Endoscopy 2007; 39(1): 1
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966175
Editorial

© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Foreword

T.  Rösch
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
25 January 2007 (online)

Dear colleagues, endoscopic researchers, and friends of the journal,

when you picked up this copy of our journal you will have noticed that Endoscopy has a new layout.

Much will be familiar to you. As in the past all scientific articles appear in two columns, a well-proven method of presentation when combining text with tables and figures. Other sections, such as Letters to the Editor, have also kept their basic format, appearing in three columns - the ideal layout for shorter articles. Whilst retaining these features, there have been other modifications throughout the journal to further ease the readability of each article as well as to optimize Endoscopy's general format.

2006 was a good year for Endoscopy. With an increasing number of submissions (an expected total of 1200 by the end of December) and a stable impact factor of around 4, we were also proud to have had many excellent and innovative clinical as well as experimental papers. Important prospective (possibly randomized) clinical studies and papers on technical innovation are always given a certain amount of preference and speedy processing. Nevertheless we will continue to think about what we might improve and how we might bring information to you more effectively. I am very grateful to my coeditors, Guido Costamagna, Jacques Devière, Paul Fockens, Horst Neuhaus, Thierry Ponchon, Nimish Vakil and Kenjiro Yasuda, who have done a wonderful job in helping me and guiding the journal through these times.

The new format of the Cases & Techniques Library was introduced in June, as an online compilation of interesting cases, technical tricks, and important complications. There is already great interest from the international endoscopic readership who access the library at www.thieme.de/endoscopy/UCTN. Our highly appreciated Expert Approach and Innovation Forum sections are now managed by Jacques Bergman, and this is the right moment to thank his predecessor, René Lambert, who not only gave us the idea for these, but also brought it to life with his enormous energy and supervision. We are more than happy that he is thinking about a new section dedicated to endoscopy and beyond, providing a look into neighbouring areas that we are concerned with.

Last and most importantly, I really want to thank all our authors who have come along with us over the past 15 years. We are also extremely grateful to our reviewers; we are very well aware of the greater workload due to the increase in the number of submissions, and the assistance of all of them in making the best selection of papers has been both enormous and crucial.

I wish you a Happy New Year, and ask you to accompany us again in a new and exciting year for Endoscopy!

Thomas Rösch

Editor-in-Chief

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