Dear Reader,

As we approach the end of 2016, and publish our final issue of Drugs for the year, I wish to reflect on another successful year for the journal and to thank all who have contributed to Drugs over the past 12 months.

Drugs is now in its 46th year of publication with a current 2015 impact factor of 4.883 (an increase of 12% on 2014). AdisInsight Reports continue to be published for all first approvals of new chemical entities, and data show that they have maintained good usage and excellent citation statistics. As I write this letter at the end of October, a total of 11 articles have been downloaded over 1000 times already this year. These articles covered topics such as SGLT2 (sodium glucose co-transporter type 2) inhibitors in type 2 diabetes, new developments in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, cancer treatment with anti-programmed death (PD)-1/PD ligand 1 (L1) agents, τ-directed therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease, and comprehensive reviews of much-needed new antimicrobial agents.

The majority of our other journals saw a rise in impact factor against the previous year. Most notably, four more of our journals also saw an increase of over 10%—The Patient (17%), Clinical Drug Investigation (16%), the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology (13%) and Drug Safety (13%).

An important milestone was reached for our recently launched open access journals, Drug Safety—Case Reports and Drugs—Real World Outcomes. Content from these journals is now available on PubMed Central.

The Adis journals portfolio will expand in 2017, with the launch of PharmacoEconomics—Open. This new journal will be fully open access and will focus on the publication of applied research on the economic implications and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions. It joins our other well-respected health outcomes publications, PharmacoEconomics, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy and The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.

The Section Editors and I offer my sincere thanks to all authors who have contributed articles to Drugs over the course of 2016. Their skill and dedication are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The quality of published articles is, similarly, 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:

Shawn D. Aaron, Canada

Massimo Allegri, Italy

Marina Aloi, Italy

Rieke Alten, Germany

Winfried M. Amoaku, UK

Jack E. Ansell, USA

Angelo Antonini, Italy

Roberto Antonucci, Italy

Simone Appenzeller, Brazil

Gabriele Arendt, Germany

Wilbert S. Aronow, USA

Dan Atar, Norway

Vasilios G. Athyros, Greece

Matthias Augustin, Germany

Kyan Aung, Malaysia

Robert C. Axtell, USA

Valderilio F. Azevedo, Brazil

Filip Baert, Belgium

D. Duane Baldwin, USA

Robert Baran, France

Melissa L. Barker-Haliski, USA

Thomas R. E. Barnes, UK

Peter A. Barry, USA

Ute Bartels, Canada

Viviana Bazan, Italy

Al B. Benson III, USA

Alain Berdeaux, France

Marina Berenguer, Spain

Sergio Bergese, USA

Martin Bergman, USA

E. Berntorp, Sweden

Boback M. Berookhim, USA

Heiner K. Berthold, Germany

Stuart Berzins, Australia

Keith Betts, USA

Erwan Bezard, France

Hasan Bhally, New Zealand

Deepak Bhatnagar, UK

Richard K. Bogan, USA

Lisa Boggio, USA

Claudio Borghi, Italy

Barbara Bosch, Belgium

Thomas M. Bosley, USA

Bruce J. Brew, Australia

Emilio Bria, Italy

Cheryl Broussard, USA

Sorin J. Brull, USA

Klemens Budde, Germany

Dejan B. Budimirovic, USA

David M. Burger, the Netherlands

Carolyn Cammarano, USA

Luca Cantarini, Italy

Fabrizio Cantini, Italy

Andrew Carey, USA

Giancarlo Castaman, Italy

Jennifer Cather, USA

Andrew Chang, Australia

S.W. Cheng, Hong Kong

Laura Q.M. Chow, USA

Douglas B. Cines, USA

Leslie Citrome, USA

Andrew L. Clark, UK

Massimo Colombo, Italy

Benjamin Colton, USA

Erin Congdon, USA

Divi Cornec, France

James R. Couch Jr, USA

Bruno Crestani, France

Suzanne M. Crowe, Australia

Salvatore D’Angelo, Italy

Hector Gomez Dantes, Mexico

Larry Danziger, USA

Stefano de Biase, Italy

Pasquale De Negri, Italy

Giorgio Della Rocca, Italy

Lucio Dell’Atti, Italy

Jenny M. Despotovic, USA

Joe Deweese, USA

Massimo Di Maio, Italy

Don Diamond, USA

George Dimitriadis, Greece

Miroslav L. Djordjevic, Serbia

Rita Ehrlich, New Zealand

Ahmed M. ElSharkawy, UK

Johan G. Eriksson, Finland

Gamal E. Esmat, Egypt

Luis R. Espinoza, USA

Marco Falcone, Italy

Antonis Fanouriakis, Greece

Olivia M. Farr, USA

Peter Ferenci, Austria

Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Italy

Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Spain

Roy M. Fleischmann, USA

Bertrand Fontaine, France

Erin R. Fox, USA

Anthony W. Fox, UK

David N. Franz, USA

Samantha Fraser-Bell, Australia

Mark S. Freedman, Canada

William H. Frey II, USA

Joseph H. Friedman, USA

Takao Fujii, Japan

Masahide Fukudo, Japan

Jon M. Fukuto, USA

Nicholas T. Funderburg, USA

Monica Gadelha, Brazil

Luis J. V. Galietta, Italy

Jason Gallagher, USA

Alexander S. Gallus, Australia

Karen L. Gamble, USA

Pedro J. Garcia Ruiz, Spain

Adam Gaweda, USA

Goetz F. Geldner, Germany

Ivan Gentile, Italy

Ryan Gentzler, USA

Francesca Gilli, USA

José Antonio Gil-Montoya, Spain

Christian Gisselbrecht, France

Diego Golombek, Argentina

Antonio Gómez-Outes, Spain

Xenia Gonda, Hungary

Garry G. Graham, Australia

John Grainger, UK

Gustavo Grampp, USA

Cheryl R. Greenberg, Canada

Philip G. Griffiths, Gibraltar

Martin P. Grobusch, the Netherlands

Axel Grothey, USA

Aditya K. Gupta, Canada

Randi R. J. Hagerman, USA

Martina Hahn, Germany

Scott S. Hall, USA

George Han, USA

Karen L. Hardinger, USA

Tarek I. Hassanein, USA

Rüdiger Hehlmann, Germany

Tom Heier, Norway

Werner Heinz, Germany

Raoul Herbrecht, France

Cedric C. Hermans, Belgium

Dennis A. Hesselink, the Netherlands

Andrew Hill, UK

Sakiko Hiraoka, Japan

David A. Holdford, USA

Christian Holscher, UK

Martin Hönigl, Austria

Karolyn Horn, USA

Jeffrey R. Infante, USA

Patrick Ingiliz, Germany

Alessandra Iurlo, Italy

Jun Iwamoto, Japan

Jorgen Jahnsen, Norway

Rakesh Jain, USA

Ahmad Jalili, Austria

Kurt Jellinger, Austria

Pardeep S. Jhund, UK

Gordon Johnston, USA

Evan C. Jones, USA

Hendree Jones, USA

Andrew M. Jones, UK

Wolfgang H. Jost, Germany

Parijat S. Joy, USA

Hiroshi Kaji, Japan

Shin Kaneko, Japan

Stylianos Karatapanis, Greece

Ilia Karatsoreos, USA

Jean M. Kaufman, Belgium

Jaroslaw Kierkus, Poland

Kim Killinger, USA

Allen B. King, USA

Leon H. Kircik, USA

Loes E. M. Kistemaker, the Netherlands

Robert Klamroth, Germany

Stanislaw Klek, Poland

Mia-Tuang Koh, Malaysia

Harbir Singh Kohli, India

Manish Kohli, USA

Paulo G. Kotze, Brazil

Shaji K. Kumar, USA

Takahiro Kuragano, Japan

Shree K. Kurup, USA

Frédéric Lamoth, Switzerland

Richard A. Larson, USA

Alaine Le Moine, Belgium

Andrew G. Lee, USA

Howard Lee, Republic of Korea

Hendrikus J. M. Lemmens, USA

Michael A. Lemp, USA

Ying Leung, Singapore

Bernard P. Leung, Singapore

Donald P. Levine, USA

Vito Lorusso, Italy

Ennio Lubrano, Italy

Gustavo C. Machado, Australia

Meghan MacKenzie, Canada

Johnny N. Mahlangu, South Africa

Maria Elisa Mancuso, Italy

Alessandra Mangia, Italy

Julie E. Mangino, USA

Pier M. Mannucci, Italy

Paolo Marchetti, Italy

Maurie Markman, USA

Michael J. Marmura, USA

Thomas J. Marrie, Canada

Kevin Marsh, Kenya

Charlotte Martin, Belgium

Georg Maschmeyer, Germany

Subir K. Maulik, India

Luca Maurillo, Italy

Gherardo Mazziotti, Italy

John A. McClung, USA

John J. McMurray, UK

Doron Merims, Israel

Dagmar Meyer zu Heringdorf, Germany

Catherine B. Meyerle, USA

Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, UK

Anthony Mills, USA

Suks Minhas, UK

Iris Minichmayr, Germany

Dana C. Miskulin, USA

Massimo Morfini, Italy

Bart Morlion, Belgium

Andreas Munch, Sweden

Neeraj Narula, Canada

Rudolph M. Navari, USA

Danny S.C. Ng, Hong Kong

Caroline Tram Nguyen, Canada

Thomas O’Brien, USA

Mamitaro Ohtsuki, Japan

Ryuichi Okamoto, Japan

Pablo Orellano, Argentina

Edgar T. Overton, USA

Pier L. Paggiaro, Italy

Nazareno Paolocci, USA

Nikolaos Papanas, Greece

Jeong Bae Park, Republic of Korea

Jane S. Paulsen, USA

Girolamo Pelaia, Italy

Annalisa Perna, Italy

Michael A. Pfaller, USA

Richard P. Phipps, USA

Gisele Pickering, France

Joseph Pikkel, Israel

Guillaume Pineton de Chambrun, France

Bianca Maria Piraccini, Italy

Garyphallia Poulakou, Greece

Jerry S. Powell, USA

Timothy J. Price, Australia

Ursula A. Pritham, USA

Ric M. Procyshyn, Canada

John H. Pula, USA

Mariusz J. Puszczewicz, Poland

Zhongquan Qi, China

Olivier Rascol, France

Saifee Rashiq, Canada

Nishitha Reddy, USA

Ian Reid, New Zealand

Elda Righi, Italy

Tadeusz Robak, Poland

Jason A. Roberts, Australia

Francesco Rodeghiero, Italy

Keith A. Rodvold, USA

Emmanuel Roilides, Greece

Manuel Romero-Gómez, Spain

Alberto Rosati, Italy

William E. Rosenfeld, USA

Helio S. Sader, USA

Carsten Saft, Germany

Giuseppe Saglio, Italy

Yoshifumi Saisho, Japan

Ley Sander, UK

Valeria Sansone, Italy

Elena Santagostino, Italy

Andrea Santamato, Italy

André J. Scheen, Belgium

Morton Scheinberg, Brazil

Stephan A. Schug, Australia

Brent Senior, USA

Mehmet Güney Şenol, Turkey

Frederique S. Servin, France

Julián Sevilla, Spain

John F. Seymour, Australia

Monica Shah, USA

Shiri Shulman, Israel

Einar M. Sigurdsson, USA

Sandra Silva, Portugal

Anca V. Sima, Romania

Rodney Sinclair, Australia

Mervyn Singer, UK

Oguz R. Sipahi, Turkey

Catherine H. Smith, UK

Joseph S. Solomkin, USA

Disa K. Sommerfeld, Sweden

Ross A. Soo, Singapore

Rudolf E. Stauber, Austria

Sebastein Straube, Canada

Adam Strzelczyk, Germany

Kenneth L. Subotnik, USA

Vinay Sundaram, USA

Keisuke Suzuki, Japan

Hayato Tada, Japan

Stefano Taddei, Italy

Junichi Takada, Japan

Yasuo Terauchi, Japan

Barbara E. Tettenborn, Switzerland

Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti, Italy

Antoni A. Torres, Spain

Joseph Torresi, Australia

Gian M. Tosi, Italy

Nicholas A. Tritos, USA

Jaya Trivedi, USA

Paul M. Tulkens, Belgium

Saad Z. Usmani, USA

Marie-Louise Vachon, Canada

Ulka Vaishampayan, USA

Françoise Van Bambeke, Belgium

Elon H.C. van Dijk, the Netherlands

Stefano Veraldi, Italy

Jean-Louis Vincent, Belgium

Joseph J. Volpe, USA

Bernard Vrijens, Belgium

Imam Waked, Egypt

Gabrielle Welle-Strand, Norway

Daniel Wendling, France

Eric Wenzler, USA

Karl Werdan, Germany

Michael E. Widlansky, USA

Christine M. Wilder, USA

Paul S. Yamauchi, USA

Andres J. Yarur, USA

Angela Yen Moore, USA

Kaoru Yokoyama, Japan

Paul J. Yong, Canada

Alberto Zaniboni, Italy

Rafael Zaragoza, Spain

Gregory S. Zaric, Canada

Joshua Zeidner, USA

Pier Luigi Zinzani, Italy

Importantly, we also 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 Honorary Editorial Board member Professor Lawrence Du Buske, and to welcome new members Professors Aristea S. Galanopoulou, Joseph Jankovic, Giovanni Maconi, Sebastiano Mercadante, Robert W. Shafer and Michael W. Stewart and thank them for their willingness to contribute to the success of Drugs.

I hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2016 to be both interesting and informative. The Editors and I have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year and we look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in the field of clinical drug treatment in 2017.

With best wishes

Dene C. Peters