Another year has come to an end, it’s strange how time flies. And, it is time for the same procedure as last year, i.e. the journal has grown, submissions have increased, the Impact Factor has increased. We are happy and proud to be the journal’s leadership.
Again, we would like to start by thanking all the reviewers listed below. You are extremely valuable to us, and without you, the journal would not be the same. Most probably, there would be no journal at all. We are aware of the fact that reviewing a manuscript is time-consuming, sometimes boring and it is unpaid. A second problem is that many of you as good reviewers serve several journals. KSSTA is still an European journal, but as of today, we are more and more international. Therefore, we have increasingly tried to find new reviewers from outside Europe. We are aware that all too often the best reviewers are hit with review requests from several journals at the same time. We, therefore, try to limit the number of reviews assigned to the same reviewer as much as possible; a maximum of six reviews per year is the goal. During 2015, we have cleaned the reviewer list and reduced the numbers by more than half; we currently have around 500 on our list. We strongly feel that this will lead to improvements, better and more timely reviews, as we have kept only the very best reviewers. Already, we feel that the review process has improved substantially during the year.
We will as in the previous years select the best reviewers of the year, and the award will be given during the ESSKA Congress in Barcelona in May 2016. We are currently in the middle of the selection process. Once more, thank you reviewers for all your great efforts during this year. Your work is invaluable, and without you, the journal would soon be out of business.
Our website is now well consolidated (www.kssta.org) and is well coordinated with the new ESSKA website (www.esska.org), and we now have more than 500 Facebook friends. We sincerely hope that all these activities are rewarding for the authors and the readers of the journal. We continuously update information on the website and Facebook. Thanks to Sebastian Kopf, our web-editor.
Last June, we were really happy to learn that KSSTA’s Impact Factor for 2014 had climbed to 3.053. We now have reached the milestone of an Impact Factor of +3 for the first time. This places the journal in the top 10 position in both categories of Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics, where we climbed to the 7th place among more than 80 journals worldwide. As mentioned many times before, improvements are still possible and we need to improve the Impact Factor even further in the future. We are happy with improvements, but we will not rest. There are many other issues that we need to improve, like the turnaround time, i.e. the time between submission and decision and the time taken for the 2nd and 3rd reviews. And, we need to shorten the backlog; in this aspect, we have not succeeded so well. We probably need to increase the rejection rate in order to cope with the increasing number of submissions.
So, what are the facts? Is it the same procedure as last year, the same procedure as every year? Yes, we might say so; more of the same, but a little bit better. The journal has in fact increased and improved in every aspect. We published almost 4000 pages this year (a record number) and will do so also in 2016 (including several upcoming Themes Issues that we are currently working on), and the number of submissions has risen to almost 1,600 (also a record number). The constantly increased flow of papers is good, but as we have decided not to expand the journal more, this will lead to more papers being rejected; some are rejected already at the Editorial level, when we (the Editors) strongly feel that the manuscript does not fit well into the journal and/or the scientific news value is limited. However, we are very happy with the trend we have noted; i.e. many high-quality papers are being published in the journal today. We know that this will lead to greater readership and an improved impact factor.
We have made some major changes to the Editorial Team during 2015. Roland Becker is now Deputy Editor-in-Chief and the two new Assistant Editors-in-Chief are Michael Hirschmann and Volker Musahl. The new Assistant Editors-in-Chief have already made a huge impact and off-loaded the chief Editors in several ways, something that was much needed. We (Roland and Jon) would like to welcome Michael and Volker to the top table, and we look forward to long-term collaboration. We have also made some major changes to the Editorial Board, and we would like to welcome several new Editorial Board members. These persons have all done outstanding work as reviewers during the last years and will no doubt do so in the future too. We will continue to look for the best people for the Editorial Board. Finally, we have completely restructured the Editorial Office in Luxembourg with two new Editorial Assistants. We are very happy with their efficacy and their own ideas to bring the journal forward.
We would like to especially thank Runeeta Rai and Amanda Olsson, who run the Editorial Office, the ESSKA Board and the ESSKA Office in Luxembourg for good collaboration during the year. Thanks to Zhanna Kovalchuk, who runs the ESSKA Office. As always, our friends at Springer, especially Gabriele Schröder for outstanding work. The journal is produced in India, also an outstanding editorial team. Thanks to you all.
Finally, we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year in 2016. The journal will meet new challenges, but we feel that the Editorial team and the Editorial Office are strong and we are ready to face all the challenges ahead. We will certainly do our best. We are looking forward to seeing you all at the ESSKA Congress in Barcelona in May 2016. We will organize several interesting KSSTA activities there. Have fun!
2015 reviewers
Henrik Aagaard
Pierre Abadie
Jeffrey S. Abrams
Paul W. Ackermann
Nobuo Adachi
Eva Ageberg
Jens Agneskirchner
Mattias Ahldén
Sufian S. Ahmad
Maeyama Akira
Eduard Alentorn-Geli
Fredrik Almqvist
Tjarco D. W. Alta
Bogdan Ambrozic
Andrew A. Amis
Thor Einar Andersen
Jack Taylor Andrish
Peter Angele
Hari Krishna Ankem
Pierluigi Antinolfi
Daisuke Araki
Elizabeth A. Arendt
Markus P. Arnold
Carl Askling
O Sahap Atik
Emmanuel Audenaert
Jesper Augustsson
Olufemi R. Ayeni
Martin Bachmann
Ji-Hoon Bae
Greg Bain
Corrado Bait
Klaus Bak
Paul Baker
Peter Balcarek
Andrea Baldini
Maurice Balke
Ingo J. Banke
Adad Baranto
Björn Barenius
Kristoffer Weisskirchner Barfod
Gomez Barrena
John Bartlett
Tiberiu Bataga
Thomas Bauer
Mike H. Baums
Philippe Beaufils
Christoph Becher
Roland Becker
Johannes Beckmann
Asheesh Bedi
Henrik Behrend
Knut Beitzel
Etienne Belzile
Franco Benazzo
Massimo Berruto
Simone Bignozzi
Onur Bilge
Erkal Bilgic
Rudi Georg Bitsch
Mario Bizzini
Hanna Cecilia Björnsson Hallgren
Lars Blönd
Michael Bohnsack
Tommaso Bonanzinga
Michel P. Bonnin
Ulrich Bosch
Tim Boymans
Kristín Briem
Karen K. Briggs
Martijn Brinkman
Helena Brisby
Mats Brittberg
Robert Brophy
Peter U. Brucker
Stefan Budde
Paolo Bulgheroni
Bruce Burnham
Matteo Cadossi
James Calder
Carlo Camathias
Stefano Campi
Mike Carmont
Antonio Cartucho
Enric Castellet
Antonia F. Chen
ChengKung Cheng
Franck Chotel
Mustafa Citak
Thomas Clanton
Benjamin Clarsen
Martin Clauss
Justin Cobb
Andres Combalia
Vincenzo Condello
Norberto Confalonieri
Louis Conrad
Fabio Conteduca
Nelson Cortes
P. Maxwell Courtney
Ramon Cugat
Diane L. Dahm
Kiriakos Daniilidis
Nikica Darabos
Thomas De Bo
Ricardo de Casas
Marco De Gori
Lieven De Wilde
Koen Defoort
Masataka Deie
David Henri Dejour
Guillaume Demey
Brian Meldan Devitt
Giovani Di Giacomo
Tobias Johannes Dietrich
Patrick Djian
Simon Donell
Mahmut Nedim Doral
Klaus Dieter Draenert
Matej Drobnic
Jon Olav Drogset
Lutz Duerselen
Victoria Duthon
Irem Duzgun
Fredrik Einarsson
Lars Erik Ejerhed
Carl Ekholm
Henry Bone Ellis
Nathan Kincaid Endres
Lars Engebretsen
Mehmet Erdil
Bengt I. Eriksson
Karl Eriksson
Lucio Ernlund
Aidin Eslam Pour
João Espregueira-Mendes
Max Ettinger
Simon A. Euler
Denise Eygendaal
Jaroslaw Fabis
Filippo Familiari
Jack Farr
Brian T. Feeley
Julian Ashley Feller
Julian Fernandez-Gonzalez
Mario Ferretti
Andrea Ferretti
Matthias Jens Feucht
Christian Fialka
Giuseppe Filardo
Clare Fitzpatrick
Simon Fogerty
Fernando Fonseca
Philipp Forkel
Francisco Forriol
Magnus Forssblad
Edoardo Franceschetti
Francesco Franceschi
Alois Franz
Niklaus F. Friederich
Michael Frink
Karl-Heinz Frosch
Freddie H. Fu
Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann
John Fulkerson
Edward MH Gardner
Håkan Gauffin
Christian Gerhardt
Alan Getgood
Jeroen Geurts
Sandro Giannini
Thomas Gill
Francesco Giron
John none Gliatis
Alberto Gobbi
Alli Gokeler
Pedro Hinarejos Gomez
Andreas Gomoll
Jon Goosen
Karin Grävare Silbernagel
Hans Granhed
Alberto Grassi
Nicolas Graveleau
Stefan Grote
Daniel Guenther
Chinmay Gupte
Martin Hägglund
Jürgen Höher
Per Hölmich
Michiel Hageman
Andreas Halder
Camilla Halewood
Seung-Beom Han
Milan Handl
Michael Elias Hantes
Horia Haragus
Philippe Hardy
Arsi Harilainen
Joseph M. Hart
Nael Hawi
Petra Heesterbeek
Annette Heijne
Johann Henckel
Philipp Henle
Daniel Hensler
Mirco Herbort
Elmar Herbst
Lee Herrington
Benton Heyworth
Stefan Hinterwimmer
Michael Tobias Hirschmann
Anna Hirschmann
Alfred Hochrein
Martijn Hofman
Siegfried Hofmann
Theresa Holmgren
Yuichi Hoshino
Stephen Miller Howell
James Hui
Christophe Hulet
Ingrid Hultenheim-Klintberg
Mark Hutchinson
Andreas B. Imhoff
Eivind Inderhaug
Sheila Jean McNeill Ingham
Michael Iosifidis
Takanori Iriuchishima
James Irrgang
Yasuyuki Ishibashi
Michael Jagodzinski
Per-Mats Janarv
Rob P. A. Janssen
Timo Jarvela
Mislav Jelic
Jean-Yves Jenny
Jae-Heon Jeong
Joerg Jerosch
Urban Johnson
Jim Johnson
Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli
Peter Kälebo
Mustafa Karahan
Jon Karlsson
Jüri Kartus
Defne Kaya
Sugimori Kazuhito
John G. Kennedy
Gino Kerkhoffs
Armin Keshmiri
Oliver Kessler
Tommi Kiekara
Chlodwig Kirchhoff
Christoph Kittl
Karsten Knobloch
Gunnar Knutsen
Koichi Kobayashi
Baris Kocaoglu
Hideyuki Koga
Jason L. Koh
Sandro Kohl
Dieter Kohn
Elizaveta Kon
Sui Wah Kong
Lars Konradsen
Sebastian Kopf
Nanne Pieter Kort
Sentaro Koshida
Ioannis Kostogiannis
Ladislav Kovacic
Natascha Kraus
Michael Rindom Krogsgaard
Aaron J. Krych
Ryosuke Kuroda
Joanna Kvist
Sverre Löken
Christian Lüring
Matthias Lahner
Christoph lampert
Robert F. LaPrade
Lior Laver
Keith Lawhorn
Marie-Eve LeBel
Yeon Soo Lee
Sang Hak Lee
Dae-Hee Lee
Peter de Leeuw
Nicolas Lefevre
Alberto Lemos
Andreas Lenich
Simon Lenschow
Pisit Lertwanich
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Bruce A. Levy
Ofer Levy
Guoan Li
Sven Lichtenberg
Michael C. Liebensteiner
Dennis Liem
Albert Lin
Martin Lind
Anders Lindahl
Anders Lindstrand
Alexis Lion
Nicola Lopomo
Mattia Loppini
Olaf Lorbach
Joerg Luetzner
Mari Lundberg
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Stephen Lyman
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C. Benjamin Ma
Peter Macdonald
Henning Madry
Nicola Maffulli
Robert A. Magnussen
Suzanne Maher
Mahir Mahirogullari
Martin Majewski
Konstantinos G. Makridis
Laurent Malisoux
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Inigo Martinez
Cesar A. Q. Martins
Alessandro M. Massã
Philippe Massin
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Tomoyuki Matsumoto
Takehiko Matsushita
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Sara Myers
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Norimasa Nakamura
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Valentin Neuhaus
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Katarina Nilsson-Helander
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Mitsuo Ochi
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Joo Han Oh
Francesco Oliva
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Christopher J. Pearce
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Anand Pillai
Kevin Plancher
Boris Poberaj
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Bjoern Rath
Mikel L. Reilingh
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Karlsson, J., Becker, R., Hirschmann, M.T. et al. Same procedure as last year, James … same procedure as every year …. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 23, 3455–3460 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-015-3860-9
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