Dear Reader,

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all who have contributed to ensuring the journal has thrived despite the extraordinary circumstances that the science community, and the world in general, has faced in the past couple of years.

Firstly, I would like to thank the authors of the articles published in Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy over the course of 2022. The willingness and enthusiasm of our authors to contribute content to the journal are crucial for its continued success.

We are also very grateful to 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.

The high quality of the content published in Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy has been reflected in the most recent impact factor of 4.476, a record high for the journal and a CiteScoreTM of 6.9. Further, Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy has published content in a timely manner, with an average time from submission to first decision of 17 days and from acceptance to online publication of 30 days.

The quality of published articles is also testament to the diligence of the peer reviewers, whose willingness to share their expertise ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest standard. We would like to acknowledge the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy in the last 12 months:

Hoda Abdallah, Egypt

Hamid M. Abdolmaleky, USA

James B. Adams, USA

Walter Adriani, Italy

Trevor E. Angell, USA

Luca Antonioli, Italy

Xiaomin Bao, USA

Christian Barro, USA

Alakananda Basu, USA

Sabina Baumgartner-Parzer, Austria

Carla Boccaccio, Italy

Yurii S. Borovikov, The Russian Federation

Camille Boulagnon-Rombi, France

Renáta Bozó, Hungary

Erwin Brosens, The Netherlands

María José Buitrago, Spain

Emil Bulatov, The Russian Federation

Oscar Campuzano, Spain

Fabio Candotti, Switzerland

S.C. Carneiro, Brazil

Gabriella Castoria, Italy

Lindsay J. Celada, USA

Nishant Chakravorty, India

Som S. Chatterjee, USA

Max Chernesky, Canada

Elaine Y.Y. Cheung, Australia

Javier Chinen, USA

Peter Choi, USA

Andrew J. Colebatch, Australia

Niall Corcoran, Australia

Elena De Vita, UK

Charles R. Dean, USA

Selami Demirci, USA

Silvano Dragonieri, Italy

Shangming Du, Germany

Shiwei Duan, China

Reinhard Dummer, Switzerland

Thomas Eggermann, Germany

Jakub P. Fichna, Poland

Claudio Fiocchi, USA

Robert J. Fontana, USA

Renato Franco, Italy

Anja Gäckler, Germany

Maria Galindo, Spain

Yu-Zhen Gao, China

Eleni Gavriilaki, Greece

Éloïse Giabicani, France

Roberta Giordo, United Arab Emirates

Heather L. Glasgow, USA

Andrey S. Glotov, The Russian Federation

Yoel Gofin, USA

Svetlana Gorokhova, France

Aleksandra Grela-Wojewoda, Poland

Scott D. Grosse, USA

Jian-Long Guan, China

Fen Guo, USA

Xu-Guang Guo, China

Peter Hagedorn, Denmark

Tristan Hardy, Australia

Atif A. Hashmi, Pakistan

Beate Haugk, UK

Rong He, USA

Robert L. Hendren, USA

Daniel L. Hertz, USA

Daniel Hilger, Germany

Matthew I. Hiskens, Australia

Daniel J. Hodson, UK

Christopher L. Holley, USA

Jason Howitt, Australia

Susan Hsiao, USA

Chao-Kai Hsu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Fabien Hubert, France

Cristiane Ida, USA

Chukwuemeka V. Ikpeazu, USA

Gino In, USA

Tadeusz Issat, Poland

Christopher M. Jackson, USA

Hartmut Jaeschke, USA

Aditi Jain, USA

Biljana Jekic, Serbia

Scott D. Jewell, USA

Ivana Joksic, Serbia

Anna Kablak-Ziembicka, Poland

Jennifer Kalish, USA

Alexandra Kalogeraki, Greece

Murat Karaoğlan, Turkey

Olga Karpicheva, The Russian Federation

Nasibeh Karimi, USA

Anna Kawiak, Poland

Melissa A. Kelly, USA

Vanessa Kennedy, USA

Narae Kim, Japan

Eddy Kizana, Australia

Indu Kohaar, USA

Ciaran Kohli-Lynch, USA

Antonis Kourtidis, USA

Valentyna Kryklyva, The Netherlands

Canan Kuscu, USA

Michaela Lackner, Austria

Volker Lauschke, Sweden

Dimitri Lavillette, China

Carsten W. Lederer, Cyprus

Loic Lemonnier, France

Maria Levkova, Bulgaria

Ka Keat Lim, UK

Meng Lin, USA

Shijie Liu, USA

Jose A. Lopez-Escamez, Spain

Chia-Feng Lu, Taiwan, Republic of China

Andrea Lunardi, Italy

Yafeng Ma, Australia

Thomas T. MacDonald, UK

Anil K. Madugundu, USA

Marina Marini, Italy

Steven B. Marston, UK

Robert McWilliams, USA

Michael L. Merchant, USA

Sven Michel, Germany

Shuji Momose, Japan

Kevin Moreau, UK

Axel Muendlein, Austria

A. Mukhopadhyay, India

Vanja Nagy, Austria

Ken Natsuga, Japan

Irene Netchine, France

Ainsley J. Newson, Australia

Monika Oldak, Poland

Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Mexico

Raymond Owens, UK

Despina Papakosta, Greece

Jai N. Patel, USA

Reuben J. Pengelly, UK

Germán R. Perez, Argentina

Carmen Pheiffer, South Africa

Leonardo Z. Pipek, Brazil

Federico Prefumo, Italy

Mirja Puolakkainen, Finland

Sudarshan Rajagopal, USA

Sivaprakash Ramalingham, India

Marie Ranson, Australia

Peter J. Riegman, The Netherlands

Carrie Ris-Stalpers, The Netherlands

Helen Rizos, Australia

Alessandro Rizzo, Italy

Jürgen Rödel, Germany

Analiz Rodriguez, USA

Fausto J. Rodriguez, USA

Paul Roepman, The Netherlands

Leonardo Roever, Brazil

Maria Rossing, Denmark

Florence I. Roullet, Canada

Somak Roy, USA

Rani Sachdev, Australia

Lydia Sagath, Finland

Fabian Sanchis-Gomar, Spain

Gijs W.E. Santen, The Netherlands

Roland Schmitz, Germany

Roberto Schreiber, Brazil

Matthias Schwab, Germany

Akansha Shah, USA

Jingzhe Shang, China

Liming Shen, China

Sergey Sidorenko, The Russian Federation

Dario Siniscalco, Italy

Abay Sisay, Ethiopia

Lillian L. Siu, Canada

Maria J. Stasia, France

Maher A. Sughayer, Jordan

Qing Sun, China

Dorothy M. Supp, USA

Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, Japan

Rajkumar P. Thummer, India

Xun Tian, China

Elena Tirrò, Italy

Sara Tomei, Qatar

Emina E. Torlakovic, Canada

Victor Trevino, Mexico

Jan Trøst Jørgensen, Denmark

Natalia Trpchevska, Sweden

Hin Fung Tsang, Hong Kong, China

Shlomo Tsuriel, Israel

Hēth R. Turnquist, USA

Sony Tuteja, USA

Jop van Berlo, USA

Mieke Van Bockstal, Belgium

Paul van der Leest, The Netherlands

Gerardus P.J. van Hout, The Netherlands

Rita Verma, USA

Tijl Vermassen, Belgium

Maria T. Vietri, Italy

Cristina Villena, Spain

Jun Wang, China

Yun Wang, China

Joanna Wardlaw, UK

Jonathon K. Watts, USA

Jesper Wengel, Denmark

Michelle M. Williams, USA

Jana Wittig, Germany

John Woodford, USA

Peizeng Yang, China

Takahito Yasuda, Japan

Xin Yuan, China

Elena Zaklyazminskaya, The Russian Federation

Shenghong Zhang, China

Fusheng Zhou, China

Weimin Zhou, China

Ying S. Zou, USA

I am constantly looking for innovative ways to help improve the discoverability of the work published in the journal. Last year we have launched journal collections (https://link.springer.com/journal/40291/collections) and we now have five topical collections focused on dermatology, diagnosis of COVID-19, droplet digital PCR, brain tumours and breast cancer.

I hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2022 to be both interesting and informative. I have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal this year and look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in molecular diagnosis and therapy in 2023.

With best wishes,

Alison Fitches