It is with some pride that we announce the European Thyroid Journal (ETJ) is now entering its sixth year of publication. Last year has been a very fruitful year for the ETJ. The number of submissions in 2016 increased by 30% compared to submissions in 2015. Nevertheless, the time between submission and notice to authors of editorial decision did not increase and remained 41 days on average. To accommodate the increasing flow of submitted papers, we will increase the number of issues in 2017 from 4 to 6, meaning ETJ is becoming a bimonthly periodical. The number of pages in the 2017 volume 6 will increase by 17%. Unavoidably the rejection rate, which is now just above 60%, will rise further - at the same time allowing us to select even more strictly the best-quality papers for publication. In 2016 the journal earned a listing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. The tragic death of Peter Laurberg, our associate editor for clinical thyroidology, was a great loss for the journal. Peter always promoted the journal, and actually it was his idea to start ETJ. We are fortunate in having Simon Pearce as his successor. Several new ventures started in 2016 to promote the journal even further, and they turned out to be rather successful. ETJ is now present on social media. An ultrashort synopsis of every individual paper, usually presented with a provocative question, is placed on Facebook frequently. We believe social media play an important role in how scientists and health care professionals obtain information about progress in science and changes in clinical practice. Social media might also be involved in author decisions regarding journal choice. So follow ETJ accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. The Annual Best Reviewer Award was presented for the first time at the European Thyroid Association annual meeting in September 2016 in Copenhagen. Criteria are the number of reviews, the quality of reviews, and the speed of reviews done for the journal. The award winner was Prof. Maria Alevizaki from Athens, earning a plaque as well as free registration and travel reimbursement for the Copenhagen meeting. The reviewer award is just one way in which we want to express our gratitude to all persons who act as reviewers for the journal. Their names for the year 2016 are listed below; one of them will be selected for the next Annual Best Reviewer Award. As I have said repeatedly before, fair but critical reviewers are essential to maintain the scientific quality of the journal at a high level.
Also on behalf of the associate editors Furio Pacini, Simon Pearce, Luca Persani, and Josef Koehrle,
Wilmar M. Wiersinga
Editor-in-Chief, European Thyroid Journal
Acknowledgement to Reviewers 2016
Maria Alevizaki
Stine Linding Andersen
Bjorn Åsvold
Thomas Bachleitner-Hofmann
Saba Balasubramanian
Luigi Bartalena
Taner Bayraktaroglu
D. Becu-Villalobos
Rocco Domenico Bellantone
Finn Noe Bennedbaek
Salvatore Benvenga
Bernadette Biondi
Sofie Bliddal
Fausto Bogazzi
Steen Bonnema
Georg Brabant
Gabriela Brenta
Bekir Cakir
Luis Carvajal-Carmona
Maria Grazia Castagna
Ethem Turgay Cerit
T. Cheetham
Iacopo Chiodini
Luca Chiovato
R. Conrad
David Cooper
Bernard Corvilain
Stephanie Cox
Liviu Danescu
Mario de Felice
Harald Dobnig
Quan-Yang Duh
Leonidas Duntas
Creswell Eastman
Grigoris Effraimidis
Rosella Elisei
Erik Endert
Murat Erdogan
Valentin Fadeyev
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen
Sebastiano Filetti
Emilio Fiore
Laura Fugazzola
Dagmar Führer
Roland Gartner
Melanie Geer
Anthony Gerdes
Carol Greenlee
Laszlo Hegedus
Zeliha Hekimsoy
Arturo Hernandez
Shih-Ming Huang
Paolo Innocenti
Carolina Janovsky
George Kahaly
Jasper Karmisholt
Peter Kopp
Tim Korevaar
Z. Krukowski
John Lazarus
Diana Learoyd
Mohamad Maghnie
Anna Luiza Maia
Claudio Marcocci
Marco Medici
Miguel Melo
Carla Moran
Roberto Negro
Marek Niedziela
Yuri Nikiforov
Mikael Nilsson
Helena Filipsson Nystrom
Antonella Olivieri
Fabio Orlandi
Enrico Papini
Ralf Paschke
Richard Payne
Petros Perros
Agnieszka Piekielko-Witkowska
Fabian Pitoia
Kris Poppe
Salman Ravzi
S.J. Richardson
Pedro Rosario
Lawrence Roth
Marek Ruchala
Martin Schlumberger
Lutz Schomburg
M. Schupp
Tarun Sekhri
Hiroki Shimura
Manuela Simoni
Peter Smyth
Steven Soldin
Marius Stan
David Steward
Hugo ten Cate
Linda Thienpont
O. Torring
Fernanda Vaisman
Mark Vanderpump
Paul van Trotsenburg
Theo Visser
Paolo Vitti
Robert Wagner
Anthony Weetman
Jean-Louis Wemeau
Alison Wilson
Shunichi Yamashita
Kiyoshi Yamauchi
Michael Zimmermann
