Dear Reader

As we reach the final issue of Clinical Pharmacokinetics for 2013, we hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year to be interesting and informative. The editors and publishing staff have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year. The publishing schedule for 2014 is well under way, and we are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.

The quality of articles published in Clinical Pharmacokinetics was acknowledged in the new Impact Factor for 2012, which increased 13 % over that for 2011 to 6.109. The journal is now placed 13th in the Pharmacology & Pharmacy category. The Adis portfolio as a whole saw impressive Impact Factor gains, with flagship journals continuing to increase their citations—Drugs raised its Impact Factor to 4.633 and Sports Medicine also saw a significant rise to 5.237. The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research saw an increase of more than 170 % in its Impact Factor to 1.565, only one year after first appearing in the Journal Citation Reports®.

2013 saw the successful integration of the Adis portfolio of journals into the Springer production systems and custom-built platforms (SpringerLink, Springer for R&D, and Springer for Hospitals & Health). We are confident that our authors and subscribers will benefit from improved discoverability, mobile optimisation and robust delivery of content on these platforms. Further, Springer production capacity has allowed us to increase the number of articles published while considerably reducing submission-to-publication times across the portfolio.

Looking ahead to 2014, the Adis portfolio will continue to grow the amount of content published while maintaining high standards. The number of Adis titles will also increase as existing quality Springer journals are brought under the Adis brand—Advances in Therapy, Targeted Oncology, and the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. Adis are also committed to fostering Open Access publication: all Adis titles offer the Springer Open Choice option and we are adding a further ten fully Open Access titles in specific therapy areas such as Diabetes Therapy, Cardiology and Therapy and Dermatology and Therapy, previously published under the Springer Healthcare imprint. Information about the portfolio can be found on Springer.com/Adis.

We would like to thank all the authors who have contributed articles to Clinical Pharmacokinetics in the last 12 months. They have generously set aside time in their busy schedules to prepare content, and without their hard work and diligence we would not have been able to publish the journal. The quality of published articles also reflects the significant time and effort dedicated by the peer reviewers, who ensure that we continue to publish content of 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 referees for articles in Clinical Pharmacokinetics in 2013:

Susan M. Abdel-Rahman, USA

Darrell R. Abernethy, USA

Edward Acosta, USA

Suresh Agarwal, USA

Fatemeh Akhlaghi, USA

Karel Allegaert, Belgium

David D.J. Back, UK

Rose D. Baker, UK

Jeffrey S. Barrett, USA

Imke Heleen Bartelink, USA

Matthijs L. Becker, The Netherlands

Ettore Beghi, Italy

Troels K. Bergmann, Denmark

Julie Bertand, UK

Joseph S. Bertino Jr, USA

Eliane M. Billaud, France

Benoit Blanchet, France

Martin Bornhauser, Germany

Dion R. Brocks, Canada

Richard Brundage, USA

William J. Burman, USA

Teresa Cabaleiro, Spain

Dario Cattaneo, Italy

Christelle Cauffiez, France

Kellie Charles, Australia

Balram B. Chowbay, Singapore

Hu Chuanpu, USA

Adi Cohen, USA

Alberto Corsini, Italy

William Couet, France

Timothy Cressey, USA

Chantal Csajka, Switzerland

Dinesh de Alwis, USA

Betty J. Dong, USA

Thomas C. Dowling, USA

Cyrielle Dumont, France

Andrea Edginton, Canada

Karel Eechoute, The Netherlands

Thomas Eissing, Germany

Douglas J. Eleveld, The Netherlands

Lorenzo Falchi, Italy

James H. Fischer, USA

James W. Fisher, USA

Martin F. Fromm, Germany

Reginald F. Frye, USA

Uwe Fuhr, Germany

Masahide Fukudo, Japan

Mario Furlanut, Italy

Alexsandra Galetin, UK

Iain Gardner, UK

Maria J. Garrido, Spain

Guillermo Gervasini, Spain

Leonid Gibiansky, USA

Barry E. Gidal, USA

Pascal Girard, Switzerland

Jennifer Goldman, USA

Larry K. Golightly, USA

Sylvain Goutelle, France

Navin Goyal, USA

Paul Owen Gubbins, USA

Henk-Jan Guchelaar, The Netherlands

Bill J. Gurley, USA

David W. Haas, USA

Walter Emil Haefeli, Germany

Sam Harirforoosh, USA

Stefanie Hennig, Australia

Nils O. Hoem, Norway

Brian J.B. Houston, UK

Zhe-Yi Hu, USA

Zhuohan Hu, China

Shiew-Mei Huang, USA

Selwyn J. Hurwitz, USA

Ichiro I. Ieiri, Japan

Toshihiko Ikeda, Japan

Juan M. Irache, Spain

Nina Isoherranen, USA

Pamala Jacobson, USA

Philippe Jacqmin, Belgium

Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain, France

Markus Joerger, Switzerland

Svein Ivar Johannessen, Norway

Trevor N. Johnson, UK

Byron Jones, Switzerland

Bridgette L. Jones, USA

Vincent Jullien, France

Amal Kaddoumi, USA

Thomas Kakuda, USA

Frieder Keller, Germany

Tony K.L. Kiang, Canada

Mark Kirstein, USA

Charlotte Kloft, Germany

Tsutomu Kotegawa, Japan

John M. Kovarik, Switzerland

Wojciech Krzyzanski, USA

Olaf Kuhlmann, Switzerland

Shaun Kumar, Australia

Jörn Lötsch, Germany

Cornelia B. Landersdorfer, USA

Cecilie J Landmark, Norway

Yi-Yang Lau, USA

Eric Lazartigues, USA

Hans H. Lennernas, Sweden

Juan J.L. Lertora, USA

Lawrence J. Lesko, USA

Janel Long-Boyle, USA

Joseph D. Ma, USA

Iftekhar Mahmood, USA

Pierre Marquet, France

Massimo Carlo Mauri, Italy

James McAuley, USA

Bernd Meibohm, USA

Murad R. Melhem, USA

Angela Men, USA

David E. Moody, USA

Trefor O. Morgan, Australia

Diane R. Mould, USA

Flora Tshinanu Musuamba, Belgium

Cornelis Neef, The Netherlands

Laurent Nguyen, France

Klaus T. Olkkola, Finland

Joel S. Owen, USA

Neha Sheth Pandit, USA

Philip N. Patsalos, UK

Olavi R. Pelkonen, Finland

Vidya Perera, USA

Juan José Pérez-Ruixo, Spain

Carlos Perez-Ruixo, Spain

Klas Petersson, USA

Nicolas Picard, France

Patrick Poulin, Canada

Aurelie Premaud, France

Jose M. Quesada-Gomez, Spain

Leslie Raffini, USA

Isabelle D. Ragueneau-Majlessi, USA

William Robert Ravis, USA

Micaela B. Reddy, USA

David M. Reith, New Zealand

Michael J. Rieder, Canada

Sara E. Rosenbaum, USA

Annick Rousseau, France

Amparo Sanchez Navarro, Spain

André J. Scheen, Belgium

Gaia Schiavon, UK

Catherine M.T. Sherwin, USA

Yan Shu, USA

Vikash K. Sinha, Belgium

Christine E. Staatz, Australia

Joseph F. Standing, UK

Yuichi Y. Sugiyama, Japan

Anne-Marie Taburet, France

BreAnn N. Taylor, USA

Frank-Peter Theil, USA

Courtney D. Thornburg, USA

Ivan Tkac, Slovakia

Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden

Dietmar Trenk, Germany

Iñaki F. Troconiz, Spain

Mart A.F.J. van de Laar, The Netherlands

Karthik Venkatakrishnan, USA

Roger K. Verbeeck, Belgium

Alexander A. Vinks, USA

Daniel Wolff, Germany

Daniel Frank Broughton Wright, New Zealand

Zenhua Xu, USA

Maciej J. Zamek-Gliszczynski, USA

Markus Zeitlinger, Austria

Lei Zhang, USA

Along with our schedule of invited articles, we also encourage the submission of high-quality reviews and original research articles. We would like to remind you to keep Clinical Pharmacokinetics in mind when deciding where to submit your research. We also welcome comment from our readers on any of our articles.

We look forward to your continued support of the journal in 2014 and to bringing you first-class content from around the globe. With best wishes from the staff of Clinical Pharmacokinetics and all at Adis Publications.