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
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Acknowledgment to Referees. Drugs 76, 1705–1709 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-016-0668-y
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