Celebration of the 10thAnniversary of Neural Regeneration Research

Celebration of the 10thAnniversary of Neural Regeneration Research

Dear Readers,

We are very excited to celebrate the 10thanniversary ofNeural Regeneration Research (NRR). With this fi rst issue of 2017, we would like to express our sincere thanks for your continued support and wish you a Happy New Year! We would also like to share with you a brief overview of the growth of the journal in the past 10 years.

Founded in April 2006,NRRis an international Open Access journal published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow, with its mission focused on reporting high quality and novel scienti fi c advancements in the fi eld of neural regeneration.

NRRhas been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and PubMed, and is committed to publishing articles on basic, trans‐lational, and clinical research, as well as novel technologies related to neural regeneration in the peripheral and central nervous systems. We hope that, with your support,NRRwill be a premier journal in the fi eld of neural regeneration. Looking back at the history of the journal in the past 10 years (Figure 1), we can clearly see that we are moving towards that direction.

Now,NRRhas been widely accepted by scientists from all of the world and, in 2016, numerous readers visited our website from coun‐tries in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania (Figure 2).

Additionally, the downloads of articles published inNRRhave been steadily increasing with ＞ 140,000 full text downloads and ＞44,000 PDF downloads in 2016 (Figure 3).

Moreover,NRRo ff ers unique opportunities, summarized in Figure 4, for those who wish to publish their work in the journal. First, our journal is an open access journal allowing free downloads through dif‐ferent search sites. Second, we o ff er vigorous review on technical, eth‐ical, scienti fi c, and language issues of submitted manuscripts.ird, our editorial o ffi ce makes every e ff ort to facilitate fast peer review and publication aer the acceptance of the paper. Fourth, we closely track the published articles through views, citations, and downloads to increase the impact of the published work. We acknowledge authors who publish the most cited articles inNRR(Figure 5). Lastly, we have been organizing annual International Neural Regeneration Sympo‐siums (INRS) to bring scientists together to discuss cutting edge re‐search and to facilitate collaborations among scientists in this fi eld.

Since we took the editorship ofNRRin 2011, the journal’s citation performance has grown dramatically from 154 in 2011 to 1,000 in 2015 (Figure 6). A further growth of the journal’s citation in 2016 also occurred.is growth will be reported in our editorial next year.

Figure 1e milestones ofNeural Regeneration Research(NRR) in the past 10 years.

Figure 2 Geographic area analysis ofNRR’s website visitors and their percentage of visits in 2016.

Figure 3 Summary of downloads ofNRRarticles using di ff erent media devices in 2016.

Figure 4 Opportunities for publishing inNeural Regeneration Research.

Figure 5 Authors of the most cited articles published inNeural Regeneration Researchbetween 2014 and 2015.

Figure 6 Journal citation report (JCR) during 2011–2015.

Figure 7 Journal’s impact factor trend (Source: Journal Citation Report).

Similarly, the journal’s impact factor has increased markedly from 0.22 in 2014 to 0.968 in 2015, indicating a tremendous increase in the journal’s impact (Figure 7).

At this special celebration of the 10thanniversary ofNRR, we and the editorial staff ofNRRare highly motivated and confident thatNRRwill move up to another level of excellence. We hope thatNRRwill be an excellent platform to present your cutting edge research in neural regeneration, and, by working together, we will makeNRRone of the fi nest journals in the fi eld. We appreciate your feedback and your interest inNRR.

Sincerely,

Editors-in-chief ofNeural Regeneration Research

Kwok-fai So and Xiao-Ming Xu

How to cite this article: So KF, Xu XM (2017) Celebration of the 10thAnniversary of Neural Regeneration Research. Neural Regen Res 12(1):5-6.

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