Dear Spinal Cord reader,

We are coming closer to the start of 2014. This year has seen a lot of activities related to our ‘Spinal Cord’ journal. The plans that have been developed are ready to be implemented. They will help to keep ‘Spinal Cord’ the international voice of the spinal cord management. As an agreed policy by ISCOS we do our upmost to create chances for ‘newcomers ‘in the field. One aspect is the efforts put in to upgrade weak manuscripts through repeated reviews so that they can become eligible for publication. Our rejection rate is high. But we try to look a little deeper and whenever we think suitable the improvement process starts. Of the last 140 manuscripts not rejected upfront (50%) 79 had one revision, 43 two, 15 three and 3 up to 6 revisions. I want to thank again our reviewers for helping us in this way. I am convinced that authors do appreciate this effort.

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