Dear Reader,

As we reach the end of the second year of publication for PharmacoEconomics - Open, we wish to reflect on another successful year, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the high quality of our content.

At the beginning of the year, PharmacoEconomics - Open was included in PubMed, and the journal has recently published its 100th article. These two milestones are indicative of the continued success of the new journal.

We thank the authors who have contributed articles to PharmacoEconomics - Open over the course of 2018. 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 PharmacoEconomics - Open in the last 12 months:


Zanfina Ademi Delaney, Australia

Mariam Aguas, Spain

Vassilis Aletras, Greece

Xavier Armoiry, UK

Renee Arnold, USA

Nick Bansback, Canada

Marc Carreras, Spain

Irina Cleemput, Belgium

Paul Crosland, Australia

Barbara de Graaff, Australia

Alex Diamantopoulos, UK

Piyameth Dilokthornsakul, Thailand

Padraig Dixon, UK

John Doyle, USA

Irene Eriksson, Sweden

Brigitte Essers, the Netherlands

Afschin Gandjour, Germany

Susan Garfield, USA

Thomas Gift, USA

Ari Gnanasakthy, USA

Brian Godman, Sweden

Gisela González, Argentina

Mandy Gutknecht, Germany

Gillian Hall, UK

Anke Holtorf, Switzerland

Dongzhe Hong, USA

Jason Hsu, USA

Shanlian Hu, China

Brittany Humphries, Canada

Rachael Hunter, UK

Anuraag Kansal, USA

Hye-Young Kwon, Republic of Korea

Joseph Kwon, UK

Maureen Lage, USA

Dawn Lee, UK

Kun-Yun Lee, Malaysia

Chulaporn Limwattananon, Thailand

Andrew Lloyd, UK

Kathleen Manipis, Australia

Helen Mason, UK

Stephen McKenna, UK

Stuart Mealing, UK

Gregory Merlo, Australia

Liz Morrell, UK

Alec Morton, UK

David Mott, UK

Mome Mukherjee, UK

Chidubem Ogwulu, UK

Ciaran O’Neill, UK

Hasan Özyapıcı, Turkey

Anita Patel, UK

Mark Pennington, UK

Jaume Puig-Junoy, Spain

Fanni Rencz, Hungary

Jeff Richardson, Australia

Carlos Rodriguez-Martinez, Colombia

Daniela Roggeri, Italy

Marisa Santos, Brazil

Karinna Saxby, Australia

James Shearer, UK

Lizheng Shi, USA

Everton Silva, Brazil

Chris Skedgel, UK

Indeg Sly, UK

Marta Soares, UK

Elly Stolk, The Netherlands

Wim van Harten, The Netherlands

Simon Walker, UK

Claire Williams, UK

Jing Wu, China

Aaron Yarlas, USA

Xueting Yu, 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:


Zaheer Babar, UK

James Buchanan, UK

James Chambers, USA

Vakaramoko Diaby, USA

George Dranitsaris, Canada

Stephanie Earnshaw, USA

Flávia Elias, Brazil

Gerardus Frederix, The Netherlands

Emma Frew, UK

Brian Godman, Sweden

Paul Hanly, Ireland

Anthony Hatswell, UK

Elisabeth Huynh, Australia

Noam Kirson, USA

Patrick Lefebvre, Canada

Luís Lizán, Spain

Nicola McCaffrey, Australia

R. Brett McQueen, USA

Richard Norman, Australia

Alison Pearce, Australia

Paolo Pertile, Italy

Pedro Plans-Rubió, Spain

Shankar Prinja, India

Jeffrey Round, Canada

Christopher Sampson, UK

Asrul Shafie, Malaysia

Jonathan Tosh, UK

Haitham Tuffaha, Australia

Pepijn Vemer, The Netherlands

Sabine Vogler, Austria

Beth Woods, UK

Feng Xie, Canada


We do hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in PharmacoEconomics - Open to be interesting and informative. The editorial schedule for 2019 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

Timothy Wrightson and Christopher Carswell

Co-Editors in Chief