Editorial 2009

ARTICLE

Auteur(s) : Jean-François Nicolas

Annual General Board Meeting, Paris, 2008

From the left: C. Kowalewski, D. Gawkrodger, G. Cahn, M. Hertl, J.-F. Nicolas, N. Tsankov, L. Braathen, R. Happle, A. Claudy, J.-P. Baudoin, B. Berman

Front row: L. Brochez, A. Gimenez-Arnau, M. Gonçalo, J. Messenger, R. Kaci, G. Zambruno, S. Karpati, M. Belanger

The Annual General Meeting of the European Journal of Dermatology was held as usual during the EADV congress, which this year took place in Paris, France, enabling several collaborators from John Libbey Eurotext (our publisher) to be present.

Pr Thivolet has now retired from all editorial activity and appears in the Journal as the Founding Editor. Jean, with his wife, Simone, is living a very active retirement, taking care of his numerous grandchildren and of his big house near Lyon. He has asked me to forward his warmest regards to all of you.

My role as Editor-in-chief was confirmed by the Board Members during the meeting. We also welcome two new co-editors, Ana Gimenez-Arnau and Andrea Cavani who are now running the Spanish and Italian offices. The US office is currently closed. Gianna Zambruno (1993-2008), Reza Ghohestani (2002-2007), Ramon Pujol (2003-2007), are warmly thanked for their past management of these editorial offices. The editorial board has also been renewed with the welcome addition of Lieve Brochez (Belgium), Thilo Jakob (Germany), Marcel Jonkman (Netherlands), Cesari Kowalewski (Poland), Ketty Peris (Italy), and Esther von Stebut-Borschitz (Germany). We extend our grateful thanks for his work for the EJD and best wishes to Helmut Kerl, who has resigned from the Board on his retirement.

With the increasing impact of online submission we have seen an increase of over 30% in the number of papers received from 2007 to 2008, with papers coming from countries as far apart as Thailand, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Morocco, Russia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Colombia and Lithuania, although most papers continue to come from the larger European countries, Japan, Turkey and the USA. As reported last year [1], the ‘correspondence’ rubric has enabled us to publish an increasing number of these papers - a total of 117 in 2008. However, as before [2], over 50% of the correspondence and 70% of the clinical and investigative reports submitted are currently rejected, with only the best and most interesting papers accepted.

The EJD Book Series has three new volumes appearing in 2009, which we encourage you to add to your libraries.

To all our readers and authors, the whole world over, I wish an active and productive 2009.Jean-François NICOLAS

References

2 Thivolet J. Editorial. Eur J Dermatol 2007; 17(1): 3.