At Global Spine Congress in Milan in May, Global Spine Journal presented other annual Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards for the year 2016. The top 2 papers of 2016 as well as the top 2 reviewers of 2016 were recognized. A cash prize is awarded to the best reviewers and to the corresponding authors on the best papers, and everyone receives a certificate presented to them at the GSC Awards Ceremony.

 

The award winners are

 

For Best Papers:

Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion as a Salvage Technique for Pseudarthrosis following Posterior Lumbar Fusion Surgery: Mobbs, Ralph J.; Phan, Kevin; Thayaparan, Ganesha K.; Rao, Prashanth J.:

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The Thoracolumbar AOSpine Injury Score : Kepler, Christopher K.; Vaccaro, Alexander R.; Schroeder, Gregory D.; Koerner, John D.; Vialle, Luiz R.; Aarabi, Bizhan; Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan; Bellabarba, Carlo; Chapman, Jens R.; Kandziora, Frank; Schnake, Klaus J.; Dvorak, Marcel F.; Reinhold, Max; Oner, F. Cumhur:

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For Best Reviewers:

Andrei Fernandes Joaquim

Praveen Mummaneni

 

Interested in receiving a GSJ award in the future? In order to be considered for a Best Paper Award, your paper needs to be published in an issue for that particular year. The Editorial Board then votes on the top papers. Original Research papers only are in consideration for this award and the votes are based on the number of citations, downloads and then the top 10 papers with the most citations and downloads are read by the entire Editorial Board who then submits their votes. The papers with the most votes wins the awards. For the Best Reviewer Awards, only reviewers who reviewed papers for that year are in consideration. The winners are based on the timeliness of their reviews, the number of reviews completed and then the average score. The Board then votes on the top reviewers. All reviews that a reviewer completes are given a score by the Deputy Editors and Editors-in-Chief after it is submitted and then this score averages out (it is out of 100).

 

If you have any questions, please make sure to email Managing Editor Danielle Lieberman at Danielle.Lieberman@med.usc.edu