10 years and going strong!

The start of 2015 is significant for the international journal of stroke; it seems hard to believe that this is our tenth year of publication; volume 10, issue 1. Casting my mind back to the beginnings of the journal I did not think that we would be as well established as we are now in the top echelon of stroke journals worldwide, with an Impact Factor of 4·029 and the fastest rising IF in the neurosciences. As the flagship publication of the WSO, we have embraced manuscripts from around the globe, with reviews on an exciting and important range of topics. I’m particularly fond of our Panorama section where we have now had articles from countries ranging from Nepal, Indigenous Australia, to Puerto Rico in this edition. Indeed, the updated, online compilation of our Panorama articles, which will appear during 2015, and will provide a marvellous kaleidoscope on stroke management in some of the more unknown parts of the world, certainly something to look forward to during this 10 anniversary year. Anniversaries tend to induce reflection. In this edition we have a theme around acute stroke intervention and imaging, which brings back memories of where we were 40 years ago, in 1975, just prior to commencement of my training in Neurology; the contrast could not have been more stark. There was no acute imaging available, in that CT scanning had yet to burst onto the scene in a practical sense; there were no proven forms of acute stroke therapy nor any proven means of secondary stroke prevention. The first stroke therapy of any type of proven benefit was to come three years later in the form of aspirin in 1978. Here we are in 2015, with our current edition themed around acute stroke interventions ranging from the ethics of clinical trials Michael Hill et al, through to the fascinating findings of Cheng et al, from the INTERACT groups relating ambient temperatures to peri hemotonal edema in intracerebral hemorrhage. To think that we would be presenting sophisticated topics such as Prediction of Recanalization In Acute Stroke Patients Receiving Intravenous and Endovascular Revascularization Therapy or Detection of ischemic penumbra using combined perfusion and T2* oxygen challenge imaging would be scarcely believed 40 years ago. These and other articles in this edition, reflect the incredible advances that have occurred over what is a relatively short timespan, one wonders what the 2055 edition of IJS contain! Once again, we are going to be presented with an array of exciting meetings on our Calender for 2015, starting with ISC in Nashville, Tennessee and quickly followed by the inaugural ESOC in Glasgow, of course, IJS will be there, as always and live tweeting content as it’s being presented; exciting times indeed! DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12403 Editorial