Dear Reader,

Welcome to the final issue of Drug Safety for 2023.

I wish to reflect on this year’s achievements, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the quality of the content published in the journal.

I would like to start by thanking the authors of the articles published in Drug Safety over the course of 2023. The enthusiasm of all authors for their chosen fields and their willingness to contribute content to the journal are crucial for its continued success.

The high quality of content published in Drug Safety has been reflected in the most recent Journal Impact Factor of 4.2 (placing the journal in the first quartile of the Toxicology category) and a CiteScore™ of 8.2 (placing the journal in the first quartile of the Pharmacology and Toxicology categories). In 2022, more than 680,000 full-text articles were downloaded. Further, Drug Safety has published content in a timely manner, with a median time from submission to first decision of 17 days.

The quality of published articles is also testament to the diligence of the peer reviewers, whose willingness to share their expertise ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest standard. I would like to acknowledge the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Drug Safety in the last 12 months:

Karel Allegaert, Belgium

Thamir M. Alshammari, Saudi Arabia

Pei-San Ang, Singapore

AbdulAzeez A. Anjorin, Nigeria

Alejandro Arana, Spain

Jeffrey K. Aronson, UK

Esther Artime, Spain

Tarik Asselah, France

Ar Kar Aung, Australia

Nobutaka Ayani, Japan

Haleh Bagheri, France

Priya Bahri, the Netherlands

Jane P.F. Bai, USA

Juan M. Banda, USA

Maria A. Barbieri, Italy

Yves Barmaz, Switzerland

Melissa Baysari, Australia

Patrick E. Beeler, Switzerland

Christoph Beger, Germany

Paul Beninger, USA

Charles L. Bennett, USA

Sabine Bergler, Canada

Monica L. Bertoia, USA

Jiang Bian, USA

Kevin Bihan, France

Sander Borgsteede, the Netherlands

Taxiarchis Botsis, USA

Judith Bouchardy, Switzerland

Richard D. Boyce, USA

Ian W. Boyd, Australia

Rebecca L. Bromley, UK

Josipa Bukic, Croatia

Cristina Bulai-Livideanu, France

Michael Camilleri, USA

Gianmario Candore, Germany

Andrew P.F. Carson-Stevens, UK

Andrea Carugno, Italy

Alfonso Carvajal, Spain

Scott R. Ceresnak, USA

Michael Ceulemans, Belgium

Rebecca E. Chandler, UK

Martin Chapman, UK

Emmanuele Chersoni, Hong Kong

Stefania Chiappini, Italy

Chelsea Childs, USA

Yohann M. Chiu, Canada

Nam-Kyong Choi, Republic of Korea

Andrea K. Chomistek, USA

Imti Choonara, UK

Laurent Chouchana, France

Kenneth R. Conner, USA

Jennifer Corny, France

Anthony R. Cox, UK

Ineke Crijns, the Netherlands

Holly Crowe, USA

David Czock, Germany

Dingwei Dai, USA

Miranda Davies, UK

Mellar Davis, USA

Sieta T. de Vries, The Netherlands

Arnaud Del Bello, France

Petra Denig, The Netherlands

Helen Dolk, Ireland

Rohan D'Souza, Canada

Elena Dudukina, Denmark

William H. DuMouchel, USA

Geneviève Durrieu, France

Mervyn J. Eadie, Australia

Vera Ehrenstein, Denmark

Simon Erridge, UK

Steven R. Feldman, USA

Sara Ferrer, USA

Daniel Fife, USA

Josef Finsterer, Austria

Allan Fong, USA

Reynold D.C. Francisca, The Netherlands

Bryony D. Franklin, UK

Christoph Friedrich, Germany

Hiroshi Furukawa, Japan

Michele Fusaroli, Italy

Mario Gaio, Italy

Kate Gelperin, USA

David Gerrett, UK

Alicia Gilsenan, USA

Ralf Gold, Germany

Ainhoa Gomez-Lumbreras, USA

Débora D. Gräf, Denmark

Natalia Grabar, France

Sonia M. Grandi, Canada

Aurélie Grandvuillemin, France

Birgitta Grundmark, Sweden

Sinem Ezgi Gulmez, Turkey

Linda Härmark, The Netherlands

Udo Hahn, Germany

Sarah Hale, USA

Christine E. Hallgreen, Denmark

Jurij Hanzel, Slovenia

Rave Harpaz, USA

Alys Havard, Australia

Fridtjof Heyerdahl, Norway

Andrew Hill, UK

Adrian Hire, UK

Joachim Hombach, Switzerland

Jonathan R. Honegger, USA

Keiko Hosohata, Japan

Kouichi Hosomi, Japan

Louise Hughes, UK

Magdalena Hurkacz, Poland

Masao Iwagami, Japan

Janique G. Jessurun, The Netherlands

Naomi Jessurun, The Netherlands

Ari Joffe, USA

Jeremy D. Jokinen, USA

Steven C. Jones, USA

Sebastian Jugl, USA

JaeHun Jung, Republic of Korea

Hideto Kameda, Japan

Sigal Kaplan, Israel

Cormac Kennedy, Ireland

Charles Khouri, France

Ronald Kiguba, Uganda

Sarah Kim, USA

Kevin Klein, The Netherlands

Stephan Kraehenbuehl, Switzerland

Ryosuke Kumazawa, Japan

Leila G. Lackey, USA

Jennifer E. Lafata, USA

Edward Chia-Cheng Lai, Taiwan, Republic of China

Volker Lauschke, Sweden

Ju-Yeun Lee, Republic of Korea

Stephanie Lee, Canada

Roberto Leone, Italy

James Leong, Singapore

Joel Lexchin, Canada

Lin Li, USA

Xiaotong Li, USA

Renly Lim, Australia

Elisangela D.C. Lima, Brazil

Rickard Ljung, Sweden

Niccolò Lombardi, Italy

David W. Loring, USA

Jeffrey K. Low, USA

María I. Lucena, Spain

Brian Lund, USA

Lars C. Lund, Denmark

Timothe Menard, Switzerland

Nora Möhn, Germany

Malcolm Maclure, Canada

Maria C. Magnus, Norway

Victoria Male, UK

Marek Malik, UK

Daniel C. Malone, USA

David M. Mannino, USA

Ishak A. Mansi, USA

Oriol Manuel, Switzerland

Yi Min Mao, China

Marianthi Markatou, USA

Judith C. Maro, USA

Mar Martín-Pérez, Spain

Simon Maskell, UK

Elie Matar, Australia

Cristiano Matos, Portugal

Géric Maura, France

Helen McShane, UK

Hemalkumar B. Mehta, USA

Eva-Lisa Meldau, Sweden

Kristin Melton, USA

Chandini Menon, Malaysia

Todd A. Miano, USA

Joëlle Micallef, France

Karsten Midtvedt, Norway

Tamara Miller, USA

Barbara Mintzes, Australia

Remco Molenaar, The Netherlands

Keran Moll, USA

Daniel Morales, UK

Pedro Moro, USA

Domenico Motola, Italy

Luke Mounce, UK

Monica A. Muñoz, USA

Tinashe Mudzviti, Zimbabwe

Renuka Munshi, India

Rachel Murphy, The Netherlands

Tanya R. Myers, USA

Puja Myles, UK

Nellie Najafian, USA

Luigi Naldi, Italy

Mamoru Narukawa, Japan

Pantelis Natsiavas, Greece

Victoria Newbould, UK

Santiago Nicholls, USA

Takahiro Niimura, Japan

Gunnar P. Nilsson, Sweden

Yoshihiro Noguchi, Japan

Roberta Noseda, Switzerland

Renata Pacholczak-Madej, Poland

Alexandra C. Pacurariu, UK

Joseph J. Palamar, USA

Josep Pane, USA

Asad E. Patanwala, Australia

Giorgio Patelli, Italy

Germain Perrin, France

Rachel Perry, USA

Rebecca Persson, USA

Marek Petráš, Czech Republic

Peter J. Pitts, USA

Elisabetta Poluzzi, Italy

Naresh Poondla, USA

Charles Powell, USA

Richeek Pradhan, Canada

Lluís Puig, Spain

Dima Qato, USA

Monika S. Raethke, The Netherlands

Emanuel Raschi, Italy

Olivier Rascol, France

Annette Regan, USA

Zeljko Reiner, Croatia

Françoise Renaud, Switzerland

Christel Renoux, Canada

Jenna M. Reps, UK

Michael J. Rieder, Canada

Elena Rocca, Norway

Victoria Rollason, Switzerland

Claudio Romano, Italy

Lionel Rostaing, France

Dhakrit Rungkitwattanakul, USA

Massimiliano Russo, USA

Mulugeta Russom, Eritrea

Leyla Sahin, USA

María Sainz-Gil, Spain

Yoshifumi Saisho, Japan

Mio Sakuma, Japan

Francesco Salvo, France

Daisaku Sato, Japan

Odile Sauzet, Germany

Lucie-Marie Scailteux, France

Wiebke Schäfer, Germany

Stéphane Schück, France

Stephen Schachterle, USA

Fabrizio Schifano, UK

Tara Schuller, Canada

David Schultz, Australia

David L. Scott, UK

John D. Seeger, USA

Pathiyil R. Shankar, Saint Lucia

Joshua M. Sharfstein, USA

Nadine Shehata, Canada

Sonal Singh, USA

Meredith Y. Smith, USA

Luca Soraci, Italy

Vicente Soriano, Spain

Andrea Spini, Italy

Sushama K. Sreedhara, USA

Mary Stapleton, Ireland

Pasquale Stefanizzi, Italy

Mark Stettner, Germany

Michael Sticherling, Germany

Fabrizio Stocchi, Italy

Neil J. Stone, USA

Loreen Straub, USA

Elizabeth A. Suarez, USA

Savitha Subramanian, USA

Jeffrey J. Swigris, USA

Yoshinori Takeuchi, Japan

Martina Teichert, The Netherlands

Chengwen Teng, USA

Rolf Teschke, Germany

Petra A. Thurmann, Germany

Justine Tomlinson, UK

Manabu Torii, USA

Carla Torre, Portugal

Ugochi V. Ukah, USA

Peter Valent, Austria

Lionel van Holle, Belgium

Florence van Hunsel, The Netherlands

John van Stekelenborg, USA

Hugo E. Vargas, USA

Mauro Venegoni, Italy

Marta Vernero, Italy

Ulrich Vogel, Germany

Ed Waddingham, UK

Rika Wakao, Japan

Robert Walker, New Zealand

Hanyin Wang, USA

Liwei Wang, USA

Xiaobo Wang, China

Clemens Warnke, Germany

Laura Waters, UK

Jianxiang Wei, China

Xuerong Wen, USA

Mike Wilcock, UK

Ross D. Williams, The Netherlands

Yonghui Wu, USA

Keele E. Wurst, USA

Richard D. Wyss, USA

Barbara P. Yawn, USA

Dong Keon Yon, Republic of Korea

Changqing Yu, China

Yihua B. Yu, USA

Oscar E. Zazueta, Mexico

Yanmin Zhu, USA

Zeyun Zhou, USA

I am also very grateful to all members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board (listed below), who have acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy, and processes.

G. Caleb Alexander, USA

Giuseppe Andò, Italy

Laurent Azoulay, Canada

Joanne Barnes, New Zealand

Andrew Bate, UK

David W. Bates, USA

Frank M.C. Besag, UK

Subhrojyoti Bhowmick, India

Einar S. Björnsson, Iceland

Benjamin D. Bray, UK

Nicholas Buckley, Australia

Nabarun Dasgupta, USA

Ric O. Day, Australia

Fabrizio De Ponti, Italy

Alexander N.O. Dodoo, Ghana

I. Ralph Edwards, Sweden

Antonie C.G. Egberts, The Netherlands

Adolfo Figueiras, Spain

Joshua Gagne, USA

Stephen A. Goldman, USA

Staffan Hägg, Sweden

Kenneth Y. Hartigan-Go, Philippines

Laurence Howes, Australia

David Hunt, UK

Susan Jick, USA

Stephan Krähenbühl, Switzerland

Joan-Ramon Laporte, Spain

Deborah Layton, UK

Hervé Le Louet, Sweden

James H. Lewis, USA

David F.L. Liew, Australia

Marie Lindquist, Sweden

Yoon K. Loke, UK

Yuan Luo, USA

Christopher R. Meier, Switzerland

Ronald Meijboom, The Netherlands

Peter G.M. Mol, The Netherlands

Jean-Louis Montastruc, France

Nicholas Moore, France

G. Niklas Norén, Sweden

Munir Pirmohamed, UK

Ruth L. Savage, New Zealand

Nigam Shah, USA

Rashmini R. Shah, UK

Saad Shakir, UK

Neil Shear, Canada

Janet Sultana, Malta

Nicholas P. Tatonetti, USA

Gianluca Trifirò, Italy

Marco Tuccori, Italy

Eugene P. van Puijenbroek, The Netherlands

Almut Winterstein, USA

Ian C.K. Wong, UK

Li Zhang, China

We do hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in Drug Safety to be interesting and informative. The editorial schedule for 2024 is well under way, and we are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.

With best wishes,

Nitin Joshi

Editor-in-Chief, Drug Safety