Dear Reader,

As we reach the final issue of Clinical Pharmacokinetics for 2018, we wish to reflect on another successful year’s achievements, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the high quality of our content.


2018 was a successful year for Clinical Pharmacokinetics. Over 100 articles have been published; the most popular of these, in terms of downloads from SpringerLink, have been:

Social media sharing of information is becoming more important and is another metric with which to measure the reach of articles. This year the following articles published in Clinical Pharmacokinetics scored highly on the Altmetric system:

The quality of articles published in the journal is also reflected in its most recent impact factor (4.464). Clinical Pharmacokinetics is currently ranked 29th in the ‘Pharmacology and Pharmacy’ category (of 261 journals).


Other journals in the Adis Premier Journals Portfolio (http://www.springer.com/gp/adis) continue to prosper with substantial increases in usage year on year. In addition, this year has seen Applied Health Economics and Health Policy receive its first impact factor.


We thank the authors who have contributed articles to Clinical Pharmacokinetics 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 Clinical Pharmacokinetics in the last 12 months:

Nurul Azrin Abd Rahman, Australia

Khaled Abduljalil, UK

Marine L. Andersson, Sweden

Upendra A. Argikar, USA

Ashraf Z. Badros, USA

Kyun-Seop Bae, Republic of Korea

Pedro Baptista, Portugal

April M. Barbour, USA

Imke H. Bartelink, USA

Hanneke Berkhout, The Netherlands

Brookie Best, USA

Elena Bignami, Italy

Alan V. Boddy, Australia

Claudio Borghi, Italy

Olof Breuer, Sweden

Thierry Buclin, Switzerland

Giuseppe Buonocore, Italy

Gilbert J. Burckart, USA

David M. Burger, The Netherlands

Lisa Burry, Canada

Elisa A. M. Calvier, The Netherlands

Dario Cattaneo, Italy

Matthew A. Cerny, USA

Himika Chawla, India

Shang-Chiung Chen, USA

Manoranjenni Chetty, UK

Mikkel Christensen, Denmark

Hu Chuanpu, USA

Yumi Cleary, Switzerland

Piergiorgio Cojutti, Italy

Angela Colbers, The Netherlands

Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, France

Kingsley P. Coulthard, Australia

Colleen M. Craig, USA

Lissandra D. Lago, Belgium

André Dallmann, Switzerland

Pieter A. J. G. De Cock, Belgium

Amparo de la Peña, USA

Elizabeth C. M. de Lange, The Netherlands

Florian Deisenhammer, Austria

Rong Deng, USA

Antonello Di Paolo, Italy

Lei Diao, USA

Jeroen Diepstraten, The Netherlands

Michael Dolton, Australia

Thomas Dorlo, The Netherlands

Erwin Dreesen, Belgium

Julie Brumer, Dumond, USA

Thomas Eissing, Germany

Laure Elens, Belgium

Douglas J. Eleveld, The Netherlands

Jeffrey Fisher, USA

William Fissell, USA

Kevin J. Freise, USA

Martin F. Fromm, Germany

Adam Frymoyer, USA

Uwe Fuhr, Germany

Yutaka Fujiwara, Japan

Masahide Fukudo, Japan

Genevieve M. Gabb, Australia

Tushar Garimella, USA

Eva Germovsek, Sweden

Gavin Giovannoni, UK

Daniel Gonzalez, USA

Mathangi Gopalakrishnan, USA

Harry J. M. Groen, The Netherlands

Henk-Jan Guchelaar, The Netherlands

Neeraj Gupta, USA

Howard Gurney, Australia

Mao Hagihara, Japan

Maarja Hallik, Estonia

Manuel Haschke, Switzerland

Tim Heise, Germany

Stefanie Hennig, Australia

Dennis A. Hesselink, The Netherlands

Jennifer Hibma, USA

Akihiro Hisaka, Japan

Zhe-Yi Hu, USA

Alwin D. R. Huitema, The Netherlands

William Griffith Humphreys, USA

Dymphy Huntjens, Belgium

Margarita Inavova, USA

Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Sweden

Evelyne Jacqz Aigrain, France

Zheng Jiao, China

Tobias Kanacher, Germany

Jatinder Katyal, India

Michael B. Kays, USA

Ron Keizer, Sweden

Frieder Keller, Germany

Jennifer J. Kiser, USA

Gilbert Koch, Switzerland

Hannu Kokki, Finland

Jill Kolesar, USA

Elke H. J. Krekels, The Netherlands

Tai Ning Lam, Hong Kong

José M. Lanao, Spain

Cecile J. Landmark, Norway

Chooi Yeng Lee, Malaysia

Florian Lemaitre, France

Francis Levi, UK

Nuria Lloberas, Spain

Ngu Lock-Hock, Malaysia

Janel Long-Boyle, USA

Michael Lyons, USA

Donald E. Mager, USA

Iftekhar Mahmood, USA

Pierre Marquet, France

Amélie Marsot, Canada

Dai Maruyama, Japan

Jeannine McCune, USA

Raja Mehanna, USA

Rajeev Menon, USA

Rajendar Mittapalli, USA

Dirk J. A. R. Moes, The Netherlands

Loqman A. Mohamed, USA

Miriam Mooij, The Netherlands

Ganesh S. Moorthy, USA

R. Morgan, USA

Juraj Morky, Slovakia

Johan Mouton, The Netherlands

Hussain Mulla, UK

Ahmed Nader, Qatar

Kimberly L. Nealy, USA

Michael N. Neely, USA

Mitsuaki Nishikimi, Japan

Thomas D. Nolin, USA

William Oetting, USA

Pedro Oliveira, Portugal

Ahmed A. Othman, USA

Manjunath P. Pai, USA

Konstantinos Papamichail, USA

Ankit K. Y. Parikh, Australia

Jotam Pasipanodya, USA

Francesco Patti, Italy

Michael Paulzen, Germany

Charles A. Peloquin, USA

Vidya Perera, USA

Antoine Petitcollin, France

Akshanth R. Polepally, USA

Rana Rais, USA

Gopala K. Rangan, Australia

Jahidur Rashid, USA

Mark J. Ratain, USA

Margareta Reis, Sweden

Giuseppe Remuzzi, Italy

Marc Rendell, USA

Lutz Renders, Germany

Jason A. Roberts, Australia

Xavier Roblin, France

Marco Rocchi, Italy

Claire Roger, France

Antonio Roman, Spain

Ana Ruiz-Garcia, USA

Rovina Ruslami, Indonesia

Mark Samaan, UK

Kimberly K. Scarsi, USA

André J. L. Scheen, Belgium

Antonin Schmitt, France

Georgios Schoretsanitis, Switzerland

Gianluca Sferrazza, Italy

Anita Shah, USA

Joanne Louise Sharp, UK

Mohamad Shebley, USA

Hong Shen, USA

Qiang Shi, USA

Marco Siccardi, UK

Fekade Sime, Australia

Mahipal Sinnollareddy, Australia

Cesare R. Sirtori, Italy

Stephen G. Sligar, USA

Ryan M. Smith, USA

Joanna Sobiak, Poland

Andrew A. Somogyi, Australia

Kevin M. Sowinski, USA

Christine E. Staatz, Australia

Joseph F. Standing, UK

Neeltje Steeghs, The Netherlands

Derrick Stobaugh, USA

Elin M. Svensson, Sweden

Carlyn Tan, USA

Daniel A. Tatosian, USA

Tomohiro Terada, Japan

David Ternant, France

Alison H. Thomson, UK

Dick Tibboel, The Netherlands

Huybrecht T’Jollyn, Belgium

Jaszianne Tolbert, USA

Robert Townsend, USA

Iñaki F. Troconiz, Spain

Andrew Udy, Australia

Marta Ulldemolins, Spain

Jashvant D. Unadkat, USA

Richard Upton, Australia

Erik van Maarseveen, The Netherlands

Niels Vande Casteele, USA

Jurgen Venitz, USA

Charles Venuto, USA

Alexander A. Vinks, USA

Swantje Voller, The Netherlands

Madeline Waldron, USA

Neal J. Weinreb, USA

Werner Weitschies, Germany

Larissa Wenning, USA

Eric Wenzler, USA

Sebastian G. Wicha, Germany

Jean-Baptiste Woillard, France

Christian Woloch, France

Harvey Wong, Canada

Lei Wu, USA

Zenhua Xu, USA

Ikuko Yano, Japan

Wendy Yeh, USA

Susumu Yokoya, Japan

Emily Yu, Canada

Lei Zhang, USA

Wei Zhao, China

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:

Fatemeh Akhlaghi, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA

Karel M. Allegaert, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Gail D. Anderson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Jos H. Beijnen, Utrecht University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hans R. Brunner, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Etienne Chatelut, Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Mei-Ling Chen, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Stephen J. Clarke, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Jennifer L. Clements, Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy, Clinton, SC, USA

Maria L. Dahl, Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala, Sweden

Neal M. Davies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Hartmut Derendorf, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

C. Lindsay DeVane, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Saskia N. de Wildt, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Thomas C. Dowling, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Stephen B. Duffull, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Chin B. Eap, Hopital de Cery, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hitoshi Echizen, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, Japan

Andrea N. Edginton, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Erik Eliasson, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Mary H. Ensom, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Albert Ferro, King’s College London, London, UK

Bruce Green, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Sam Harirforoosh, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA

Georg Hempel, Wilhelms-Universität Munster, Muster, Germany

Roger W. Jelliffe, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Charlotte Kloft, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Catherijne A. J. Knibbe, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jörn Lötsch, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Bernd Meibohm, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA

France Mentré, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Gerd Mikus, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Gene D. Morse, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Pertti J. Neuvonen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Federico Pea, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Emilio Perucca, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Johannes H. Proost, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

MichaelS. Roberts, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Amparo Sánchez Navarro, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Catherine M. T. Sherwin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Susan Tett, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Michel Tod, Université Lyon, Paris, France

Daniel J. Touw, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Vijay V. Upreti, Amgen, CA, USA

John N. van den Anker, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, USA

Teun van Gelder, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

We do hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in Clinical Pharmacokinetics 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,


Amitabh Prakash & Anton van Rensburg