Dear Reader

As we reach the final issue of Drugs for 2017, I wish to reflect on another successful year’s achievements, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the high quality of our content.

2017 was a successful year for Drugs. Over 150 articles have been published, and as of the end of October, 28 of these have been downloaded from SpringerLink over 1000 times. Topics covered by these popular articles included the language of biosimilars, targeting of new signalling pathways in asthma, immune disorders and cancer, appropriate use of anti-epileptics, proton pump inhibitors and antimicrobials, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, nanobiotechnology in pain management, and new developments in the drug treatment of diabetes, psoriasis and hepatitis B.

Social media sharing of information is becoming more important and is another metric with which to measure the reach of articles. This year several articles published in Drugs scored over 20 on the Altmetric system.

The quality of articles published in the journal is also reflected in its most recent (2016) impact factor of 5.000 (up from 4.883 in 2015).

Other journals in the Adis Premier Journals Portfolio (http://www.springer.com/gp/adis) continue to prosper, and this year has seen the successful launch of PharmacoEconomics - Open, the newest journal in the portfolio. The journal has published a full volume of 30 articles in its first year, plus many more online first. Following in the steps of Adis’ flagship subscription journal in the field, PharmacoEconomics, the new open-access journal focuses on cost and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions.

The Section Editors and I offer our sincere thanks to the authors who have contributed articles to Drugs over the course of 2017. The skill and dedication of all authors are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The quality of published articles is also 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 Drugs in the last 12 months:

Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Mexico

Jill Adler-Moore, USA

Meera Agar, Australia

Per Albertsson, Sweden

Peter Albrecht, Germany

Richard P. Allen, USA

Talha M. Al-Shawaf, UK

Rieke Alten, Germany

Robert J. Amato, USA

Giuseppe Ambrosio, Italy

Winfried M. Amoaku, UK

Doralina L. Anghelescu, USA

Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA

Sabina A. Antoniu, Romania

Yaseen Arabi, Saudi Arabia

Kirit M. Ardeshna, UK

Antonio Ascione, Italy

Amit Assa, Israel

David J. Back, UK

Stephen C. Bain, UK

Piero Barbanti, Italy

Linda Barbour, USA

David Barnes, UK

Thomas R.E. Barnes, UK

David S.H. Bell, USA

James R. Berenson, USA

Claudia Bernardini, Switzerland

Stuart Berzins, Australia

Bianca Blanch, Australia

Christopher M. Bland, USA

Thomas Bleck, USA

Joseph M. Blondeau, Canada

Andrew Blumenfeld, USA

Lisa N. Boggio, USA

Aliccia Bollig-Fischer, USA

Stefano Bonini, Italy

Stefanos Bonovas, Italy

David Boyer, USA

Vivian Brache, Dominican Republic

Eva Brandl, Germany

Renier J. Brentjens, USA

Mitchell F. Brin, USA

Bruce Brockstein, USA

Gerald E. Bruder, USA

Thomas N. Bryce, USA

Matthew J. Budoff, USA

David M. Burger, the Netherlands

Maria Buti, Spain

Angela P. Cadavid, Colombia

Tommaso Cai, Italy

Natalie Callander, USA

Luigino Calzetta, Italy

Joao Cardoso, Portugal

Ingolf I. Cascorbi, Germany

Brooks D. Cash, USA

Giancarlo Castaman, Italy

Frederic Castinetti, France

Renato Caviglia, UK

Rakesh Chandra, USA

Himika Chawla, India

Andrea Chiricozzi, Italy

Aykut Cilli, Turkey

Kimberly Claeys, USA

Hance Clarke, Canada

Carlo Colosimo, Italy

Giancarlo Comi, Italy

Oscar Corli, Italy

Daniel W. Coyne, USA

Maria Luz Cuadrado, Spain

Jian-Guo Cui, USA

Jose Cunha-Vaz, Portugal

David Czock, Germany

Kim Davenport, UK

Marco Davila, USA

Nancy Dawson, USA

Ghassan Dbaibo, Lebanon

José Carlos de Lima-Júnior, Brazil

Adriaan de Wilde, the Netherlands

Michel Delforge, Belgium

Jean-Pierre Devogelaer, Belgium

Timothy Devos, Belgium

Jayesh Dhanani, Australia

Hans-Christoph Diener, Germany

George Dimitriadis, Greece

Yohei Doi, USA

Christian Domingo, Spain

Evangelia Dounousi, Greece

Diederick Duijvesz, the Netherlands

Ignacio Duran, Spain

Hans Christian Ebbers, the Netherlands

Olgun Elicin, Switzerland

Peter M. Ellis, Canada

Bassel El-Rayes, USA

Johan G. Eriksson, Finland

Michelle Fanale, USA

Ronnie Fass, USA

Csaba Fehér, Spain

Steven R. Feldman, USA

Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Italy

Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Italy

Simone Ferrero, Italy

Roy M. Fleischmann, USA

Regina Folster-Holst, Germany

Arlene Forastiere, USA

Anthony W. Fox, UK

Yara Dadalti Fragoso, Brazil

Samuel Frank, USA

Frederick G. Freitag, USA

Kenneth Friedman, USA

Joseph H. Friedman, USA

Jeremy Furyk, Australia

Giovanni Gabutti, Italy

Joshua Gagne, USA

Maximilian Gahr, Germany

Jason Gallagher, USA

Molly Gallogly, USA

Pere Gascon, Spain

Cristina Gasparetto, USA

Charly Gaul, Germany

Arthur F. Gelb, USA

Barry E. Gidal, USA

Ian Gilron, Canada

Sarah Glover, USA

Rob Glynne-Jones, UK

David S. Goldfarb, USA

Shinya Goto, Japan

Christos Argyrios Goudis, Greece

Dimitra Grapsa, Greece

James W. Grau, USA

Petros Grivas, USA

Gery Guy Jr, USA

Shotaro Hagiwara, Japan

Daisuke Hagiwara, Japan

Marion Harris, Australia

Thomas Hatschek, Sweden

Daniel B. Hawcutt, UK

Akos Heinemann, Austria

Johannes Hennings, Germany

Cedric C. Hermans, Belgium

Ramón C. Hermida, Spain

Reinhardt Hohlfeld, Germany

Sarah A. Holstein, USA

Karolyn Horn, USA

Chung-Tsen Hsueh, USA

Adam Huber, Canada

Tatsuo Ichinohe, Japan

Cristoforo Incorvaia, Italy

Patrick Ingiliz, Germany

Namiki Izumi, Japan

G. Jönsson, Sweden

Barbara Jarzab, Poland

Hendree Jones, USA

Kurian Joseph, Canada

Richard W. Joseph, USA

Stylianos Karatapanis, Greece

Siegfried Kasper, Austria

Vikram Kate, India

Carol A. Kauffman, USA

Christoph Kellinghaus, Germany

Sidney H. Kennedy, Canada

Munther A. Khamashta, UK

Sarah E. Kidd, Australia

Ole Kirk, Denmark

Robert Klamroth, Germany

Jan-Michael Klapproth, USA

Dimas A. Kliemann, Brazil

Thomas Klimkait, Switzerland

Roger Knaggs, UK

Stefan Knop, Germany

Harbir Singh Kohli, India

Jill Kolesar, USA

Katja Kollewe, Germany

Evi Kostenis, Germany

Marie Kostine, France

Peter Kreiner, USA

Michael Kreissl, Germany

Shaji K. Kumar, USA

Pekka Kurki, Finland

Joseph L. Kuti, USA

Leon C. Lack, Australia

Jean-Daniel Lalau, France

Matteo Lambertini, Italy

John J. Lauriello, USA

Hillard M. Lazarus, USA

Eun Bong Lee, Republic of Korea

Andrea Leonardi, Italy

Ethan A. Lerner, USA

Stefan Leucht, Germany

Ying Ying Leung, Singapore

Roger A. Levy, Brazil

Ed Li, USA

Michelle Liedtke, USA

Jean-Pierre Lindenmayer, USA

Michael Linnebank, Germany

Francesco Locatelli, Italy

Henk Lokhorst, the Netherlands

Erik T. Lontok, USA

Anthony Lopez, France

Jose Luis Lopez-Sendon, Spain

Ennio Lubrano, Italy

Naim Maalouf, USA

Fernando Magro, Portugal

Johnny Mahlangu, South Africa

Ehsan Malek, USA

Marcio C. Mancini, Brazil

Maria E. Mancuso, Italy

David M. Mannino, USA

Tomer M. Mark, USA

Maurie Markman, USA

Silvia Martinez Illamola, USA

Christophe Massard, France

Maria G. Matera, Italy

Mark A. McCamish, USA

Philip L. McCarthy, USA

Alexander McGirr, Canada

Fermin Mearin, Spain

Joseph Meletiadis, Greece

Til Menge, Germany

Mansoor Mirza, Denmark

Laurent Misery, France

Seiya Miyamoto, Japan

Pavel Mohr, Czech Republic

Fortunato Morabito, Italy

Massimo Morfini, Italy

Ann M. Mortimer, UK

Ulrich Mrowietz, Germany

David W. Mudge, Australia

Thomas Muller, Germany

Elisabetta Munzone, Italy

Laura Musazzi, Italy

Rudolph M. Navari, USA

Mark Nelson, UK

Ole Haagen Nielsen, Denmark

Jeremy M. Nightingale, UK

William Notcutt, UK

Michael T. Nurmohamed, the Netherlands

Thomas O’Brien, USA

Ian N. Olver, Australia

Eileen M. O’Reilly, USA

Pedro Orihuela, Chile

Albert Oriol, Spain

Nir Osherov, Israel

Francesca Palandri, Italy

Remo Panaccione, Canada

Nikolaos Papanas, Greece

Lorella Pasquinucci, Italy

Nimish Patel, USA

Francesco Patti, Italy

Girolamo Pelaia, Italy

Jose Perez-Castrillon, Spain

David S. Perlin, USA

Annalisa Perna, Italy

Marko Pesu, Finland

Marek Petras, Czech Republic

Stephen C. Pflugfelder, USA

Kevin J. Phillips, USA

Michael E. Pichichero, USA

Luigi A. Pini, Italy

Yih Jia Poh, Singapore

Garyphallia Poulakou, Greece

Luciano Quaranta, Italy

David I. Quinn, USA

Kaisar Raza, India

Danielle Reddi, UK

Kathryn Reid, USA

Catarina P. Reis, Portugal

Enrique Rey, Spain

Vincent Ribrag, France

Christophe Richez, France

Johannes Ring, Germany

Giovanni Ristori, Italy

Sally Roberts, New Zealand

Keith A. Rodvold, USA

Emmanuel Roilides, Greece

Andrea O. Rossetti, Switzerland

Maria Grazia, Rumi, Italy

Kapil Sahnan, UK

Maite Sainz de la Maza, Spain

Cristina Sampaio, Portugal

Samantha Sartori, USA

Michael J. Satlin, USA

Carmelo Scarpignato, Italy

André J.L. Scheen, Belgium

Fabrizio Schifano, UK

Lawrence R. Schiller, USA

Stéphane M. Schneider, France

David A. Schoenfeld, USA

Stephan A. Schug, Australia

Wilhelm W. Schulte-Mattler, Germany

Christina M. Scifres, USA

Douglas L. Seidner, USA

Thomas Seufferlein, Germany

Safi Shahda, USA

Robert Sidbury, USA

Oguz Resat Sipahi, Turkey

Adrian Smedowski, Poland

Maree T. Smith, Australia

Howard Sofen, USA

Claudio Solaro, Italy

Nicoletta N. Sonino, Italy

Maciej Sopata, Poland

Martin Soubrier, France

Laura Spring, USA

Alessandro Squizzato, Italy

Richard R. Stark, Australia

Christopher Stein, Germany

Janneke Stolwijk, the Netherlands

Robert F. Storey, UK

Kayla R. Stover, USA

Jacek C. Szepietowski, Poland

Thomas Tängdén, Sweden

Hiroaki Tanaka, Japan

Dick Tibboel, the Netherlands

Giuliano Tocci, Italy

Benjamin Tomlinson, USA

Gianluca Trifirò, Italy

Maria Trojano, Italy

Paul M. Tulkens, Belgium

Rita Turnaturi, Italy

Themistoklis Tzotzas, Greece

José Vázquez-Prado, Mexico

David van Duin, USA

Laura van Gerven, Belgium

Frank Verhoeven, France

Sarah Vreugde, Australia

Garry G.M. Walsh, UK

Guy Warman, New Zealand

Adilia Warris, UK

Gerald F. Watts, Australia

Niels Weinhold, USA

Gabrielle Welle-Strand, Norway

Eric Wenzler, USA

Karl Werdan, Germany

Christine M. Wilder, USA

Basem M. William, USA

Glyn Williams, UK

A. Peter R. Wilson, UK

James Stuart Wolffsohn, UK

Tin Wui Wong, Malaysia

Kara J. Wyant, USA

Takayuki Yoshino, Japan

Man-Fung Yuen, Hong Kong

Gaetano Zaccara, Italy

Rochelle S. Zak, USA

Rafael Zaragoza, Spain

Kirsten Zeuner, Germany

Fengmin Zhao, USA

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. We take this opportunity to sincerely thank retiring Editorial Board member Professor Mark Stacy.

I hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in Drugs to be interesting and informative. The editorial schedule for 2018 is well under way, and the Section Editors and I are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.

With best wishes

Dene C. Peters

Editor, Drugs