There have been some changes to the Board of Editors of the IJSM. Already this year,
Prof. Donald Dengel of the University of Minnesota, USA, replaced editor Prof. Joseph
Houmard, who had been with the journal since 2006 and chose to leave the team for
professional reasons.
Unfortunately, our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Appell Coriolano is fast approaching his
retirement from academia and will also be leaving the IJSM editorial team. Hans-Joachim
Appell Coriolano joined the Editorial Board of the IJSM in 1987 and accepted the position
of Assistant Editor in 1989. Over the years, he gradually assumed even greater responsibility
for manuscript organization and editing. He has served as Editor-in-Chief since 2006
and is regarded as a true “primus inter pares” within the editors' team. For his tremendous commitment and unwavering dedication
to the IJSM for nearly 30 years, Prof. Appell Coriolano is acknowledged by his peers
and Thieme Publishers as the “heart and soul” of the IJSM as it exists today. The
level of scientific quality and international recognition attained by the IJSM is
in large part due to his valuable contributions and scientific rigor. It is therefore
with great regret that we bid him farewell, but we are sure that his guidance and
spirit will continue to shape the future of this publication.
