Abstract
I want to wish you all a Happy New Year! The Global Spine Journal (GSJ) Editorial Board hopes that all our authors, readers, and reviewers had a wonderful holiday season. This New Year has brought many new changes for GSJ. We are delighted to announce that, as of the first of this year, we are now publishing with SAGE Publications, and we warmly welcome them to the AOSpine Organization.
The switch to SAGE has brought GSJ a new and interactive ejournal site for our online journal. This site is designed to be optimized on all your smart devices, including iPhones and iPads, so that you can easily read the journal from anywhere. This ejournal site also provides altmetrics, so that authors can instantly view and see how often their articles have been downloaded and read.
We are also working with a new manuscript submission system called SAGEtrack. All your information was transferred over from Editorial Manager to SAGEtrack, so once you formally login, the transition should be seamless. You will have to create new log-in information, but then all your information will be there in your account. The new manuscript system can be found at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gsjournal. If you search for it in Google, it will immediately take you to the log-in page. When you log-in to your account, you will be able to find links for user tutorials to help you acclimate to the new system. We have found that SAGEtrack is quite user friendly, and we are confident that you will all find it to be an easy transition.
We are also excited to officially debut our new GSJ cover. With a new publisher comes a fresh new start and the opportunity for a new look. We are very excited about the evolution and growth of the journal and hope that you all enjoy it as well.
GSJ is maturing exponentially with each year. 2016 was our best year, and we received a record number of manuscript submissions. We are confident that GSJ will continue to grow even further in 2017. We successfully merged EBSJ (Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal) fully into GSJ last year, and now the two journals are truly one publication. Last year we increased from 6 to 8 issues per year, which proved to be a great success. We do plan to continue to expand the journal in the coming years. We will keep all of you updated as new developments and updates come up throughout this year.
We would like to again thank all of you for bearing with us through our transitional period as we transition over to SAGE. We are excited to work with a new publisher, and we are confident that that you will see new and exciting things from this new partnership. This is a thrilling time for the journal, and we look forward to 2017.