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State of the Art Conference

Outcome Measures in Rehabilitation

26-28 January 2010

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JRRD MissionJRRD Mission

To responsibly evaluate and disseminate scientific research

findings impacting the rehabilitative healthcare

community

VHA HANDBOOK 1203.5

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Top Four Reasons to Publish with JRRD

• High Visibility: JRRD is an established and well-respected journal widely distributed to both national and international audiences in print and electronic format. Internet downloads from the JRRD Web site totaled 4.6 million in 2009.

• Accessibility and Archiving: Research is freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. No subscription or registration is required to access full text articles online. Articles are archived on JRRD's Web site and within PubMed and many other abstract indexing companies. Legacy archival materials dating back to inception are available on the JRRD Web site.

• No Use Restrictions: After publication in the print edition, you are free to print out copies of your article to share with your colleagues or post it on the Web. Dissemination of your work for educational and scientific purposes is permitted without restriction and encouraged.

• Ease of publication: Electronic submission and peer-review makes publishing your research simple and efficient.

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The purpose of a JRRD single-topic issue (STI) is to produce a

publication that focuses on a particular aspect of

rehabilitation science.

The STI will serve to illuminate the current leading edge

protocols and research on the topic.

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It is not solely a review of available literature or repackaging of long established trends in the

area covered.

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SingleSingle-Topic Issues 2010Topic Issues 2010Prosthetics Outcomes

Gayle Reiber

VA Data Quality - OutcomesElizabeth Tarlov

Wound Healing (Single-Topic Section)Kath Bogie and Chester Ho

Rehabilitation RoboticsPeter Lum, Tobias Nef, and Joe Hidler

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Single-Topic Issues 2011Single-Topic Issues 2011Outcome Measures in Rehabilitation SOTA

Meeting organized by Sunil SenguptaAssociate Editor Tim Elliott

Prosthetics SOTAConsortium, Meeting organized by

Bob Jaeger

Wheelchair EngineeringRory Cooper

Upper Extremity ProstheticsT. Walley Williams

23 Single-Topic Issues Published -Topic Issues Published Since 2002Since 2002

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Associate Editor for Outcomes STI

• Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology

• Editor: Timothy R. Elliott

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The Standards for Compiling STIs

• All authors and topics will be established and agreed on by the Associate Editor (AE) and JRRD Editor before assignment to the issue.

• Every issue will contain between 12 to 14 papers. The AE may solicit more than that to replace potentially rejected papers and authors who withdraw their submissions.

• No issue will contain more than three review papers.• The AE is responsible for content, reviewer selection, and

following up on delinquent author/reviewer responses. The AE will ensure that all reviewers have been prescreened and have agreed to review the assigned papers BEFORE submission to the Administrative Editor.

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Continued• The Administrative Editor will be responsible for all duties not

performed by the AE, including reviewer entry and contacts, author contacts as to uploading and meeting timelines and benchmarks, and ensuring the issue is progressing according to schedule.

• No more than two reviewers per paper can be an author on another paper in the issue. ALL papers will have three reviewers, minimum.

• All submissions, reviews, AE recommendations, Editor decisions, and production will be done through Manuscript Central.

• The AE will produce a Guest Editorial for the issue and will provide a digitized “head shot” photograph for publication with the Guest Editorial.

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STI-Author Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be made by the authors uploading their manuscripts on to the Manuscript Central Web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jrrd. This site is user friendly and self explanatory.

• The author will be asked to supply preferred reviewers. Since STIs are unique in that the AE will provide the preferred reviewers, the uploading author should “X” out the fields for this query.

• When asked for the “Manuscript Subtype” the authors should choose the appropriate one from the pull-down menu. Every STI will have its own unique type listed in the pull-down menu.

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Author Guidelines Cont.• Manuscript Central will only accept 5 authors in its author

field(s). Do not despair! If accepted, the published version of the papers will have all authors noted on the title page in the order listed, even if the number exceeds 5.

• The AE is the source for all questions concerning content. Any questions concerning the operation of Manuscript Central should be directed to Lloyd Tinker, lloyd.tinker@va.gov.

• Manuscripts submitted prior to final acceptance should have all figures and tables embedded in the text in the text file. After acceptance, the final version on CD and attached to the email should have them stripped out and put into separate file(s).

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Author Guidelines Cont.

• All submissions require an “At a Glance” statement in a separate file.

• Detailed explanations and standards for submission can be found in the JRRD Editorial Policies, http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/policy09.pdf

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Manuscript Decision

Number of Manuscripts

Percentage of Total

Accept 21 1.0%

Accept Revision 506 24.3%

EIC Immediate Accept

133 6.4%

EIC Immediate Reject

62 3.0%

Further Revision Needed

324 15.5%

Major Revision 426 20.4%

Minor Revision 309 14.8%

Reject 239 11.5%

Reject - Inappropriate

1 0.0%

Reject Revision 63 3.0%

Total:  2084 100.0%

All papers undergo at least 1, if not 2, rounds of revision, and most of those are then accepted.

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Important Consideration

All papers submitted for STIs are reviewed and none are guaranteed

acceptance.

We regularly reject works submitted to STIs that do not survive the review

process.

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JRRD Impact Factor 2005-2008

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Citations as of 15 July 2009

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Back of the Envelope• Elsevier announced in 2006 that there had been 1 billion downloads

since the launch of Science Direct Portal in April 1999• Science Direct has 3,143 titles• 1 billion downloads in 7 years, or 143 million or so per year• 143 million downloads / 3,143 titles is approx. 45,000 downloads per

year per journal• SO compare 4.6 million downloads for JRRD with 45,000

• Caveat: this calculation makes rather poor assumptions that all titles are downloaded equally, which is probably not true.

• FYI: Total number of citations in ISI Web of Science since 1900 is 600 million

Johan Bollen et al. Clickstream data yields high-resolution maps of science. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(3):1-11.

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The JRRD Web site is back with over 5,200 articles, more than 30,000 pages, and 4.6 million

downloads for 2009!