Dear Reader

As we approach the end of 2015, and publish our final issue of PharmacoEconomics for the year, the editors and production staff at Adis wish to reflect on another successful year’s achievements and pay thanks to all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the exceptional quality of our content.

We are delighted to have seen the conclusion of formalities surrounding the joint venture of Springer Science + Business Media with Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education in early May. Substantial ground has already been made in the integration of business within the resulting Springer Nature company and we at Adis look eagerly toward the future, as the benefits of the collective expertise and capabilities of this company carry us forward.

The majority of our journals saw a rise in ISI impact factor against the previous year. Most notably, BioDrugs increased by 41 % to 2.989; the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics increased 19 % to 1.563; CNS Drugs increased by 17 % to 5.113; Targeted Oncology increased 16 % to 4.0; Pediatric Drugs increased 15 % to 1.975; Drugs & Aging increased 13 % to 2.838; and Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy increased a further 12 % to 2.891, having already jumped 53 % in the preceding year. We hope to build upon these gains, once more, in 2016.

The Adis Book programme has grown substantially and 20 new titles will have been published over the course of the year. Over 50 further titles are currently in development with leading academics, internationally, and we continue to add more to the list. Our thanks, again, to all who have submitted these valuable proposals to date.

We offer our sincere thanks to all authors who have contributed articles to PharmacoEconomics over the course of 2015. Their skill and dedication are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The world-class quality of published articles is, similarly, testament to the significant efforts of the peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that our content is held to the highest possible standard. In addition to the members of our Honorary Editorial Board, we would like to thank the following individuals who acted as reviewers for articles published in PharmacoEconomics in 2015:

Michael Adena, Australia

Hareth Al-Janabi, UK

Colin R. Angus, UK

A. George Awad, Canada

Zaheer Babar, New Zealand

Dipika Bansal, India

Lucy Barnard-Brak, USA

Michael M. Barry, Ireland

Hasan Basarir, UK

Charles Baum, USA

Jaclyn Beca, Canada

Nicholas T. Bello, USA

Agnes Benedict, UK

Tanya Bentley, USA

Jenny Berg, Sweden

Lisa Bernard, Canada

Ivan K. Bindoff, Australia

Stephen Birch, Australia

Patricia R. Blank, Switzerland

Keith Bodger, UK

Mark Bounthavong, USA

Alan Brennan, UK

Gary C. Brown, USA

Thomas Butt, UK

Diane L. Carroll, USA

Michele Cecchini, France

James Chambers, USA

Michael Chapko, USA

Shuai Chen, USA

Jagpreet Chhatwal, USA

Chun-Ru Chien, Taiwan

Christos Chouaïd, France

Leslie Citrome, USA

Robin Clark, USA

Keith Cooper, UK

William H. Crown, USA

Zhanglin Cui, USA

Helen A. Dakin, UK

Thomas Davidson, Sweden

Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Australia

Christopher de Gara, Canada

Gerard de Pouvourville, France

Anne Dee, Ireland

Claudia Della Corte, Italy

Vakaramoko Diaby, USA

Alex Diamantopoulos, UK

Roland Diel, Germany

Richard Edlin, New Zealand

Tobias Effertz, Germany

Elamin Elbasha, USA

Jorge Elgart, Argentina

Talitha L. Feenstra, The Netherlands

Nicholas Finer, UK

Robert Finger, Australia

Eric Finkelstein, Singapore

Richard G. Fiscella, USA

Anna Flego, Australia

Christopher R. Flowers, USA

Richard W. Francis, Australia

Martin Frank, Germany

Margreet Franken, The Netherlands

Jessica Franklin, USA

Gerardus W.J. Frederix, The Netherlands

Gisselle Gallego, Australia

Afschin Gandjour, Germany

Livio Garattini, Italy

Louis P. Garrison Jr., USA

Claudia Geue, UK

Mireille Goetghebeur, Canada

Su Golder, UK

Gabriela B. Gomez, The Netherlands

Stephen Goodall, Australia

Daisuke Goto, USA

Tim Govers, The Netherlands

Henry G. Grabowski, USA

Katja Grasic, UK

Colin Green, UK

Dan Greenberg, Israel

Paul Grootendorst, Canada

Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, The Netherlands

Scott D. Grosse, USA

Janneke P.C. Grutters, The Netherlands

Anders Gustavsson, Sweden

Marion Haas, Australia

Hossein Haji Ali Afzali, Australia

Peter Hallowell, USA

Malek B. Hannouf, Canada

Susan Harnan, UK

Anthony H. Harris, Australia

Ron D. Hays, USA

William Hollingworth, UK

John Hornberger, USA

Martin Hoyle, UK

Marjan J.M. Hummel, The Netherlands

Rachael Hunter, UK

Nicola Huxley, UK

Sergio Iannazzo, Italy

K. Jack Ishak, Canada

Christopher Jackson, UK

Juergen John, Germany

Owen Johnson, UK

Eric Jutkowitz, USA

Anuraag Kansal, USA

Phil Kinghorn, UK

Noam Y. Kirson, USA

Scott W. Klarenbach, Cape Verde

Hans-Helmut Koenig, Germany

Ansgar Lange, Germany

Yang Lei, USA

Qian Li, USA

Shan Liu, USA

Yoel Lubell, UK

Nan Luo, Singapore

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, USA

Douglas W. Mapel, USA

Javier Mar, Spain

Guilio Marchesini, Italy

William Marder, USA

Kevin Marsh, UK

Mario Mazzocchi, Italy

C. Elizabeth McCarron, Canada

Paul McCrone, UK

Laura McCullagh, Ireland

Phil Mcewan, UK

Tapan Mehta, USA

Andrea Messori, Italy

Chad Meyerhoefer, USA

Thaddeus L. Miller, USA

David Mott, UK

Christopher-Paul Milne, USA

Travis Minor, USA

Vittal Mogasale, Republic of Korea

Jorgen Moller, USA

Nisha Nair, New Zealand

Shevanthi Nayagam, UK

Lama Nazer, Jordan

Erik Nord, Norway

Andrew J. Palmer, Australia

Katherine Payne, UK

Petros Pechnivanoglou, Canada

Niels Peek, UK

Brita A. Pekarsky, Australia

Jaime Peters, UK

Alena M. Pfeil, Switzerland

Larry Phillips, UK

A. Simon Pickard, USA

Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades, UK

Pedro Plans-Rubió, Spain

Daniel Pollard, UK

Lorenzo Pradelli, Italy

Eleanor Pullenayegum, Canada

Kim Rand-Hendriksen, Norway

Shelby D. Reed, USA

Colin Ridyard, UK

Ursula Rochau, Austria

Alessandro Roggeri, Italy

Wolf Rogowski, Germany

Joshua A. Roth, USA

Jordana K. Schmier, USA

Ian A. Scott, Australia

Till Seuring, UK

Koonal K. Shah, UK

James Shearer, UK

Amir Shmueli, Israel

James Signorovitch, USA

Alison F. Smith, UK

Michael J. Sorich, Australia

Mark Speechley, Canada

Jona Stahmeyer, Germany

Baudouin Standaert, Belgium

Tom Stargardt, Germany

Lotte Steuten, The Netherlands

Keith Swetz, USA

Kenneth Tang, Canada

Paul Tappenden, UK

Conor Teljeur, Ireland

Joanna Thorn, UK

John M. Tilford, USA

Yesim Tozan, USA

Leopoldo Trieste, Italy

Haitham W. Tuffaha, Australia

Wendy J. Ungar, Canada

Antoinette D. van Asselt, The Netherlands

Pieter van Baal, The Netherlands

Wilbert B. van den Hout, The Netherlands

Luc Van Gaal, Belgium

Eric van Ganse, France

Janine A. van Til, The Netherlands

Mary S. Vaughan Sarrazin, USA

Lennert Veerman, Australia

Pepijn Vemer, The Netherlands

Talitha I. Verhoef, UK

Jennifer A. Whitty, Australia

Ronald C. Wielage, USA

Iestyn P. Williams, UK

Richard Willke, USA

Edward C.F. Wilson, UK

Frank Windmeijer, UK

Eric Winquist, Canada

Torbjørn Wisløff, Norway

Eve Wittenberg, USA

William W. Wong, Canada

Beth Woods, UK

David Bin-Chia Wu, Malaysia

Hongbo Yang, USA

Jenelle Yorke, UK

Gregory S. Zaric, Canada

Wei Zhang, Canada

Yiduo Zhang, USA

We hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2015 to be both interesting and informative. The editors have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year and look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in the field in 2016.

With best wishes from the staff of PharmacoEconomics and all at Adis Publications.