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Welcome to a hopefully Happy New Year 2021! After a difficult year crammed with unexpected challenges, we hope that we can now all return, slowly but surely, to a new normal in good health and positive spirits.
This issue opens the 61st volume of the European Journal of vascular and endovascular surgery (EJVES) and marks the year in the middle of the present leadership cycle.
, last year was dedicated to restructuring towards more professional workflows. Thereby, dedicated sections were introduced for the Journal's core areas: carotid, aorto-iliac and peripheral artery disease, as well as systematic reviews. A four eye principle in decision making, and systematic statistical appraisal of accepted papers were installed. And a comprehensive style homogenisation of tables and figures was established.
In parallel, the production of ESVS clinical guidelines was standardised and enhanced, and, as a consequence, two key practice guidelines (one on the management of acute limb ischaemia
Editor's choice - European society for vascular surgery (ESVS) 2020 clinical practice guidelines on the management of vascular graft and endograft infections.
Editor's choice - European society for vascular surgery (ESVS) 2019 clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aorto-iliac artery aneurysms.
All these efforts in synergy and with the Journal's impact factor increase to 5.328, have resulted in a record number of submissions to the EJVES in 2020.
the EJVES has managed to speed up its editorial processes over the year. Whereas the average time to the first editorial decision stayed at three to four weeks, crucial measures such as ‘time to first online’ and ‘time to final publication’ were reduced by two to three weeks. This is a pleasing outcome for the conjoint efforts to keep the EJVES attractive to our authors. In 2021, we will publish new findings even faster by putting uncorrected proofs of accepted papers online.
As is customary at the end of a year, the Editors acknowledged and thanked the journal's reviewers in the last issue for their enormous help to achieve these goals.
In 2020, the EJVES was supported by 417 reviewers who performed a stunning 3281 expert peer reviews for the Journal. This enormous work is purely driven by enthusiasm and interest and is provided on a complimentary basis.
This year, the EJVES also wants to acknowledge and thank another crucial group of people for their unremitting hard work which is all too often taken for granted: The editorial and publisher's staff behind the Journal's success (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3). Many are well known clinicians, skilful surgeons and international leaders in their field. Others may be less well known, but all are exquisite scholars and scientists, curious and always striving for knowledge. Without their idealistic commitment, the EJVES would not exist.
Figure 1Senior and Section Editors, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. (A) Florian Dick,Editor in Chief, Switzerland, since September 2011 (EiC since January 2020); (B) Martin Björck,Senior Editor, Sweden, September 2012 to September 2016 and SE since October 2019; (C) Mark Koelemay,emeritus, The Netherlands, September 2010 to December 2020; (D) Gert J. De Borst,Section Editor, The Netherlands, since September 2012; (E) Jonathan Boyle,Section Editor, United Kingdom, since September 2016; (F) Joseph L. Mills,Section Editor, USA, since May 2020; and (G) Kevin Mani,Section Editor, Sweden, since September 2016.
Figure 2Associate Editors, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. (A) Nabil Chakfé,Associate Editor, France, since September 2015; (B) Arindam Chaudhuri,Associate Editor, United Kingdom, since July 2015; (C) Marianne De Maeseneer,Associate Editor, The Netherlands, since September 2013; (D) Stavros Kakkos,Associate Editor, Greece, since September 2016; (E) Riikka Tulamo,Associate Editor, Finland, since April 2019; (F) Eric Verhoeven,Associate Editor, Germany, since September 2015; (G) Oliver Lyons,incoming Associate Editor, United Kingdom, from January 2021; and (H) Isabelle Van Herzeele,incoming Associate Editor, Belgium, from January 2021.
First and foremost, we bid farewell to the longest standing Editor of the group, Mark Koelemay who, after more than 10 years in the journal's service, has decided to step down. He led the Systematic reviews section and curated the Journal's correspondence, but above all guided us with his wise yet critical appraisal and unerring advice. His voice will be missed, even if well replaced. Of the other section editors (Fig. 1), Gert De Borst is driving the Carotid section with a lot of enthusiasm after having chaired the Guidelines committee on the Journal's behalf for many years. Jonathan Boyle has taken the Aortic section to even greater heights with an admirable overview of current trends. Joe Mills only joined in 2020 as the first ever EJVES Editor from the US, and already shapes the Peripheral arterial disease section into a hub for seminal analyses. Kevin Mani will take over from Mark after having cared for the randomised trials and having ensured a sound methodology in EJVES publications. In addition, he has assembled and led an excellent group of young clinician statisticians who screen all published papers for analytical consistency and internal validity.
The Associate Editors (Fig. 2) process and curate submissions in all other exciting fields of vascular care. Nabil Chakfé, not only a cardiovascular surgeon, but also an inventor and founder of GEPROVAS, screens all basic research submissions for promising translational investigations. Arindam Chaudhuri, social media native, has pushed the EJVES presence in the social media through the roof to reach a much larger community than the subscriber base.
He has also embossed many of the Journal's short report formats. Marianne De Maeseneer and Stavros Kakkos have successfully built up the Journal's ‘Blue Department’ to gain support in the phlebology community and launched a series of key guidelines in that field. In addition, Stavros curates the educational contents. Riikka Tulamo has single handedly enforced the style requirements in all publications over the past two years, and thereby shone with incredible diligence, accuracy, and foresight. Finally, Eric Verhoeven has catapulted the EJVES into the realms of endovascular complexities and innovations, tapping his remarkable experience and complex networks.
We warmly welcome two incoming Editors (Fig. 2). Oliver Lyons will follow Kevin in caring for methodology and randomised trials; and Isabelle Van Herzeele will take over Research letters, Images and Educational content. Both of them will also support Riikka to get acquainted with the style concepts.
A Journal would not exist without a reliable, supportive and swift publishing team (Fig. 3). Many authors will know Annette Fowler, the administrative Editor, who runs the editorial office with unmatched competence and gentleness to process the submissions. All authors who have experienced her quick and accurate replies to whatever issue, will probably be surprised by the fact that she serves not only the EJVES, but four scientific journals! Once a submission is accepted, Claire Quick, the Journal manager, takes over to oversee production. This includes copy and style editing, language editing (perfectly provided for many years by Simon Parvin, former Secretary General of the ESVS and aesthete) and typesetting. With imperturbability, she ensures a perfect result by pre-emptive handling of all pitfalls. Behind this team stands Ash Allan, the Publisher, as the best partner the EJVES could wish for. He supports not only processes with dedication but also the people involved and is an integral part of the EJVES success.
Last but not least, the Editors are supported by a dedicated advisory board of eminent clinicians and scientists who are recruited and renewed annually from the very best reviewers.
Members are engaged for three to six years in the Editorial board, and they have a strategic role in the development of the journal, as outlined in the ESVS byelaws. In exceptional cases engagements are prolonged, but never to more than 9 years. We try to rejuvenate a small proportion every year to keep the vascular community involved, and to encourage the best reviewers. We warmly thank all the members who have left the board at the end of last year for their outstanding service and welcome the new Editorial board members!
Together we will give our best in 2021 to serve our readers' needs and to provide best research and clinical guidance in vascular care. Happy New Year!
Editor's choice - European society for vascular surgery (ESVS) 2020 clinical practice guidelines on the management of vascular graft and endograft infections.
Editor's choice - European society for vascular surgery (ESVS) 2019 clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aorto-iliac artery aneurysms.
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