Dear Reader

Welcome to the final issue of Drugs for 2022. This is a time to reflect on this year’s achievements, and to acknowledge and thank everyone who has contributed to ensure the continued high quality of the journal. I particularly want to acknowledge the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all healthcare professionals.


The quality of content published in Drugs has been reflected in the most recent Impact Factor of 11.431 and CiteScore™ of 16.3, placing the journal 13th in the Pharmacy and Pharmacology, and 4th in the Pharmacology (Medicine) categories, respectively. Further, Drugs has continued to publish content in a timely manner, with a median time from submission to first decision of 8 days.


I would like to begin by thanking the authors of articles published in Drugs over the course of 2022. The skill and dedication of these experts is critical to the continued success of the journal.


The quality of published articles is also testament to the diligence of the peer reviewers, and I would like to acknowledge the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Drugs in the last 12 months:


Ghanashyam Acharya, USA

Sascha Alles, USA

Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, UK

Talha M. Al-Shawaf, UK

Danieli Andrade, Brazil

Panagiota Anyfanti, Greece

Kazuhiro Araki, Japan

Carmen Ardanuy, Spain

Wilbert S. Aronow, USA

Rodrigo Azevedo Loiola, France

Zsuzsa Bagoly, Hungary

Monica Baiula, Italy

Dipika Bansal, India

Kalyani Barve, India

Viviana Bazan, Italy

Meral Beksac, Turkey

Joel Belmin, France

Daniela Berg, Germany

Deborah Blumenthal, Israel

Josip A. Borovac, Croatia

Dave Boucher, UK

David Boyer, USA

Johan Burisch, Denmark

Christopher F. Carpenter, USA

Louise Carton, France

Jose V. Castell, Spain

Maddalena Centanni, Sweden

Hong Y. Choi, Canada

Junlan Chuan, China

Marcin Chwistek, USA

Patricia Cristofaro, USA

Alessandro Dalpiaz, Italy

Lucio D'Anna, UK

Larry Danziger, USA

Rajan Darjee, Australia

Amaury Daste, France

Adem Dawed, UK

Stefano de Biase, Italy

Theo M. de Reijke, The Netherlands

Mette S. Deleuran, Denmark

Costantino Di Carlo, Italy

Hans-Christoph Diener, Germany

M.A. Dimopoulos, Greece

Cécile Droz-Perroteau, France

Urban Emmenegger, Canada

Narendranth Epperla, USA

Martin Faehling, Germany

Sonia Fargue, USA

Bruno Fattizzo, Italy

Steven R. Feldman, USA

Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Spain

Simone Ferrero, Italy

Charles Flexner, USA

Ronan Flippot, France

Ana Fraguas-Sanchez, Spain

Joseph H. Friedman, USA

Brian M. Frier, UK

Walter Fries, Italy

Thorsten Fuereder, Austria

Reinhard Gabathuler, UK

Om P. Ganda, USA

Pedro J. Garcia Ruiz, Spain

Moshe Gatt, Israel

Daniel Gaudet, Canada

Eleni Gavriilaki, Greece

Franco Gemignani, Italy

Nils E. Gilhus, Norway

Natividad Gomez-Roman, UK

Anders Gottsäter, Sweden

Morag Griffin, UK

John Gubatan, USA

Mario Habek, Croatia

Hans-Peter Hartung, Germany

Roxanne Hastie, Australia

H. Hayashi, Japan

Yujiro Hayashi, USA

Qiyu He, China

Thatcher Heumann, USA

Martin Hoenigl, USA

Christian Holscher, China

Jorge Ibanez, USA

Luís S. Inês, Portugal

Giovanni Iolascon, Italy

Rohit Jain, USA

Meghna Jani, UK

Emmanuele A. Jannini, Italy

Matti S. Jauhiainen, Finland

Reed Johnson, USA

Páll Karlsson, Denmark

Bernd Kasper, Germany

Carol A. Kauffman, USA

Chul Kim, USA

Laura Kimberly, USA

Denise Kreutzwiser, Canada

Christine C. Krieger, USA

Yoshiaki Kubota, Japan

Mikael Landén, Sweden

Simona Lattanzi, Italy

Matthew Lee, UK

Young Ran Lee, USA

Antoine Lemaire, France

Katarzyna Leszczynska, Poland

Russel E. Lewis, Italy

James H. Lewis, USA

Li Li, China

Evangelos N. Liberopoulos, Greece

David Liew, Australia

Chia-Chi Lin, Taiwan, Republic of China

Giuseppe Losurdo, Italy

Jörn Lötsch, Germany

Giancarlo Lucchetti, Brazil

M. Isabel Lucena, Spain

Iain C. Macdougall, UK

Giuseppe Maltese, UK

Giorgia Mandrile, Italy

Christophe Mariat, France

Eric Marietta, USA

Paolo Martelletti, Italy

Rami Massie, Canada

Stephanie Mathieson, Australia

Hisako Matsumoto, Japan

Benjamin L. Maughan, USA

Kelly E. McCann, USA

James Millard, UK

Alice Mims, USA

Peter G.M. Mol, The Netherlands

Filippo F. Montemurro, Italy

Jarrod J. Mousa, USA

Eli Muchtar, USA

Debabrata Mukherjee, USA

Dirk Müller-Wieland, Germany

Misako Nagasaka, USA

Takehiro Nakai, Japan

Beatrice Nardone, USA

Walaa A. Negm, Egypt

Sarah Nevitt, UK

Stephen J. Nicholls, Australia

Lindsay E. Nicolle, Canada

Alicia Okines, UK

Carlos J. Orihuela, USA

Pedro Orihuela, Chile

Tobias Overbeck, Germany

Giovanni Palladini, Italy

Hardev Pandha, UK

Ioannis Parodis, Sweden

Ana V. Pejčić, Serbia

Charles A. Peloquin, USA

Helen Petsky, Australia

JoAnn V. Pinkerton, USA

Bertram Pitt, USA

Mathias Pletz, Germany

Werner Poewe, Austria

Antonio A.E. Pontiroli, Italy

Rashmi Prasad, Sweden

Juergen Prattes, Austria

Emanuel Raschi, Italy

Olivier Rascol, France

Hennie Raterman, The Netherlands

Gerard Reach, France

Giuseppe Remuzzi, Italy

Keith A. Rodvold, USA

Jorge A. Roman-Blas, Spain

Stefano Romano, UK

Danial Roshandel, Australia

Sherin J. Rouhani, USA

Antoine Rousseau, France

Piero Ruggenenti, Italy

Alessandro Russo, Italy

Helio S. Sader, USA

Else Charlotte Sandset, Norway

Naomi Schlesinger, USA

Elaine Shum, USA

Michael A. Singer, USA

Tania C. Sorrell, Australia

Pierre P.J. Souquet, France

Stacey Stein, USA

Thomas E. Stinchcombe, USA

Carmen Suay-Corredera, Spain

Jin-Yu Sun, China

Raghav Sundar, Singapore

Michael Szarek, USA

Sasha Taleban, USA

Astrid J. Terkelsen, Denmark

Sebastian Thams, Sweden

Florence Thibaut, France

René Thieme, Germany

Martin J. Thomas, UK

Vicente E. Torres, USA

Antonella Tosti, USA

Anne-Priscille Trouvin, France

Elena Tsourdi, Germany

Kazuo Tsubota, Japan

Christopher P. Twine, UK

K. Utsugisawa, Japan

Bijay Vaidya, UK

Jennifer Vaughn, USA

Viviane C. Veiga, Brazil

Jeffery M. Venner, Canada

Michael Verret, Canada

Liza Villaruz, USA

Maj Vinberg, Denmark

Ioannis Voutsadakis, Canada

Sarah Wall, USA

Jing Wang, China

Zhengqiang Wang, USA

Michael H. Weisman, USA

Ilene C. Weitz, USA

Ethel Weld, USA

Fletcher A. White, USA

Cynthia Willey, USA

John Windsor, New Zealand

Jay B. Wish, USA

Angel Wong, UK

Clifford J. Woolf, USA

Emily Wright, Australia

Jing Xue, China

Yoon-Sim Yap, Singapore

Chi-Hsiao Yeh, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chun-Nan Yeh, Taiwan, Republic of China

Moussa B.H. Youdim, Israel

Rafael Zaragoza, Spain


I am also extremely grateful to the members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board, who have acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content. This year, we said to farewell some long-standing members, Professors Paul Abrams, Luisa de Angelis, Christine Katlama, Wasaburo Koizumi, Hartmut Lode, Francesco Montorsi and Geoffrey Playford, and thank them for their outstanding contributions to the journal. We were also very fortunate to welcome several new members to the board this year, and thank them for their willingness to contribute to the success of the journal: Sabina Antoniu, Vera Bril, Christoph Correll, Lucia del Vecchio, Roy Fleischmann, Peter Goadsby, Johnny Mahlangu, Bradley McGregor, Ole Haagen Nielsen, Michael Nurmohamed, Kimberly Scarsi, Einar Sigurdsson, Elizabeth Smyth, Yu Sunakawa and Konrad Talbot.


The editorial program for 2023 is well under way, and we are looking forward to continuing to bring you many high-quality and authoritative articles in the field of clinical drug treatment over the coming year.


On behalf of all the Section Editors and staff, thank you so much for your continued support.


Best wishes


Dene C. Peters

Editor, Drugs