FROMTHE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ThePast,Present,andFuture
ofNeuromodulation:2012
andBeyond
Shortly after the first Interna-
tional Congress on Epidural
Spinal Cord Stimulation in
Groningen, the Netherlands, in
1989, several pioneers in our
field founded the International
Neuromodulation Society (INS).
Included were neurosurgeons,
including Lars Augustinsson
(Sweden), Michiel Staal (the
Netherlands) and Mario Meglio
(Italy), a vascular surgeon (Dr.
Hans Sier, the Netherlands), and
a cardiologist (Dr. Daniel Galley,
France). The first through the
third scientific meetings of the
INS were held in Rome (1992),
Gothenburg (1994), and
Orlando (1996). Our journal,
Neuromodulation, was first pub-
lished in 1998, thanks largely to
the efforts of the founding
editor, Elliot Krames.
Having been honored to
assume the editor-in-chief posi-
tion, I immediately initiated a
strategic planning process,
which was outlined in a report
to the journal readership (1). As I
approach my third year as
editor-in-chief, I believe it
important to re-evaluate our
journal, its progress and its
future and report again to you,
our readers. We first held a strategic planning retreat in January
2010. One of the key outcomes of our 2010 retreat was the produc-
tion of a group of key milestones and a timeline for their accom-
plishment. These goals included application to and approval by the
National Library of Medicine in the United States for listing on
PubMed, obtaining PubMed listing for all prior published content in
Neuromodulation, improving the quality of the articles published by
increasing the submission rate and the rejection rate of manuscripts
for the journal, increasing the number of issues and page count
from four to six per year and from 400 to 600 pages per year, respec-
tively, and improving the impact factor of the journal. We mapped
out a strategy to attain these
goals, including improving the
look and feel of the journal,
reorganizing the content of the
journal to reflect our diverse
readership,
外2012神经调节的过去，现在和未来：2012年及以后。
