Dear Reader
As we reach the final issue of Drugs for 2017, I wish to reflect on another successful year’s achievements, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the high quality of our content.
2017 was a successful year for Drugs. Over 150 articles have been published, and as of the end of October, 28 of these have been downloaded from SpringerLink over 1000 times. Topics covered by these popular articles included the language of biosimilars, targeting of new signalling pathways in asthma, immune disorders and cancer, appropriate use of anti-epileptics, proton pump inhibitors and antimicrobials, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, nanobiotechnology in pain management, and new developments in the drug treatment of diabetes, psoriasis and hepatitis B.
Social media sharing of information is becoming more important and is another metric with which to measure the reach of articles. This year several articles published in Drugs scored over 20 on the Altmetric system.
The quality of articles published in the journal is also reflected in its most recent (2016) impact factor of 5.000 (up from 4.883 in 2015).
Other journals in the Adis Premier Journals Portfolio (http://www.springer.com/gp/adis) continue to prosper, and this year has seen the successful launch of PharmacoEconomics - Open, the newest journal in the portfolio. The journal has published a full volume of 30 articles in its first year, plus many more online first. Following in the steps of Adis’ flagship subscription journal in the field, PharmacoEconomics, the new open-access journal focuses on cost and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions.
The Section Editors and I offer our sincere thanks to the authors who have contributed articles to Drugs over the course of 2017. The skill and dedication of all authors are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The quality of published articles is also testament to the significant efforts of the peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest possible standard. We would like to thank the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Drugs in the last 12 months:
Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Mexico
Jill Adler-Moore, USA
Meera Agar, Australia
Per Albertsson, Sweden
Peter Albrecht, Germany
Richard P. Allen, USA
Talha M. Al-Shawaf, UK
Rieke Alten, Germany
Robert J. Amato, USA
Giuseppe Ambrosio, Italy
Winfried M. Amoaku, UK
Doralina L. Anghelescu, USA
Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA
Sabina A. Antoniu, Romania
Yaseen Arabi, Saudi Arabia
Kirit M. Ardeshna, UK
Antonio Ascione, Italy
Amit Assa, Israel
David J. Back, UK
Stephen C. Bain, UK
Piero Barbanti, Italy
Linda Barbour, USA
David Barnes, UK
Thomas R.E. Barnes, UK
David S.H. Bell, USA
James R. Berenson, USA
Claudia Bernardini, Switzerland
Stuart Berzins, Australia
Bianca Blanch, Australia
Christopher M. Bland, USA
Thomas Bleck, USA
Joseph M. Blondeau, Canada
Andrew Blumenfeld, USA
Lisa N. Boggio, USA
Aliccia Bollig-Fischer, USA
Stefano Bonini, Italy
Stefanos Bonovas, Italy
David Boyer, USA
Vivian Brache, Dominican Republic
Eva Brandl, Germany
Renier J. Brentjens, USA
Mitchell F. Brin, USA
Bruce Brockstein, USA
Gerald E. Bruder, USA
Thomas N. Bryce, USA
Matthew J. Budoff, USA
David M. Burger, the Netherlands
Maria Buti, Spain
Angela P. Cadavid, Colombia
Tommaso Cai, Italy
Natalie Callander, USA
Luigino Calzetta, Italy
Joao Cardoso, Portugal
Ingolf I. Cascorbi, Germany
Brooks D. Cash, USA
Giancarlo Castaman, Italy
Frederic Castinetti, France
Renato Caviglia, UK
Rakesh Chandra, USA
Himika Chawla, India
Andrea Chiricozzi, Italy
Aykut Cilli, Turkey
Kimberly Claeys, USA
Hance Clarke, Canada
Carlo Colosimo, Italy
Giancarlo Comi, Italy
Oscar Corli, Italy
Daniel W. Coyne, USA
Maria Luz Cuadrado, Spain
Jian-Guo Cui, USA
Jose Cunha-Vaz, Portugal
David Czock, Germany
Kim Davenport, UK
Marco Davila, USA
Nancy Dawson, USA
Ghassan Dbaibo, Lebanon
José Carlos de Lima-Júnior, Brazil
Adriaan de Wilde, the Netherlands
Michel Delforge, Belgium
Jean-Pierre Devogelaer, Belgium
Timothy Devos, Belgium
Jayesh Dhanani, Australia
Hans-Christoph Diener, Germany
George Dimitriadis, Greece
Yohei Doi, USA
Christian Domingo, Spain
Evangelia Dounousi, Greece
Diederick Duijvesz, the Netherlands
Ignacio Duran, Spain
Hans Christian Ebbers, the Netherlands
Olgun Elicin, Switzerland
Peter M. Ellis, Canada
Bassel El-Rayes, USA
Johan G. Eriksson, Finland
Michelle Fanale, USA
Ronnie Fass, USA
Csaba Fehér, Spain
Steven R. Feldman, USA
Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Italy
Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Italy
Simone Ferrero, Italy
Roy M. Fleischmann, USA
Regina Folster-Holst, Germany
Arlene Forastiere, USA
Anthony W. Fox, UK
Yara Dadalti Fragoso, Brazil
Samuel Frank, USA
Frederick G. Freitag, USA
Kenneth Friedman, USA
Joseph H. Friedman, USA
Jeremy Furyk, Australia
Giovanni Gabutti, Italy
Joshua Gagne, USA
Maximilian Gahr, Germany
Jason Gallagher, USA
Molly Gallogly, USA
Pere Gascon, Spain
Cristina Gasparetto, USA
Charly Gaul, Germany
Arthur F. Gelb, USA
Barry E. Gidal, USA
Ian Gilron, Canada
Sarah Glover, USA
Rob Glynne-Jones, UK
David S. Goldfarb, USA
Shinya Goto, Japan
Christos Argyrios Goudis, Greece
Dimitra Grapsa, Greece
James W. Grau, USA
Petros Grivas, USA
Gery Guy Jr, USA
Shotaro Hagiwara, Japan
Daisuke Hagiwara, Japan
Marion Harris, Australia
Thomas Hatschek, Sweden
Daniel B. Hawcutt, UK
Akos Heinemann, Austria
Johannes Hennings, Germany
Cedric C. Hermans, Belgium
Ramón C. Hermida, Spain
Reinhardt Hohlfeld, Germany
Sarah A. Holstein, USA
Karolyn Horn, USA
Chung-Tsen Hsueh, USA
Adam Huber, Canada
Tatsuo Ichinohe, Japan
Cristoforo Incorvaia, Italy
Patrick Ingiliz, Germany
Namiki Izumi, Japan
G. Jönsson, Sweden
Barbara Jarzab, Poland
Hendree Jones, USA
Kurian Joseph, Canada
Richard W. Joseph, USA
Stylianos Karatapanis, Greece
Siegfried Kasper, Austria
Vikram Kate, India
Carol A. Kauffman, USA
Christoph Kellinghaus, Germany
Sidney H. Kennedy, Canada
Munther A. Khamashta, UK
Sarah E. Kidd, Australia
Ole Kirk, Denmark
Robert Klamroth, Germany
Jan-Michael Klapproth, USA
Dimas A. Kliemann, Brazil
Thomas Klimkait, Switzerland
Roger Knaggs, UK
Stefan Knop, Germany
Harbir Singh Kohli, India
Jill Kolesar, USA
Katja Kollewe, Germany
Evi Kostenis, Germany
Marie Kostine, France
Peter Kreiner, USA
Michael Kreissl, Germany
Shaji K. Kumar, USA
Pekka Kurki, Finland
Joseph L. Kuti, USA
Leon C. Lack, Australia
Jean-Daniel Lalau, France
Matteo Lambertini, Italy
John J. Lauriello, USA
Hillard M. Lazarus, USA
Eun Bong Lee, Republic of Korea
Andrea Leonardi, Italy
Ethan A. Lerner, USA
Stefan Leucht, Germany
Ying Ying Leung, Singapore
Roger A. Levy, Brazil
Ed Li, USA
Michelle Liedtke, USA
Jean-Pierre Lindenmayer, USA
Michael Linnebank, Germany
Francesco Locatelli, Italy
Henk Lokhorst, the Netherlands
Erik T. Lontok, USA
Anthony Lopez, France
Jose Luis Lopez-Sendon, Spain
Ennio Lubrano, Italy
Naim Maalouf, USA
Fernando Magro, Portugal
Johnny Mahlangu, South Africa
Ehsan Malek, USA
Marcio C. Mancini, Brazil
Maria E. Mancuso, Italy
David M. Mannino, USA
Tomer M. Mark, USA
Maurie Markman, USA
Silvia Martinez Illamola, USA
Christophe Massard, France
Maria G. Matera, Italy
Mark A. McCamish, USA
Philip L. McCarthy, USA
Alexander McGirr, Canada
Fermin Mearin, Spain
Joseph Meletiadis, Greece
Til Menge, Germany
Mansoor Mirza, Denmark
Laurent Misery, France
Seiya Miyamoto, Japan
Pavel Mohr, Czech Republic
Fortunato Morabito, Italy
Massimo Morfini, Italy
Ann M. Mortimer, UK
Ulrich Mrowietz, Germany
David W. Mudge, Australia
Thomas Muller, Germany
Elisabetta Munzone, Italy
Laura Musazzi, Italy
Rudolph M. Navari, USA
Mark Nelson, UK
Ole Haagen Nielsen, Denmark
Jeremy M. Nightingale, UK
William Notcutt, UK
Michael T. Nurmohamed, the Netherlands
Thomas O’Brien, USA
Ian N. Olver, Australia
Eileen M. O’Reilly, USA
Pedro Orihuela, Chile
Albert Oriol, Spain
Nir Osherov, Israel
Francesca Palandri, Italy
Remo Panaccione, Canada
Nikolaos Papanas, Greece
Lorella Pasquinucci, Italy
Nimish Patel, USA
Francesco Patti, Italy
Girolamo Pelaia, Italy
Jose Perez-Castrillon, Spain
David S. Perlin, USA
Annalisa Perna, Italy
Marko Pesu, Finland
Marek Petras, Czech Republic
Stephen C. Pflugfelder, USA
Kevin J. Phillips, USA
Michael E. Pichichero, USA
Luigi A. Pini, Italy
Yih Jia Poh, Singapore
Garyphallia Poulakou, Greece
Luciano Quaranta, Italy
David I. Quinn, USA
Kaisar Raza, India
Danielle Reddi, UK
Kathryn Reid, USA
Catarina P. Reis, Portugal
Enrique Rey, Spain
Vincent Ribrag, France
Christophe Richez, France
Johannes Ring, Germany
Giovanni Ristori, Italy
Sally Roberts, New Zealand
Keith A. Rodvold, USA
Emmanuel Roilides, Greece
Andrea O. Rossetti, Switzerland
Maria Grazia, Rumi, Italy
Kapil Sahnan, UK
Maite Sainz de la Maza, Spain
Cristina Sampaio, Portugal
Samantha Sartori, USA
Michael J. Satlin, USA
Carmelo Scarpignato, Italy
André J.L. Scheen, Belgium
Fabrizio Schifano, UK
Lawrence R. Schiller, USA
Stéphane M. Schneider, France
David A. Schoenfeld, USA
Stephan A. Schug, Australia
Wilhelm W. Schulte-Mattler, Germany
Christina M. Scifres, USA
Douglas L. Seidner, USA
Thomas Seufferlein, Germany
Safi Shahda, USA
Robert Sidbury, USA
Oguz Resat Sipahi, Turkey
Adrian Smedowski, Poland
Maree T. Smith, Australia
Howard Sofen, USA
Claudio Solaro, Italy
Nicoletta N. Sonino, Italy
Maciej Sopata, Poland
Martin Soubrier, France
Laura Spring, USA
Alessandro Squizzato, Italy
Richard R. Stark, Australia
Christopher Stein, Germany
Janneke Stolwijk, the Netherlands
Robert F. Storey, UK
Kayla R. Stover, USA
Jacek C. Szepietowski, Poland
Thomas Tängdén, Sweden
Hiroaki Tanaka, Japan
Dick Tibboel, the Netherlands
Giuliano Tocci, Italy
Benjamin Tomlinson, USA
Gianluca Trifirò, Italy
Maria Trojano, Italy
Paul M. Tulkens, Belgium
Rita Turnaturi, Italy
Themistoklis Tzotzas, Greece
José Vázquez-Prado, Mexico
David van Duin, USA
Laura van Gerven, Belgium
Frank Verhoeven, France
Sarah Vreugde, Australia
Garry G.M. Walsh, UK
Guy Warman, New Zealand
Adilia Warris, UK
Gerald F. Watts, Australia
Niels Weinhold, USA
Gabrielle Welle-Strand, Norway
Eric Wenzler, USA
Karl Werdan, Germany
Christine M. Wilder, USA
Basem M. William, USA
Glyn Williams, UK
A. Peter R. Wilson, UK
James Stuart Wolffsohn, UK
Tin Wui Wong, Malaysia
Kara J. Wyant, USA
Takayuki Yoshino, Japan
Man-Fung Yuen, Hong Kong
Gaetano Zaccara, Italy
Rochelle S. Zak, USA
Rafael Zaragoza, Spain
Kirsten Zeuner, Germany
Fengmin Zhao, USA
In addition, we would like to thank the members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board, who have acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes. We take this opportunity to sincerely thank retiring Editorial Board member Professor Mark Stacy.
I hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in Drugs to be interesting and informative. The editorial schedule for 2018 is well under way, and the Section Editors and I are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.
With best wishes
Dene C. Peters
Editor, Drugs
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Acknowledgement to Referees. Drugs 77, 1929–1933 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-017-0845-7
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