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This editorial marks the first issue of the fifth volume of the European Journal of Ageing. We as editors are very happy to see that the Journal has reached this milestone. It shows that the Journal has proved viable, and fills a niche in the market of ageing-related journals. We owe this milestone in the first place to our expanding group of contributing authors. In 2007, we had 49 submitted manuscripts, and we were able to publish 26 articles. We are also pleased to note that the number of countries where the authors were based increased. In particular, we had contributions from southern Europe (Verropoulou and Tsimbos 2007) and eastern Asia (Yeung and Fung 2007). This fits in with our goal to recruit high-quality research papers from countries outside northern and western Europe, from which regions most publications still originate. Also, we have an expanding group of active readers, which can be observed from the number of times articles published in the Journal have been cited in other Journals than the EJA. This number was 16 at the end of 2006, and was up to 56 at the end of 2007. A provisional calculation of the impact factor shows that this indicator amounted to 0.40 for 2006, and 0.97 for 2007. The best cited article, with 11 citations in journals other than the EJA, was the overview of the ENABLE-AGE project (Iwarsson et al. 2004). Just when finalising this Editorial, we had the excellent news that the Journal has been accepted by ISI. This opens the door to indexing EJA articles in scientific databases and measuring their impact and influence on future research. The ISI decision was based on among others: ‘‘the Journal’s excellent quality, timely publication, the international diversity and the fact that it is of great regional importance.’’ Although these facts are quite satisfactory, we will continue to work on increasing the impact of the EJA on the gerontological research community. One upcoming event will certainly have our attention: the 19th congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, in July 2009 in Paris. This will be a high-profile event for the international gerontological community. Our publisher is already preparing for this event in order to highlight the role of our Journal in this community. Going from numbers to substance, it remains our mission to contribute to the understanding of ageing in Europe and the world over. Our main tool is the publication of research reports, either as single publications or in thematic special sections. In the year 2008, we plan to address in special sections two themes that we feel need attention: the relation between unhealthy lifestyles and disability, and midlife determinants of mental health and implications for old age. In the section Critical Issues in Ageing Research, we will invite one or more contributions that present widerranging expert opinions on aspects of the state of the art in gerontology. In addition, we have been asked by editorial board members to open a section on book reviews. As very many books on research on ageing are being published, it will not be possible to provide a comprehensive overview of recent books, or even to select the most important ones. However, we will start to invite thematic essays based on a couple of recent books by experts in the field. D. J. H. Deeg (&) VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: eja@vumc.nl

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