Dear Reader,

As we approach the end of 2016, and publish our final issue of PharmacoEconomics for the year, we wish to reflect on another successful year for the journal and for others in the Adis Premier journals portfolio, and to thank all who have contributed to PharmacoEconomics over the past 12 months.

Mid-2016 saw the release of the ISI Journal Citation Reports and the latest journal impact factors. PharmacoEconomics rose to 2.57. The majority of our other journals saw a rise in impact factor against the previous year. Most notably, five of our journals saw an increase of over 10% in impact factor—The Patient (17.08%), Clinical Drug Investigation (15.99%), the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology (13.17% increase), Drug Safety (13.52%), and Drugs (12.43%).

Another important milestone was reached for our recently launched open access journals, Drug Safety—Case Reports and Drugs—Real World Outcomes. Content from these journals is now available on PubMed Central.

The Adis journals portfolio will expand in 2017, with the launch of our sister journal PharmacoEconomics—Open. This new journal will be fully open access and will focus on the publication of applied research on the economic implications and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions. It joins our other well respected health outcomes publications Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, and The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.

We offer our sincere thanks to all authors who have contributed articles to PharmacoEconomics over the course of 2016. Their skill and dedication are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The quality of published articles is, similarly, 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 our Honorary Editorial Board and the following individuals who acted as reviewers in the last 12 months:

Tony Ades, UK

Colin R. Angus, UK

Rodrigo Antonini Ribeiro, Brazil

Miqdad Asaria, UK

Arthur E. Attema, the Netherlands

Andrew Azman, USA

Eduard J. Beck, Switzerland

Johannes Berkhof, the Netherlands

Marcel Bilger, Singapore

Christine Blome, Germany

Johannes Bogaards, the Netherlands

Judith E. Bosmans, the Netherlands

Michael Broder, USA

James Buchanan, UK

Thomas Butt, UK

Michele Cecchini, France

James D. Chambers, USA

Hubert Chen, USA

Yingyao Chen, China

Mark Connolly, the Netherlands

David Coultas, USA

Simon Coulton, UK

Karin S. Coyne, USA

William H. Crown, USA

Helen A. Dakin, UK

Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Australia

Gerard de Pouvourville, France

Vakaramoko Diaby, USA

Francois Dionne, Canada

Joseph P. Drozda, USA

Alejandra Duenas, France

Laura Dunlap, USA

Brigitte A. Essers, the Netherlands

Stig Evensen, Norway

Steven R. Feldman, USA

Katharina E. Fischer, Germany

Alastair Fischer, UK

Gerardus W.J. Frederix, the Netherlands

Emma Frew, UK

Simon Frey, Germany

Livio Garattini, Italy

Salah Ghabri, France

Brian G. Godman, Sweden

Juan Marcos Gonzalez, USA

Steve Goodacre, UK

Stephen Goodall, Australia

Elizabeth Goodwin, UK

Colin Green, UK

Dan Greenberg, Israel

Eleanor Grieve, UK

Ulla K. Griffiths, UK

Scott D. Grosse, USA

Janneke P.C. Grutters, the Netherlands

Aditya K. Gupta, Canada

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Denmark

Hossein Haji Ali Afzali, Australia

Paul Hanly, Ireland

Anthony H. Harris, Australia

Anthony J. Hatswell, UK

Sebastian Heidenreich, UK

Fred J. Hellinger, USA

Mickaël Hiligsmann, the Netherlands

Sebastian Hinde, UK

Anke Holtorf, Switzerland

Jennifer Houltram, Australia

Kirsten Howard, Australia

Martin Hoyle, UK

Elisabeth Huynh, Australia

Michael Iskedjian, Canada

Christopher Jackson, UK

Huajie Jin, UK

Anika Kaczynski, Germany

Jahangir A. Khan, UK

Iftekhar Khan, UK

Reinhold Kilian, Germany

Derek King, UK

Florian Kirsch, Germany

Saskia Knies, the Netherlands

Alexander Konnopka, Germany

Antoine J. Lafuma, France

Allen Lai, Singapore

Mark Lamotte, Belgium

Annemieke Leunis, the Netherlands

Pierre L. Levy, France

Qiu Li, China

Nicola L. Liberato, Italy

Carole Longson, UK

Paula K. Lorgelly, UK

J. Jason Lundy, USA

Nan Luo, Singapore

Alan Lyles, USA

Jason Madan, UK

Peter Makai, the Netherlands

Louis S. Matza, USA

Josephine A. Mauskopf, USA

Ifigeneia Mavranezouli, UK

Christopher J. McCabe, Canada

Nikki McCaffrey, Australia

Laura McCullagh, Ireland

Phil Mcewan, UK

Neil McHugh, UK

Stephen P. McKenna, UK

Martin I. Meltzer, USA

Francesco S. Mennini, Italy

Catherine Mihalopoulos, Australia

Marj Moodie, Australia

David Moreno-Ramirez, Spain

Duncan Mortimer, Australia

Brendan Mulhern, Australia

Noemi Muszbek, Hungary

Anthony T. Newall, Australia

Mattias Neyt, Belgium

Erik Nord, Norway

Richard Norman, Australia

Charles Normand, Ireland

Juan Oliva-Moreno, Spain

Yemi Oluboyede, UK

James F. O’Mahony, Ireland

Mark Oppe, the Netherlands

Pablo Orellano, Argentina

Mark Oremus, Canada

Brian O’Rourke, Canada

Mark Parker, UK

Nalin Payakachat, USA

Brita A. Pekarsky, Australia

Unchalee Permsuwan, Thailand

Lionel Perrier, France

Charles E. Phelps, USA

A. Simon Pickard, USA

Mark Pletscher, Switzerland

Catrin Plumpton, UK

Douwe Postmus, the Netherlands

Véronique Raimond, France

Kim Rand-Hendriksen, Norway

Umberto Restelli, Italy

Jeff Richardson, Australia

Oliver Rivero-Arias, UK

Maria Rubio-Valera, Spain

Carolyn Rutter, USA

Gurdeep S. Sagoo, UK

Abdur Sarker, Bangladesh

Jordana K. Schmier, USA

Kathy L. Schulman, USA

Till Seuring, UK

Koonal K. Shah, UK

Behnam Sharif, Canada

James Signorovitch, USA

Jonathan Silcock, UK

Kit N. Simpson, USA

Hazel Squires, UK

Richard G. Stefanacci, USA

Lotte Steuten, USA

Matt Stevenson, UK

Andrew Stoddart, UK

Derek H. Tang, USA

Shinichi Tanihara, Japan

Paul Tappenden, UK

Paulos Teckle, Canada

Alexander Thompson, UK

Joanna Thorn, UK

Dominic Thorrington, UK

J. Mick Tilford, USA

Jonathan Tosh, UK

James Trussell, USA

Sandra L. Tunis, USA

Bernhard Ultsch, Germany

Wendy J. Ungar, Canada

Wilbert B. van den Hout, the Netherlands

Pepijn Vemer, the Netherlands

Sabine Vogler, Austria

Simon Walker, UK

Penny Watson, UK

Jennifer A. Whitty, UK

Ronald C. Wielage, USA

Edward C.F. Wilson, UK

Torbjørn Wisløff, Norway

Walter P. Wodchis, Canada

James G. Wood, Australia

Davene R. Wright, USA

Feng Xie, Canada

Jing Xu, USA

Daisuke Yabe, Japan

Hongbo Yang, USA

Tracey A. Young, UK

We hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2016 to be both interesting and informative. We have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year and we look forward to 2017.

With best wishes from Chris Carswell and Tim Wrightson