Global Spine Journal (GSJ) is the official scientific publication of AOSpine International. So far 2017 has been an exciting year for the journal. In January, GSJ switched publishers to SAGE Publications. The last few months have been a transitional period but things are now settling in. The GSJ Editorial Board has  been very pleased with the hard work that SAGE has put in with the transition and with copy-editing the manuscripts and securing GSJ’s acceptance into SCOPUS. GSJ has published 4 issues with the remaining 4 coming out in the second half of the year.

 In April 2017 a Special Focus Issue on Rare Complications in Cervical Spine Surgery which was led by GSJ Deputy Editor Dan Riew was published. This issue was a collaboration between AOSpine North America and the Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS). This issue contains 22 manuscripts all on this one topic, to create a comprehensive guide. You can read this issue online here: www.journals.sagepub.com. GSJ has other Focus Issues in the works as well, including one on “Guidelines for the Management of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury and Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy” lead by Deputy Editor Michael Fehlings. Look out for this issue coming out in August.

All of GSJ’s issues and content, including onlinefirst articles can be read at our new online site: www.journals.sagepub.com. We believe that you will find this new web site is more user-friendly and intuitive. This new site is also optimized for all smart phones, computers and tablets so that you can read and download all of your content from any device on the go. The website is a “responsive” site which means that it responds to the screen size of the device you are reading it on without sacrificing quality. You can also find altmetric scores on an article level, which means that you can find out downloads, citations, etc. which gives readers and authors an indication of an individual article’s impact. GSJ also has a new submission system for uploading articles, and this can be found here (along with instructions for authors): www.mc.manuscriptcentral.com.

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