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Dear Reader,
Welcome to the final issue of Drugs & Aging for 2022.
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.
So far in 2022, over 70 articles have been published. The most popular of these in terms of downloads from SpringerLink have been:
Fietze I, Bassetti CLA, Mayleben DW et al. Efficacy and safety of daridorexant in older and younger adults with insomnia disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Drugs Aging 2022;39:795–810.
Herrstedt J, Lindberg S, Petersen PC Prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in the older patient: optimizing outcomes. Drugs Aging 2022;39:1–21.
Tumati S, Lanctôt KL, Wang R et al. Medical cannabis use among older adults in canada: self-reported data on types and amount used, and perceived effects. Drugs Aging 2022;39:153–163.
Virnes RE, Tiihonen M, Karttunen N et al. Opioids and falls risk in older adults: a narrative review. Drugs Aging 2022;39:199–207.
Prange S, Klinger H, Laurencin C et al. Depression in patients with parkinson’s disease: current understanding of its neurobiology and implications for treatment. Drugs Aging 2022;39:417–439.
Randles MA, O’Mahony D, Gallagher PF Frailty and Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People with Polypharmacy: A Bi-Directional Relationship. Drugs Aging 2022;39:597–606.
The high quality of content published in Drugs & Aging is reflected in the most recent Impact Factor of 4.271 and CiteScore™ of 6.7, placing the journal in the second quartile of the Geriatrics & Gerontology category for IF and the first quartile for CiteScore.
Together with the journal’s Section Editors, I would like to start by thanking the authors of the articles published in Drugs & Aging over the course of 2022. 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 quality of published articles is also testament to the diligence of the peer reviewers. I would like to acknowledge the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Drugs & Aging in the last 12 months:
Dag Aarsland, UK
Mahmoud Abdellatif, Austria
Wilco Achterberg, The Netherlands
Nagham Ailabouni, New Zealand
Jennifer Albrecht, USA
Márlon J.R. Aliberti, Brazil
Winfried M. Amoaku, UK
Melissa K. Andrew, Canada
Angelo Antonini, Italy
Apostolos Apostolidis, Greece
Albert Ariza-Solé, Spain
Carole E. Aubert, Switzerland
Lodovico Balducci, USA
Megan Banks, Australia
Joshua I. Barzilay, USA
Maria Basta, Greece
Vincenzo Belcastro, Italy
Kaustuv Bhattacharya, USA
Jacqueline Birks, UK
Jane G. Boggs, USA
Tove Bokrantz, Sweden
Susan K. Bowles, Canada
Lyudmila Boyanova, Bulgaria
Marie C. Bradley, UK
Penny L. Brennan, USA
Henry Brodaty, Australia
Alison C. Burggren, USA
Vincent Cabibel, France
Guy Cammu, Belgium
Ryan M. Carnahan, USA
Alejandro Castro-Rodriguez, Colombia
Satabdi Chatterjee, USA
Altuğ Çinçin, Turkey
Asli T. Cincin, Turkey
Collin M. Clark, USA
Nicolas Collongues, France
Denis Curtin, Ireland
Vincent Dagenais-Beaule, Canada
Satya Das, USA
H. Edward Davidson, USA
Cesare de Gregorio, Italy
Esther de Haas, The Netherlands
Jude des Bordes, USA
Vito Di Lernia, Italy
Sean Dickson, USA
Joseph Dillon, USA
Sabine Drevet, France
Catherine Dube, USA
Margaret Dunham, UK
Mai H. Duong, Australia
Nana Entsuah, USA
Tesfahun Eshetie, Australia
Perrine Evrard, Belgium
Mercé Falip, Spain
Evandro F. Fang, Norway
Adam Faye, USA
Eva Fenwick, Singapore
Aoife M. Fleming, Ireland
Ana Fortuna, Portugal
Susan H. Fox, Canada
Raquel Freitas, Portugal
Samuel Gandy, USA
Pietro Gareri, Italy
Allan Gelber, USA
Lauren Gerlach, USA
Julia Gilmartin-Thomas, Australia
Javier P. Gisbert, Spain
Javier González-Bueno, Spain
Anastazja Gorecki, Australia
Lisa J. Gould, USA
Parag Goyal, USA
Shelly L. Gray, USA
Andrzej Grzybowski, Poland
Luigina Guasti, Italy
Rahul Gupta, USA
Kjell H. Halvorsen, Norway
Klejda Harasani, Albania
Shingo Hatakeyama, Japan
Kaley Hayes, USA
Nathan Herrmann, Canada
Martha Hickey, Australia
James Hodges, USA
Robert Hoerr, Germany
Jean Hoffman-Censits, USA
David B. Hogan, Canada
Chi-Ting Horng, Taiwan, Republic of China
Robert Howard, UK
Carmel M. Hughes, UK
Rehan M. Hussain, USA
Tatsunori Ikemoto, Japan
Arun C. Inamadar, India
Raffaele A. Incalzi, Italy
Ahmet T. Isik, Turkey
Emad R. Issak, Egypt
Sadao Jinno, Japan
Sun-Young Jung, Republic of Korea
Helen C. Kales, USA
Seymour Katz, USA
Julius L. Katzmann, Germany
Hege Kersten, Norway
Elizabeth Kessler, USA
Jennifer Kim, USA
Susan Kornstein, USA
Edeltraut Kröger, Canada
Richard Kryscio, USA
Manish Kumar, USA
Yong-Fang Kuo, USA
Siyana Kurteva, Canada
Carmelo Lafuente-Lafuente, France
Edward Chia-Cheng Lai, Taiwan, Republic of China
Wing-Fu Lai, China
Eric A. Larson, USA
Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Israel
Iliana C. Lega, Canada
Tuuli E. Lehti, Finland
Max Lenz, Austria
Solomon S. Liao, USA
Worawit Louthrenoo, Thailand
Giancarlo Lucchetti, Brazil
Hendrika Luijendijk, The Netherlands
Brian C. Lund, USA
Christofer Lundqvist, Norway
Meira M.F. Machado, Canada
Louise Mallet, Canada
Rohit Marawar, USA
Manuel Martín-Carrasco, Spain
Tommaso Martino, Italy
Maiju K. Marttinen, Finland
Donovan T. Maust, USA
Colleen J. Maxwell, Canada
Emily McDonald, Canada
Matteo Megna, Italy
Sebastiano Mercadante, Italy
Marco Metra, Italy
Jane Metrik, USA
Laurent Misery, France
Krissy Moehling Geffel, USA
Daniela Moga, USA
Masaki Mogi, Japan
Pasquale Mone, Italy
Timothy I. Morgenthaler, USA
Frank Moriarty, Ireland
Maria L. Muiesan, Italy
Robert F. Mullins, USA
Vasi Naganathan, Australia
Surakit Nathisuwan, Thailand
Jens O. Nielsen, Denmark
John T. O'Brien, UK
Fabiola Ojeda, Spain
Ambrogio Orlando, Italy
Eric Ouattara, France
Jaideep J. Pandit, UK
Carole Parsons, UK
Luca Pasina, Italy
Peter Passmore, Ireland
Bhavana Patel, USA
Dimitrios Patoulias, Greece
Brian J. Piper, USA
Jaime Piquero-Casals, Spain
Elisabetta Poluzzi, Italy
Kevin Pritchard, USA
Marco Proietti, Italy
Anne Purcell, Australia
Lalitha Raman-Wilms, Canada
Anette H. Ranhoff, Norway
Olivier Rascol, France
Mia Ravn Jacobsen, Denmark
Emily Reeve, Australia
Dieter Reinel, Germany
Christel Renoux, Canada
Giancarlo Ripabelli, Italy
Dudley Robinson, UK
Hanna-Maria Roitto, Finland
Fatima Roque, Portugal
Matthew V. Rudorfer, USA
Surachai Sae-Jung, Thailand
Mohammed S. Salahudeen, Australia
G. Blair Sarbacker, USA
Pedro Sarmento, Portugal
Matthew Schrag, USA
Camille Schwab, France
Karla Seaman, Australia
Alison K. Shea, Canada
Kyla Shea, USA
Linda Simoni-Wastila, USA
Sandeep K. Singh, India
Stephen F. Smagula, USA
Noah Smith, USA
Akihiro Sonoda, Japan
Sydney P. Springer, USA
Jennifer Stevenson, UK
Robert Stewart, UK
Jorund Straand, Norway
Sven Streit, Switzerland
Divya Suares, India
Omar Sued, USA
Dawid Szwedowski, Italy
Satoshi Takanashi, Japan
Rajesh Tampi, USA
Maw Pin Tan, Malaysia
Christine B. Teng, Singapore
Karthik Tennankore, Canada
Rachel E. Thayer, USA
Janani Thillainadesan, Australia
Wade Thompson, Denmark
Petra A. Thurmann, Germany
Miia Tiihonen, Finland
Areti Triantafyllou, Greece
Jacob J.M. Van Laar, The Netherlands
Daan J.L. van Twist, The Netherlands
Robert Vander Stichele, Belgium
Carlos D. Varela-Chinchilla, USA
Giustino Varrassi, Italy
Stefano Veraldi, Italy
Etty Vider, USA
Claire Villeneuve, France
Tracey C. Vlahovic, Afghanistan
Adrian Wagg, Canada
Tiantian Wang, China
Martin Wehling, Germany
Gerald Westheimer, USA
Craig D. Williams, USA
Robyn L. Woods, Australia
Zhenqiang Wu, New Zealand
Shuman Yang, China
Yi Yang, USA
Tauheed Zaman, USA
Maria Zazzara, Italy
Michel Zeitouni, France
Zhen Zhou, Australia
Genyong Zuo, China
And, of course, I am also very grateful to 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:
Rajendar R. Aparasu, USA
Wilbert S. Aronow, USA
Gülistan Bahat, Turkey
Robert L. Barkin, USA
Joël Belmin, France
Nicole Brandt, USA
Barry J. Cusack, USA
Alan B. Fleischer Jr, USA
Gary A. Ford, England
Walter Fries, Italy
David J. Greenblatt, USA
Joseph T. Hanlon, USA
Sarah N. Hilmer, Australia
Holly M. Holmes, USA
Allen R. Huang, Canada
Kristina Johnell, Sweden
Ryuzo Kawamori, Japan
Stephen R. Kraus, USA
Francesco Locatelli, Italy
Maria A. Lopez-Olivo, USA
Maria Gabriella Matera, Italy
Benjamin L. Maughan, USA
Diane E. Meier, USA
Silvio Monfardini, Italy
Arshag D. Mooradian, USA
Denis O'Mahony, Ireland
Mirko Petrovic, Belgium
Jean-Yves Reginster, Belgium
Paula Rochon, Canada
Barbara J. Sahakian, England
Nicola Scichilone, Italy
Ralf Stahlmann, Germany
Cameron G. Swift, England
Sasha Taleban, USA
Marc E. Weksler, USA
Torgeir Bruun Wyller, Norway
The editorial schedule for 2023 is well under way, and I am looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles in the field of geriatric pharmacotherapy over the coming year.
I thank you for your continued support.
With best wishes,
Caroline Herdson
Editor, Drugs & Aging
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Acknowledgement to Referees. Drugs Aging 39, 911–914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40266-022-00988-1
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