At the end of this year, I wish to express my sincere gratitude, also on behalf of the other editors, the members of the editorial board and the publisher of the European Journal of Epidemiology, to the referees of the articles considered for the 2018 volume of EJE. It is no mean feat that hundreds of busy colleagues spend their time in assessing the more than 1100 manuscripts submitted each year to our Journal, in selecting the ones that may possibly be published, and in improving the quality of the selected articles. Many of the reviewers have helped us in the past years as well, and we are tremendously appreciative and grateful to them [1, 2]. It is largely thanks to them that EJE is doing well in attracting and publishing valuable contributions on epidemiologic research findings and epidemiologic methods.
Some time ago we have started to publish invited essays on topics of interest to epidemiologists and epidemiology [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31]. I would like to extend an invitation to our readers to submit essays, also without the prompting of an invite. Essays may cover general conceptual and methodologic issues [3, 12, 17, 23, 30, 31] or statistical and data-analytic topics [4, 5, 13, 22]. They may address current concerns [6, 8, 15, 16, 26, 29] or give historical perspectives [14, 19, 25]. The essays may also focus on topical issues in substantive epidemiology [7, 10, 11, 20, 21, 28] or voice societal concerns [7, 26]. We intend to leave the format of these pieces quite open and we hope to receive many creative and forceful contributions, from inside or out of the epidemiology box.
Adeline Abbe
Anders Ahlbom
Krasimira Aleksandrova
Silvia Alemany
André Amaral
Sarah Assaad
Anssi Auvinen
Mario Bauer
Sara Benitez Majano
Klaus Berger
Maarten Jacob Bijlsma
Paolo Boffetta
Carl Bonander
Hermann Brenner
Christian Brettschneider
Bert Brunekreef
Amanda Buttery
Ellen Caniglia
Lourdes Cantarero Arevalo
Pilar Carrasco-Garrido
Chen-Hsin Chen
Lori Chibnik
Tim Clayton
Ramon Cleries
Pierluigi Cocco
Helen Coleman
Anne Marie Colijn
Sirwan Darweesh
Adrian Davis
Inge de Kok
Emmely de Roos
Olaf Dekkers
Cecile Delcourt
Klodian Dhana
Mirko Di Martino
James Doidge
Helen Dolk
Mariola Drozd
Gustaf Edgren
Louise Emilsson
Simone Eussen
Esteve Fernandez
Bruno Ferreyro
Valentina Gallo
Xin Gao
Lu Gao
Gian Marco Ghiggeri
Marija Glisic
Stéphanie Goujon
Rebecca Graff
Sander Greenland
Rolf Groenwold
Nina Grootendorst
Pascal Guénel
Mats Hallgren
Gaël Paul Hammer
Richard Harbron
Jane Harding
Bernhard Haring
Emily Harrison
Saima Hilal
Albert Hofman
Martin Holzmann
Chung-Cheng Hsieh
José María Huerta
Arfan Ikram
Kamran Ikram
Carmen Jochem
Karl-Heinz Joeckel
Asa Johansson
Igor Karp
Maarit Kauppi
Maryam Kavousi
Nicole Kellow
Michelle Kelly-Irving
Nikhil Khankari
Brenda Kieboom
Marjolein Kooijman
Lewis Kuller
Oliver Kuß
Jeremy Labrecque
Nasser Laouali
Antti Latvala
Jack Leiss
Catherine Lesko
Silvan Licher
Longjian Liu
Magnus Løberg
Annemarie Luik
Angela Lupattelli
Yuan Ma
Ivana Malenica
Mohammad Ali Mansournia
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
Richard McNally
Esther Molina
Scott Montgomery
Sabine Mous
Ryan Muetzel
Taulant Muka
Ellie Murray
Ashley Isaac Naimi
Tobias Niedermaier
Luke O’Connor
Jørn Olsen
Clive Osmond
Nicolas Pallet
Stefania Papatheodorou
Raphael Simon Peter
Andrea Piccinin
Elena Raffetti
Parminder Raina
Grégoire Rey
Jessica Rohmann
Matteo Rota
Susana Santos
Danja Sarink
Mary Schooling
Stephane Schuck
Matthias Schulze
Alexander Schuster
Lukas Schwingshackl
Sylvain Sebert
Ingmar Skoog
Andreas Stang
Denes Stefler
Henrik Stovring
Bruno Stricker
Tores Theorell
Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen
Antje Timmer
Ali Tiss
Esther Toes-Zoutendijk
Sergi Trias-Llimós
Pietro Trocchi
Konstantinos Tsilidis
Agnes van der Heide
André Verbeek
Sanne Verhoog
Ellis Voerman
Judith Vonk
Trudy Voortman
Heather Ward
Charlotte Warren-Gash
Yukari Watanabe
Reem Waziry
Erich Wichmann
Frank Wolters
James Yarmolinsky
Weimin Ye
Anna Zettergren
Qingying Zhang
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Hofman, A. A note of thanks and an invitation. Eur J Epidemiol 33, 1131–1133 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0464-y
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