Spinal Cord is a multi-disciplinary forum for basic science, clinical and applied studies, psychology and epidemiology of spinal disorders, and is committed to the rapid publication of high quality original papers, topical reviews, editorial correspondence and occasional commentaries on controversial or ethical issues.
The new spin off to Spinal Cord, Spinal Cord Series and Cases has now been publishing articles for over a year. Spinal Cord Series and Cases is an international, online-only, subscription-based journal, which publishes articles and case reports that address all aspects of spinal anatomy, physiology and lesions (injury and disease), with new content published weekly.
Free online issue
Volume 54, No 9
September 2016
ISSN: 1362-4393
EISSN: 1476-5624
2015 Impact Factor 1.546*
144/192 Clinical Neurology
29/65 Rehabilitation
Editor-in-chief:
Professor J-J Wyndaele
*2015 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2016)
FEATURED ARTICLES
Original Article
Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in spinal cord injured patients: time to occur, time until closure and risk factorsEditor's Choice
Original Article
Forty-five-year follow-up on the renal function after spinal cord injuryM Elmelund, P S Oturai, B Toson & F Biering-Sørensen
Spinal Cord Volume 54 Number 6, June 3, 2016; doi:10.1038/sc.2015.242
NEWS
55th ISCoS Annual Scientific Meeting
Vienna, Austria
14-16 September 2016
The 55th ISCoS Annual Scientific Meeting has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 21 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s).
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers have given accreditation to this meeting – All 3 days – 19.5 CPD Hours – http://www.apil.prg.uk/accreditation-for-lawyer
For more information please visit the website: www.iscos.org.uk/meetings.
Author Benefits of publishing in Spinal Cord
- Official journal of the International Spinal Cord Society and of the Deutsche Medizinische Gesellschaft für Paraplegie (DMGP).
- Included in top indexing databases and has an impact factor of 1.804
- 620 papers published in the journal in the last three years have been cited 1,046 times!
- The journal website is hosted on www.nature.com that gets 9.4 million unique users per month
- Over 64,000 table of contents registrants and 28,000 page views to the journal webpage itself
- Easy and quick online submission system
- Rapid and rigorous peer review
- Articles published online ahead of print within 25 days of acceptance
- Open access publication option available to authors
- Free online supplementary material publication option available
- Free manuscript deposition service to Pub Med Central on behalf of non-open access authors
- Embargo period of just 6 months for all non-open access authors
- The journal content is regularly promoted alongside that of the Nature branded titles on NPG’s subject pages and in collections as well as via social media
- NPG has a number of regional websites reaching a wide and varied audience demographic www.nature.com/regions
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Open Access Publication
Authors of research articles can opt to pay an article processing charge (APC) for their accepted articles to be open access online immediately upon publication. Open access articles are published under Creative Commons licenses, which allow authors to retain copyright to their work while making it open to readers.
Visit our Open Research Site for detailed information about publishing open access.
INTERNATIONAL SPINAL CORD INJURY DATA SETS
International Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Data Sets are part of an initiative to develop a universal language for SCI centres worldwide. Their purpose is to standardize the collection and reporting of a minimal amount of information necessary to evaluate and compare results from different clinical studies.
All articles that are directly related to the International Spinal Cord Injury Data Sets may be downloaded for free from the SCI Data Sets page.
Every paper ever published in Spinal Cord or its predecessor Paraplegia is now accessible online. The digitization of the issues published prior to 1997 was fully funded by the charity SPIRIT and we are grateful for their support.
ICCP panel: Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury
Read the guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials published by Spinal Cord in association with the ICCP and visit the ICCP website
2. Clinical trial outcome measures FREE
3. Clinical trial inclusion/exclusion criteria and ethics FREE
Please visit the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) website for a document written for the general public on experimental treatments for spinal cord injury, and practical advice about participating in clinical trials
Calendar of Events
For information on upcoming meetings, visit our Calendar of Events
Reviews
Spinal Cord publishes regular, comprehensive, Review articles on topics relevant to spinal disorders. Read the latest Reviews here
Reviews
Spinal Cord publishes regular, comprehensive, Review articles on topics relevant to spinal disorders. Read the latest Reviews here
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