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