The first year

Excerpt

In January 2019 I had the great honour to take over as Editor in Chief (EiC) of Acta Neuropathologica (ANP) from Werner Paulus. Of course, it was Werner who had suggested that I would be the right person for the job, otherwise I would not have dared to take over as I seriously doubted that I am up for this challenging task. However, we all know that Werner is always honest and apparently makes the right decisions, how else could one explain his truly remarkable and actually quite unbelievable success with ANP, where he managed to raise the impact factor (IF) from 2.6 when he took over as EiC (IF 2003) to 18.2 (IF 2018). So, how could I have dared to be disobedient and without hesitation I took the leap into the unknown. Well, not entirely unknown, as I co-edited ANPs sister journal Acta Neuropathologica Communications (ANC) together with Werner since 2014, but I knew that ANP has much higher demands. Now, nearly a year later it is about time to briefly reflect on the first year as EiC of ANP. …