Past, present and future

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We would like to start by thanking everyone who has been involved in the journal during the year, especially the reviewers who are listed here. Reviewing a manuscript is time-consuming and unpaid, and often reviewers are bombarded with requests to review simultaneously from several journals. We are very much aware of this, so we try and limit the number of reviews as much as possible. But we are also aware that we lean heavily on the same reviewers over and over again due to their excellence. In other words, ‘the only reward for doing good work is more work!…’ As Editors, we are constantly looking for new reviewers to reduce and redistribute the workload. In fact, we have been successful in this task, and currently, there are more than 500 active reviewers on our list. We try hard to use reviewers in a sensible manner, not to overload them and only give them papers that are closely related to their field of expertise. If we do not succeed all the time, it is not for want of trying. We should like to thank all the reviewers for their efforts during 2012. Your work is invaluable, and without you, the journal would simply not survive. …