Acknowledgement to Referees

Dear Reader,

As we approach the end of 2016, and publish our final issue of CNS Drugs for the year, we wish to reflect on another successful year for the journal and for others in the Adis Premier journals portfolio, and to thank all who have contributed to CNS Drugs over the past 12 months.

During 2016, over 90 articles have been published in CNS Drugs. The most popular of these, in terms of downloads, have been:

• May the Force Be With You: The Light and Dark Sides of the Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis in Neuropsychiatry. Eoin Sherwin, Kiran V. Sandhu, Timothy G. Dinan, John F. Cryan [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0370-3]

• Identifying and Managing Pain in People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Types of Dementia: A Systematic Review. Bettina S. Husebo, Wilco Achterberg, Elisabeth Flo [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0342-7]

• The Direct Effects of Fingolimod in the Central Nervous System: Implications for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis. Samuel F. Hunter, James D. Bowen, Anthony T. Reder [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-015-0297-0]

• Unexplained Painful Physical Symptoms in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Prevalence, Pathophysiology and Management. Jan Jaracz, Karolina Gattner, Krystyna Jaracz, Krystyna Górna [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0328-5]

• Perispinal Delivery of CNS Drugs. Edward Lewis Tobinick [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0339-2]

• Teriflunomide in Patients with Relapsing–Remitting Forms of Multiple Sclerosis. Andrew Chan, Jérôme de Seze, Manuel Comabella [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-015-0299-y]

• (S)-Ketamine in Refractory and Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: A Retrospective Study. Julia Höfler, Alexandra Rohracher, Gudrun Kalss, Georg Zimmermann, Judith Dobesberger, Georg Pilz, Markus Leitinger, Giorgi Kuchukhidze, Kevin Butz, Alexandra Taylor, Helmut Novak, Eugen Trinka [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0371-2]

• A Randomized Trial of Iloperidone for Prevention of Relapse in Schizophrenia: The REPRIEVE Study. Peter J. Weiden, Raymond Manning, Curt D. Wolfgang, J. Michael Ryan, Linda Mancione, Guangyang Han, Saeed Ahmed, Mallery G. Mayo [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0345-4]

• Aripiprazole and Acute Extrapyramidal Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis. Chiara Bernagie, Marina Danckaerts, Martien Wampers, Marc De Hert [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0367-y]

• Potential Role of Oestrogen Modulation in the Treatment of Neurocognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia. Thomas W. Weickert, Katherine M. Allen, Cynthia S. Weickert [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-016-0312-0]

We thank the authors who contributed these high interest articles, and all other authors who have contributed articles to CNS Drugs over the course of 2016. The skill and dedication of all authors are critical to the continued publication of the journal.

Mid-2016 saw the release of the ISI Journal Citation Reports and the latest journal impact factors. The impact factor for CNS Drugs held steady, at 4.910, and the journal remains in the top 20% of its respective categories (Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Clinical Neurology, and Psychiatry). The majority of our other journals saw a rise in impact factor against the previous year. Most notably, five of our journals saw an increase of over 10% in impact factor—The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (17.08% increase), Clinical Drug Investigation (15.99%), the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology (13.17%), Drug Safety (13.52%), and Drugs (12.43%).

Another important milestone was reached for our recently launched open access journals, Drug Safety—Case Reports and Drugs—Real World Outcomes. Content from these journals is now available on PubMed Central.

The Adis journals portfolio will expand in 2017, with the launch of PharmacoEconomics—Open. This new journal will be fully open access and will focus on the publication of applied research on the economic implications and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions. It joins our other well respected health outcomes publications, PharmacoEconomics, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, and The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.

The quality of published articles is, similarly, testament to the significant efforts of the peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest possible standard. We would like to thank the following individuals who acted as reviewers for CNS Drugs in the last 12 months:

Elias Aboujaoude, USA

Bassel Abou-Khalil, USA

Anthony J. Alberg, USA

Martin Alda, Canada

Marianne Amalric, France

Susan E. Andrade, USA

Angelo Antonini, Italy

Muhammad Arif, UK

Bernard Bannwarth, France

Trino T. Baptista, Venezuela

Alasdair M. Barr, Canada

Robert H. Belmaker, Israel

Elinor Ben-Menachem, Sweden

Michel J. Berg, USA

Samuel F. Berkovic, Australia

Marcelo L. Berthier, Spain

Frank M.C. Besag, UK

Jacqueline Birks, UK

Robert Boden, Sweden

Soenke Boettger, Switzerland

Richard K. Bogan, USA

Laura Jayne Bonnett, UK

Kathleen T. Brady, USA

Jorgen G. Bramness, Norway

Nicholas J. Breitborde, USA

Francesco Brigo, Italy

Marisa Brini, Italy

Dion R. Brocks, Canada

Hannah Brown, USA

Kimbery A. Brownley, USA

Alistair M. Buchan, UK

Philip W. Burnet, UK

Ramon Cacabelos, Spain

Heather Caldwell, USA

Harold Carlson, USA

Dean S. Carson, USA

Alexandre Castro Caldas, Portugal

Roberto Ceravolo, Italy

Andrew Chan, Germany

Nancy Chiaravalloti, USA

Tanuja Chitnis, USA

Yong Won Cho, Republic of Korea

Pierre Stanley Chue, Canada

Wei-Hsuan Jenny Ciganic, USA

Leslie Citrome, USA

Ian A. Clark, Australia

Anita A.H. Clayton, USA

S. José Closs, UK

Aaron M. Cook, USA

William Coryell, USA

James Russell Couch Jr, USA

Patricia K. Coyle, USA

Caroline Dalton, UK

Martin Daumer, Germany

Mellar Davis, USA

Stefano de Biase, Italy

Nicola De Stefano, Italy

Florian Deisenhammer, Austria

Lindsay C.L. DeVane, USA

Seymour Diamond, USA

Sofia Dias, UK

Kim Donoghue, UK

Ursula C. Drager, USA

Anne Duffy, Canada

Serdar M. Dursun, Canada

Charmane I. Eastman, USA

Elizabeth Eckman, USA

Robin R.A. Emsley, South Africa

Laszlo Endrenyi, Canada

Inmaculada Failde, Spain

Mercé Falip, Spain

Mehdi Farokhnia, USA

Edoardo Ferlazzo, Italy

José L. Fernández-Torre, Spain

Ingo Fietze, Germany

Robert Flanagan, UK

Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, USA

Leonardo F. Fontenelle, Brazil

Thomas G. Forsthuber, USA

Anthony William Fox, UK

Mark Steven Freedman, Canada

Lawrence K. Fung, USA

Maximilian Gahr, Germany

Adeline Gallini, France

James C. Garbutt, USA

Victor Gault, UK

Patricia Gerberg, USA

Godfrey S. Getz, USA

Lawrence I. Golbe, USA

David William Goodman, USA

Harry Gould III, USA

Shelley L. Gray, USA

David J. Greenblatt, USA

Larry Greenhill, USA

Paul Grof, Canada

Heinz C.R. Grunze, UK

Antoni Gual, Spain

Anand Gururajan, Ireland

Bruce Guthrie, UK

Kevin Haas, USA

Martina Hahn, Germany

Paul Hammerness, USA

Ryan N. Hansen, USA

Craig T. Hartrick, USA

Philip D. Harvey, USA

W. Allen Hauser, USA

Keela Herr, USA

Nathan Herrmann, Canada

Gregory L. Holmes, USA

Clive Holmes, UK

Martin Holtkamp, Germany

Caroline M. Hostetler, USA

Elena Huerta-Ramos, Spain

Samuel F. Hunter, USA

L. Fredrik Jarskog, USA

Mats Johnson, Sweden

Wolfgang H. Jost, Germany

Tomas Kalincik, Australia

Bengt Kallen, Sweden

Christian Kamm, Germany

Korinna Karampampa, Sweden

Celeste Karch, USA

Seth M. Keller, USA

Christoph Kellinghaus, Germany

Ai Leng Khoo, Singapore

Bernd C. Kieseier, Germany

Pavel Klein, USA

Wolfgang Kohler, Germany

Amos D. Korczyn, Israel

Aleksandra Kotlinska-Lemieszek, Poland

Jayashri Kulkarni, Australia

Malcolm H. Lader, UK

Patrice Lalive, Switzerland

Tim Lambert, Australia

Anthony E. Lang, Canada

Hans Lassmann, Austria

Mary Lee, USA

Cynthia Lemere, USA

Florence F. Levy, Australia

F. Markus Leweke, Germany

Ryan Lewinson, Canada

Peter A. LeWitt, USA

Shane A. Liddelow, USA

Hugo H. Lovheim, Sweden

M. Isabel Lucena, Spain

Alessandra Lugaresi, Italy

Richard B. Mailman, USA

Lenka Maletinska, Czech Republic

Gin S. Malhi, Australia

Eliana Marengo, Argentina

Giovanni Martinotti, Italy

Louis S. Matza, USA

Ifigeneia Mavranezouli, UK

Michael J. McCarthy, USA

Robert Brett McQueen, USA

Robert L. Medcalf, Australia

Christoph R. Meier, Switzerland

Alfredo Meneses, Mexico

Natasja Menezes, Canada

Sebastiano Mercadante, Italy

Michihiro Mieda, Japan

Cristina Miguelez, Spain

Wayne Miles, New Zealand

Scott Mintzer, USA

Ambikanandan A. Misra, India

Mark E. Molitch, USA

Andrew A. Monte, USA

Rita Moretti, Italy

Sarah A. Morrow, Canada

Ann M. Mortimer, UK

Marco Mula, UK

Christian A. Muller, Germany

Astrid Muller, Germany

Thomas Muller, Germany

Richard Musil, Germany

Hugh H. Myrick, USA

Jadwiga Najib, USA

Oliver Neuhaus, Germany

Jeffrey H. Newcorn, USA

Jimmi Nielsen, Denmark

Dag Nyholm, Sweden

Brian O’Donoghue, Australia

Peter L. Oliver, UK

Chi-Un Pae, Republic of Korea

Sabrina Paganoni, USA

Ann Pakalnis, USA

Pietro Panei, Italy

Georgios Papazisis, Greece

Bjorn Pasternak, Sweden

Lars Henning Pedersen, Denmark

Steven Petratos, Australia

Maarten Postma, The Netherlands

Tamara Pringsheim, Canada

Michael D. Privitera, USA

Maria A. Rocca, Italy

Arlan L. Rosenbloom, USA

Andrea O. Rossetti, Switzerland

Tiziana Rubino, Italy

Martin Sadowski, USA

Oliver W. Sakowitz, Germany

Jerome Sarris, Australia

Magdalena Sastre, UK

Fabrizio Schifano, UK

Ole Schjerning, Denmark

Dieter Schmidt, Germany

Rod C. Scott, UK

P. Seeman, Canada

Mary V. Seeman, Canada

R. Taylor Segraves, USA

Alessandro Serretti, Italy

Emily Severance, USA

Debbie Shoemark, UK

Martha Shumway, USA

Margaret H. Sibley, USA

Michael Silber, USA

Kang Sim, Singapore

Antonio Siniscalchi, Italy

A. Niroshan Siriwardena, UK

Brian G. Skotko, USA

Mehmet M. Sofuoglu, USA

Cesar Soutullo, Spain

Edoardo Spina, Italy

Loukia M. Spineli, Germany

Mark A. Stacy, USA

Christopher Richard Steer, UK

Mark A. Stein, USA

Linda J. Stephen, UK

Michael Strober, USA

Adam Strzelczyk, Germany

Todd J. Swick, USA

Andras Szentkiralyi, Germany

Edwin C.K. Tan, Australia

Bor Luen Tang, Singapore

Vijay M. Thadani, USA

Kyla H. Thomas, UK

Michael M.J. Thorpy, USA

Manuel Toledo, Spain

Gianluca Trifirò, Italy

Georgios Tsivgoulis, Greece

Judit Usall, Spain

Rosalind van der Lem, The Netherlands

Robert J. Vassar, USA

Francois Viallet, France

Wolfgang Viechtbauer, The Netherlands

Simone N. Vigod, Canada

Jan Volavka, USA

Marcel D. Waldinger, The Netherlands

Chuanyue Wang, China

James Waxmonsky, USA

Richard H. Weisler, USA

Margaret M. Weiss, Canada

Susan J. Wenze, USA

Renata Whurr, UK

Anna Wieckowska, Poland

Heinz Wiendl, Germany

Ian Chi Kei Wong, UK

Edwina J. Wright, Australia

E. Ann Yeh, Canada

Gaetano Zaccara, Italy

Jamie M. Zeitzer, USA

Inge S. Zuhorn, The Netherlands.

In addition, we would like to thank the members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board, who have acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes:

David S. Baldwin, Southampton, England

Thomas R.E. Barnes, London, England

Meir Bialer, Jerusalem, Israel

José Biller, Maywood, IL, USA

Henry Brodaty, Randwick, NSW, Australia

Martin J. Brodie, Glasgow, Scotland

Matthew J. Carpenter, Charleston, SC, USA

Marc C. Chamberlain, Seattle, WA, USA

David R. Coghill, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Samuele Cortese, Southampton, England

Mervyn J. Eadie, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Martin R. Farlow, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Giovanni A. Fava, Bologna, Italy

W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, Innsbruck, Austria

Susan H. Fox, Toronto, ON, Canada

George T. Grossberg, St. Louis, MO, USA

Christian Guilleminault, Stanford, CA, USA

David Gurwitz, Tel Aviv, Israel

Martina Hahn, Eltville, Germany

Göran Hajak, Regensburg, Germany

Hans-Peter Hartung, Duesseldorf, Germany

Michael W. Jann, Fort Worth, TX, USA

David Kemp, Cleveland, OH, USA

Susan G. Kornstein, Richmond, VA, USA

Patrick Kwan, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Raymond W. Lam, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lorenzo Leggio, Bethesda, MD, USA

Brian E. Leonard, Galway, Ireland

Philip Mitchell, Randwick, NSW, Australia

Emilio Perucca, Pavia, Italy

Robert M. Post, Washington DC, USA

Alan M. Rapoport, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Olivier Rascol, Toulouse, France

Dennis A. Revicki, Bethesda, MD, USA

Karen L. Roos, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, Boston, MA, USA

Matthew V. Rudorfer, Bethesda, MD, USA

Steven C. Schachter, Boston, MA, USA

Stephan A. Schug, Perth, WA, Australia

Stephen D. Silberstein, Philadelphia, PA, USA

David Taylor, London, England

Claudia Trenkwalder, Kassel, Germany

Eugen Trinka, Salzburg, Austria

Benedetto Vitiello, Bethesda, MD, USA

Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Buffalo, NY, USA

John W. Winkelman, Boston, MA, USA

John Zajecka, Chicago, IL, USA

We hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2016 to be both interesting and informative. We have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year and we look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in the neurology and psychiatry fields in 2017.

With best wishes, from Kate Palmer and Sue Pochon.