Welcome to the 2023 volume of the Group Decision & Negotiation journal. Like in 2020 and 2021, the world was still affected by COVID 19 in 2022. Slowly, we went back into our workplaces, interacted with colleagues face-to-face again, welcomed students on campus, yet all the time being aware that the pandemic was far from over. Our flexibility and resilience was once more tested. The GDN 2022 conference in Toronto was again a digital conference which did not lessen the creativity and zest for new GDN research as shown by all participants. We continue to look forward to publishing some of the best conference papers in the journal.

2022 was another successful year for the GDN journal. We received a total of 247 submissions which is an increase of 20% compared to the previous year. The six issues of the journal published a total of 45 papers including a Special Issue on Negotiation Systems and Studies in honor of our late colleague Gregory Kersten. The average number of days from submission to first decision dropped from 92 days in 2019 to 33 days in 2021 and 2022. This is an amazing turnaround time which everyone on the editorial board should feel proud about! The journal’s h-index improved further to 63 while the journal’s impact factor increased from 1.612 in 2019 to 2.928 in 2021. The CiteScore increased to 5.0 in 2022. Finally, we registered a record number of full-text article downloads in 2022: 128,570, a 3% increase compared to 2021.

Together, these numbers show that the journal continues to be the prime outlet for research on group decision and negotiation. Our aim continues to be soliciting strong submissions that receive a swift decision to keep improving the journal’s metrics in 2023. We welcome proposals for special issues and submissions on innovative topics. Review papers are also encouraged that can serve as a focal point for specific GDN research areas.

1 The Editorial Board & Reviewers

The Group Decision & Negotiation journal is fortunate to have a committed editorial board and group of reviewers. They work tirelessly to assess the contributions and quality of each submission that is entered into the review process. They assist the authors through constructive criticism to ensure that each published paper makes a significant contribution to the Group Decision & Negotiation body of knowledge.

We are extremely grateful to our current editorial board members, several of whom have carried a heavy load. We truly appreciate their hard work and dedication during the past year. For 2023, there are a few changes to the composition of the board. First, we were deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Love Ekenberg from Stockholm University in Sweden. He was a valued and active member of our board for many years and we will greatly miss his insights, collegiality, and friendship. Second, several board members indicated their desire to retire. We thank the following colleagues for their many years of service to our community:

  • Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich, Germany

  • João Clímaco, University of Coimbra, Portugal

  • Sascha Kurz, University of Bayreuth, Germany

  • Jeryl Mumpower, Texas A&M University, USA

  • Bertrand Munier, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

We are also grateful to welcome several new board members who will strengthen the board’s coverage of the various GDN research areas and also strengthen the board’s diversity in terms of global regions, gender, career stage, and ethnicity. Our newest board members are:

  • Hillie Aaldering, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Muhammed-Fatih Kaya, University of Hohenheim, Germany

  • Hengjie Zhang, Hohai University, China

We would be amiss not to recognize the fantastic support from the editorial team at Springer: Matthew Amboy, Ashlea Highfill, Chitra Vijayaraghavan, Ambiga Selvaraj, Balamurugan Rajendran, Jolanda Voogd, and Cameron de Kreij. We are grateful for their professionalism and responsiveness. It is a pleasure to work with each and every one of them.

Finally, on behalf of the Editorial Board we would like to acknowledge all reviewers for their efforts and for their swift and dedicated work that made the 2022 volume possible:

Mehdi Abbasi

Atif Açıkgöz

Coulibaly Adama

Juan Aguarón

Muhammad Akram

Aureli Alabert

Naif Alawi

M. Josune Albizuri

Luís Alçada Almeida

Andreas Alexiou

Guilherme Amorim

Ryuta Arisaka

Alice H. Aubert

Reyhan Aydogan

William Baber

Jordan Barlow

Guy Barokas

Bruce Barry

Ruth Ben-Yashar

Sumana Biswas

Bosko Blagojevic

Bob Cavana

Pinar Celik

Zhen-Song Chen

Xia Chen

Ana Costa

László Csató

Metin Dagdeviren

Suzana Daher

Mats Danielson

Claudio De Mattos

Triparna de Vreede

Enes Demiralay

Xiaopeng Deng

Lihi Dery

William Donohue

Viktor Dörfler

Ulle Endriss

Markus Ewert

Carlos Ferreira

Mohammad Reza Feylizadeh

Jerry Fjermestad

Eduarda Frej

Shixuan Fu

Fabio Galeotti

Zaiwu Gong

Dorota Gorecka

Xunjie Gou

Michel Grabisch

Wen Gu

Ani Guerdjikova

Rafik Hadfi

Yu Han

Jawad Haqbeen

Einav Hart

Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler

Shawei He

Xianpei Hong

Yuming Huang

Takehiro Inohara

Andrés Jiménez-Losada

Richard John

Nipat Jongsawat

Bogumil Kaminski

Nor Hanimah Kamis

Eric Kamwa

Parmjit Kaur

Muhammed Fatih Kaya

Ginger Ke

Peter Kesting

Tomáš Kliegr

Bomin Ko

David Kocsis

Aleksei Y. Kondratev

Venkataraghavan Krishnaswamy

Lech Krus

Hanbin Kuang

Franki Kung

Álvaro Labella

Jerome Lang

Christoph Laubert

Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Leland

Alexandre Leoneti

Roy Lewicki

Huimin Li

Xuemei Li

Yongjun Li

Hui Li

Mingwei Lin

Fang Liu

Yating Liu

Yujia Liu

Wenqi Liu

David Lowing

Tariq Malik

Ricardo Marcão

Luis Martinez

Bilyana Martinovski

Katarzyna Mazur-Włodarczyk

Paulo Melo

Maísa Mendonça Silva

Marc Mertes

Jerzy Michnik

Milad Mirbabaie

Arunodaya Mishra

Xavier Molinero

Maria Montero

Jose Maria Moreno Jimenez

Sarah Oeste-Reiß

Jan Oresky

Dragan Pamucar

Claudio Panico

Javier Pereira

Alex Possajennikov

Jimena Ramirez-Marin

Leandro Rêgo

Peijia Ren

Arash Saghafi

Sofia Sahab

Wojciech Salabun

Jorge Santos

Paula Sarabando

Mohsen Shahbaznezhadfard

Erfang Shan

Sudeep Sharma

Ruchi Sinha

Filipe Souza

Wolfgang Steinel

Takahiro Suzuki

Marek Szopa

Andranik Tangian

Tünde Tátrai

Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam

Kevin Techer

Michiel Tempelaar

Zoi Terzopoulou

Marcella Urtiga

Per van der Wijst

Shuping Wan

Junjie Wang

Marco Warsitzka

Guiwu Wei

Frederik Wiedmann

Robert Wilken

Zhenggao Wu

ShiKui Wu

Zhibin Wu

Jiuping Xu

Yejun Xu

Morteza Yazdani

Saied Yousefi

Jing Yu

Xiaodan Yu

Alfred Zerres

Quanbo Zha

Weiwei Zhang

Ya Zhang

Zhen Zhang

Wen-Ran Zhang

Shinan Zhao

Wei Zhou

We wish everyone a healthy and successful 2023!