to the final article. The primary, completed article will be the prominent article found when linking into the DOI or article URL.Please visit to view all NNR OnlineFirst article postings.
SAGETRACK Online Peer Review System
SAGE is pleased to announce that a SAGETRACK Online Peer Review website was custom built to suit the needs of NNR in 2006. SAGETRACK: Powered by ScholarOne® is a powerful and dynamic system through which manuscripts are submitted, peer reviewed, revised, decided upon, and ultimately sent to SAGE. The system streamlines the submission and peer review process through its ability to host and track manuscripts from beginning to end in a user friendly, Web based environment. NNR’s SAGETRACK website went live and became available for submissions in late December 2006 and has received a total of 96 original submissions through the system to date.
NNR’s SAGETRACK website provides clear benefits to the journal’s editorial office, authors, reviewers, and the journal as a whole, and the site’s completion in 2006 is an exciting achievement. Authors are now able to submit their manuscripts online and check on the status of their submissions through SAGETRACK. Dr. Dobkin can invite reviewers through the system, who are instantly able to respond to their invitation via an email link and access the article to be reviewed from any location via the Internet. Additionally, the SAGETRACK system generates automatic email reminders and notifications, saving the editorial office valuable time and effort. Finally, accepted manuscripts can be sent to SAGE’s Production Department directly through the system for ultimate publication in the journal.
The SAGETRACK system also generates detailed reports on such items as manuscript submissions received, manuscripts in progress, and manuscripts accepted or rejected. These reporting capabilities give both NNR’s editorial office a readily available view of the number and kinds of articles submitted, accepted, and rejected, as well as statistics related to reviewer workloads, time from submission to acceptance, and acceptance/rejection rates.
The chart below illustrates the number and type of original manuscripts submitted to NNR through the SAGETRACK system since December 2006.