Development of EURAPA and important information
Some information on the development of EURAPA is of importance for our EGREPA members, our readers, and submitters. Firstly, the newly released impact factor by Thomson Reuters in June 2011 shows an improvement for EURAPA to 0.947. EURAPA now ranks 36 of 44 titles in the category “geriatrics and gerontology.”
Going forward, when submitting a paper, it will now be mandatory to fill in a form with a conflict of interest statement which is integrated into the Editorial Manager™ system (please see the instructions for authors for further information). Furthermore, authors will now be able to propose possible reviewers for their paper on submission.
And finally, as one of the founding and acting editors, Prof. Sagiv departed from his position as editor in chief (biomedical sciences) at the end of 2010. We would like to thank him, as one of the forerunners, for making every effort to get this journal on a successful way and for accompanying it tirelessly for 7 years. His advice will still be welcome in the future.
We hope to be able to present and introduce a new editor in this position in our next issue of EURAPA. We look forward to the future development of EURAPA and hope for your increasing support as EGREPA members, authors, and readers.