Another year is nearing its end, and it has been another good one for the journal. We would like to start by thanking everyone who has been involved with us during 2014. Firstly, and importantly, we would like to thank our reviewers, whom we list below. We are aware that reviewing manuscripts is time-consuming as well as unpaid, and all too often the best reviewers are bombarded with requests, from several journals at the same time. We therefore try and spread the load amongst you, albeit with a mixed success. We realize that we rely heavily on some of you, and that you respond splendidly. We are grateful for this.
It proved extremely difficult to select the best reviewer, this year. We started with a long list and whittled it down until, in the end, we decided upon three people who have been outstanding, not just this year, but over a period of many years. They are Christoph Becher, MD, Emmanuel Thienpont, MD and Kristin Briem, PT. Thank you, for your outstanding work.
We are continuously seeking new reviewers, so as to reduce the work load, and spread it more evenly. Currently, we have more than 800 active names on our reviewer’s list. We are continuously adding to the list, and we drop some people who do not respond.
We have worked hard during the year to shorten the processing time, viz. from submission to a decision. At the same time, our rejection rate has increased. Once more, our thanks to all our reviewers, for your great efforts during this year. Your work is invaluable, and without you the journal would soon be out of business.
Our new website has been consolidated (www.kssta.org) and co-ordinated with ESSKA’s website (www.esska.org), and we now have more than 450 ‘friends’ on our Facebook page. We continuously update information on the website and Facebook. For all this, thanks to Sebastian Kopf, our web-editor.
We were delighted to learn, last June, that KSSTA’s Impact Factor for 2013 had climbed to 2.837. This places the journal in the top ten position, for both categories of Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics, and for the first time. For instance, in Orthopaedics, we climbed from 12th place to 9th. As we have said many times, there are always improvements to make, and we want to improve our Impact Factor even further in the future. We are happy with what we have achieved, but we cannot rest.
Where are we now, and what will the future bring? We published more than 3,000 pages this year (a record number), and the number of submissions rose to more than 1,300 (also a record number). Increased number of submissions is fine, but as we have mentioned earlier, it would be better to receive fewer but better papers. In fact, we are receiving more and more high-quality papers, which should lead to more readers and more citations and, at the end of the day, an improved Impact Factor.
We have made some changes to the Editorial Team, with three new Associate Editors, one starting July 2014 and the other two starting January 1, 2015. We would like to welcome Michael Hirschmann, MD, Ninni Sernert, PF and Peter Angele, MD to the Editorial Team. And, at the same time, we would like to thank Suzanne Werner, Johan Bellemans and Mats Brittberg for their excellent services over the last years.
We would also like to welcome a few new Editorial Board members. These persons have all done outstanding work as reviewers during recent years, and will no doubt in the future.
We would like to especially thank Karen Baxter, who runs the Editorial Office, the ESSKA Board and the ESSKA Office in Luxemburg for good collaboration during the year. Thanks to Zhanna Kovalchuk, who runs the ESSKA Office. As always, our friends at Springer, Gabriele Schröder and Christiane Hocke are doing outstanding work and are always helpful. The journal is produced in India, also an outstanding editorial team. Our thanks to you all.
Finally, we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year in 2015. The journal will face new challenges, but we feel that the Editorial Team and the Editorial Office are strong, and ready to face all the challenges ahead. We will certainly try to do our best.
2014 Reviewers
Aagaard, Henrik
Abrams, Jeffrey
Ackermann, Paul
Adachi, Nobuo
Agneskirchner, Jens
Ahldén, Mattias
Akira, Maeyama
Akita, Keiichi
Alentorn-Geli, Eduard
Almqvist, Fredrik
Ambrozic, Bogdan
Amendola, Annunziato
Amis, Andrew
Ando, Akira
Andrish, Jack
Angele, Peter
Antinolfi, Pierluigi
Araki, Daisuke
Arendt, Elizabeth
Arnold, Markus
Årøen, Asbjørn
Atik, O Sahap
Augustsson, Jesper
Ayeni, Olufemi
Ayerza, Miguel
Bachmann, Martin
Bae, Ji-Hoon
Balcarek, Peter
Baldini, Andrea
Balke, Maurice
Banke, Ingo
Barenius, Björn
Barfod, Kristoffer
Bartlett, John
Basad, Erhan
Bataga, Tiberiu
Bauer, Thomas
Baums, Mike
Beard, David
Beaufils, Philippe
Becher, Christoph
Beckmann, Johannes
Bedi, Asheesh
Beitzel, Knut
Benedetto, Karl-Peter
Bignozzi, Simone
Bilge, Onur
Bizzini, Mario
Bjørnsson Hallgren, Hanna
Blønd, Lars
Bohnsack, Michael
Bojsen-Møller, Jens
Bonanzinga, Tommaso
Bonnin, Michel
Bosch, Ulrich
Briem, Kristín
Briggs, Karen
Brucker, Peter
Budhiparama, Nicolaas
Burnham, Bruce
Callaghan, Michael
Campi, Stefano
Carmont, Mike
Cartucho, Antonio
Catani, Fabio
Chen, Antonia
Cheng, ChengKung
Chomiak, Jiri
Chotel, Franck
Christel, Pascal
Chung, Kee Yun
Citak, Mustafa
Clanton, Thomas
Collins, Michael
Confalonieri, Norberto
Cortes, Nelson
Cugat, Ramon
Dahm, Diane
Daniilidis, Kiriakos
Darabos, Nikica
De Bo, Thomas
De Casas, Ricardo
De Wilde, Lieven
Deie, Masataka
Dejour, David
Deshmane, Prashant
Devitt, Brian
DiStasi, Stephanie
Djian, Patrick
Donell, Simon
Doral, Mahmut
Draenert, Klaus
Drobnic, Matej
Drogset, Jon
Dye, Scott
Efe, Turgay
Einarsson, Fredrik
Ejerhed, Lars
Ekholm, Carl
Erdil, Mehmet
Eriksson, Karl
Eriksson, Bengt
Ernlund, Lucio
Eygendaal, Denise
Fabis, Jaroslaw
Familiari, Filippo
Faunö, Peter
Feller, Julian
Fernandez-Gonzalez, Julian
Ferretti, Mario
Feucht, Matthias
Filardo, Giuseppe
Fleaca, Radu
Forkel, Philipp
Forriol, Francisco
Forssblad, Magnus
Franceschi, Francesco
Friederich, Niklaus
Frink, Michael
Frosch, Karl-Heinz
Fuchs-Winkelmann, Susanne
Fulkerson, John
Gaida, James
Gandhi, Rajiv
Gardner, Edward
Garofalo, Raffaele
Georgoulis, Anastasios
Georgoulis, Anastasios
Gerhardt, Christian
Getgood, Alan
Giannini, Sandro
Gill, Thomas
Giron, Francesco
Gobbi, Alberto
Gomoll, Andreas
Granhed, Hans
Grävare Silbernagel, Karin
Grote, Stefan
Hageman, Michiel
Hamada, Junichiro
Handelberg, Frank
Handl, Milan
Hantes, Michael
Haragus, Horia
Harilainen, Arsi
Heesterbeek, Petra
Herbort, Mirco
Hiller, Claire
Hinarejos, Pedro
Hinterwimmer, Stefan
Hirschmann, Anna
Hofmann, Siegfried
Hölmich, Per
Hoshino, Yuichi
Howell, Stephen
Hulet, Christophe
Hutchinson, Mark
Imhoff, Andreas
Ingham, Sheila
Iosifidis, Michael
Iriuchishima, Takanori
Irrgang, James
Ishibashi, yasuyuki
Ishida, Kazunari
Jansen, Edwin
Janssen, Rob
Jarvela, Timo
Jelic, Mislav
Jerosch, Joerg
Jespersen, Eva
Josipovic, Mario
Kälebo, Peter
Karahan, Mustafa
Kennedy, John
Kessler, Oliver
Kinikli, Gizem
Klos, Burt
Knutsen, Gunnar
Kobayashi, Koichi
Kocaoglu, Baris
Koh, Jason
Kon, Elizaveta
Kondo, Eiji
Kopf, Sebastian
Kort, Nanne
Kostogiannis, Ioannis
Kraus, Natascha
Kropf, Eric
Krych, Aaron
Kuroda, Ryosuke
Lapner, Peter
LaPrade, Robert
Lawhorn, Keith
Lebrun, Constance
Lemos, Alberto
Lertwanich, Pisit
Levy, Bruce
Levy, Ofer
Li, Guoan
Lichtenberg, Sven
Liebensteiner, Michael
Liem, Dennis
Lind, Martin
Lindahl, Anders
Linn, Albert
Löken, Sverre
Lopomo, Nicola
Loppini, Mattia
Lorbach, Olaf
Luetzner, Joerg
Lundberg, Mari
Macdonald, Peter
Maffulli, Nicola
Magnussen, Robert
Majewski, Martin
Mandelbaum, Bert
Marcacci, Maurillio
Marcheggiani Muccioli, Giulio Maria
Margheritini, Fabrizio
Marlovits, Stefan
Marmotti, Antonio
Martetschläger, Frank
Martin, Ivan
Martinek, Vladimir
Martinez, Inigo
Marx, Robert
Mastrokalos, Dimitrios
Matheson, Gordon
Matsumoto, Tomoyuki
Matsushita, Takehiko
Mayr, Hermann-Otto
McIntosh, Amy
Meknas, Khaled
Menetrey, Jacques
Meuffels, Duncan
Milano, Giuseppe
Milewski, Matthew
Minzlaff, Philipp
Mochizuki, Tomoyuki
Mogos, Stefan
Morrissey, Dylan
Mueller, Andreas
Muellner, Thomas
Muneta, Takeshi
Murawski, Christopher
Murray, Matthew
Myers, Peter
Myers, Sara
Nakagawa, Takumi
Nakamura, Norimasa
Nebelung, Wolfgang
Nebelung, Sven
Nelitz, Manfred
Niemeyer, Philipp
Nilsson-Helander, Katarina
Nyland, John
Ochi, Mitsuo
Olsson, Nicklas
Orth, Patrick
Osawa, Aki
Pagenstert, Geert
Pap, Géza
Papadopoulos, Pericles
Pappas, Evangelos
Pasanen, Kati
Patel, Rahul
Patzer, Thilo
Pearce, Christopher
Pederzini, Luigi
Pereira, Hélder
Peretti, Giuseppe
Pfitzner, Tilman
Philippon, Marc
Pietsch, Martin
Porcellini, Guiseppe
Prodromos, Chadwick
Pujol, Nicolas
Rabuck, Stephen
Rahme, Hans
Rajgopal, Ashok
Randelli, Pietro
Randelli, Filippo
Rasmussen Barr, Eva
Rath, Bjoern
Rathod, Parthiv
Reilingh, Mikel
Ristanis, Stavros
Rohde, Thomas
Rossi, Roberto
Rosso, Claudio
Røtterud, Jan Harald
Ruiz Iban, Miguel
Russu, Octav
Sadoghi, Patrick
Safran, Marc
Salomonsson, Björn
Salzmann, Gian
Samitier, Gonzalo
Sampson, Steven
Samuelsson, Kristian
Sansone, Mikael
Schiavone Panni, Alfredo
Schindler, Oliver
Schneppendahl, Johannes
Schottle, Phillip
Schroeder, Jörg
Schuh, Reinhard
Seijas, Roberto
Sekiya, Ichiro
Sen, Cengiz
Sernert, Ninni
Servien, Elvire
Sherman, Seth
Shino, Konsei
Silvers, Holly
Simion, Luminita
Sivertsen, Einar Andreas
Skråmm, Inge
Smith, Toby
Smoljanovic, Tomislav
Sørensen, Anne Kathrine
Spahn, Gunter
Spalding, Tim
Sprowson, Andrew
Spuentrup, Elmar
Stärke, Christian
Stelzeneder, David
Strachan, Robin
Stuart, Michael
Styf, Jorma
Sugamoto, Kazuomi
Tajima, Goro
Taketomi, Shuji
Tandogan, Reha
Tecklenburg, Katja
Tedeus, Matthias
Thienpont, Emmanuel
Thorey, Fritz
Thorpe, Steven
Tompkins, Marc
Tudisco, Cosimo
Van Ark, Mathijs
Van Cingel, Robert
Van den Bekerom, Michel P. J.
Van Den Bossche, Luc
Van der Merwe, Willem
Van Deurzen, Derek
Van Eck, Carola
Vandekerckhove, Pieter-Jan
Vandenneucker, Hilde
Vanlauwe, Johan
Vasiliadis, Haris
Vauhnik, Renata
Vavken, Patrick
Vega, Jordi
Ventura, Alberto
Verdonk, Rene
Verdonk, Rene
Verdonk, Peter
Volpi, Piero
Waibl, Bernhard
Waldén, Markus
Walsh, William
Weber, Patrick
Weel, Hanneke
Weidenhielm, Lars
Whelan, Danny
Whitehead, Tim
Widhalm, Harald
Wijdicks, Coen
Willberg, Lotta
Willems, Jaap
Williams, Glenn
Wilmes, Philippe
Wilton, Timothy
Wymenga, Ate
Yasuda, Kazunori
Yoshiya, Shinichi
Younger, Alastair
Zadoroznijs, Sergejs
Zampeli, Franceska
Zeisig, Eva
Zelle, Boris
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Karlsson, J., Becker, R. Thank you for 2014. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 22, 2885–2888 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-014-3424-4
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