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As we reach the final issue of Drugs in R&D for 2013, we hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year to be interesting and informative. Drugs in R&D is the only fully open access journal published by Adis, and the editor and publishing staff have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year. The publishing schedule for 2014 is well under way, and we are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.
The Adis journals portfolio as a whole saw impressive Impact Factor gains, with flagship journals continuing to increase their citations—Drugs raised its Impact Factor to 4.633, with Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Sports Medicine also seeing significant rises to 6.109 and 5.237, respectively. Pharmacoeconomics remains the number one journal in its field, and The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research saw an increase of more than 170 % in its Impact Factor to 1.565, only one year after first appearing in the Journal Citation Reports®.
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David F. Archer, USA
Shahram Bahmanyar, Sweden
Emad B. Basalious, Egypt
Antonio Bellasi, Italy
Fulvio Bertolotto, Italy
G.A. Block, USA
Samuel W. Boellner, USA
Ann Catherine Childress, USA
Arrigo F.G. Cicero, Italy
Daniel F. Connor, USA
Laszlo Endrenyi, Canada
Oscar Fernandez, Spain
D. Gatti, USA
C. Giannarelli, Italy
David J. Greenblatt, USA
Manuel Haschke, Switzerland
John Haughney, UK
D. Heng, Singapore
A. Hill, New Zealand
L. Holmvang, Denmark
Katsuomi Iwakura, Japan
Svein I. Johannessen, Norway
N.J. Kachuck, USA
A. Kahokehr, New Zealand
Asim Kalkan, Turkey
James Ker, South Africa
M. Liedtke, USA
S. Mallaysamy, India
M. Martins, Brazil
Doreen Matsui, Canada
Andrew J. McLachlan, Australia
D. Miller, USA
F. Morabito, Italy
Isamu Okamoto, Japan
J.S. Oxford, UK
Deborah Pearson, USA
A. Pottegaard, Denmark
M. Ranieri, Italy
Francois Roubille, France
S.M. Said, Germany
K. Sampathkumar, India
C. Schultz, USA
R. Schulz, Germany
Carlos Sostres, Spain
M. Symillides, Greece
Takeshi Takami, Japan
Laura E. Targownik, Canada
Ulrich U. Tebbe, Germany
D. Torok, Hungary
Dietmar Trenk, Germany
Tsukasa Uno, Japan
T. VanCaillie, Australia
Roger K. Verbeeck, Belgium
Carolyn Westhoff, USA
Mario Wurglics, Germany
Recep Yildizhan, Turkey
Mohammad Urooj Zafar, USA
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van Rensburg, A. Acknowledgement to Referees. Drugs R D 13, 241–242 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40268-013-0033-5
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