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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
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Acknowledgement to Referees. Drug Saf 46, 1297–1301 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-023-01369-2
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