On August 1, I had the honor of becoming Editor-in-Chief of CBE—Life Sciences Education, replacing William (Bill) Wood, who led the journal in this capacity for the past five years. Bill spearheaded a significant broadening in the scope of the journal, including its renaming to CBE—Life Sciences Education and an expansion of the editorial board to represent more life science disciplines and a g...

service Email alerting the top right corner of the online article. T he British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit (BOSU) has now been in existence for 5 years and has been actively involved in the surveillance of rare ophthalmological disorders for most of this time. It is now an appropriate time to consider what relevance it has to practising ophthal-mologists. The unit was set up to facilita...

Increasingly journals are using a variety of measures to benchmark the quality of their publications. Upon reflection one can source numerous statistics from reliable sources to find key indicators that showcase both the breadth and depth of relevance of a journal within a global academic and industry community of practice. We thought it especially important to present some key indicators in th...

This editorial marks the launch of a special collection of articles highlighting 'Five years of Trials' (http://www.trialsjournal.com/series/5years). The journal's achievements on its objectives since 2006 are described and some of the challenges still ahead are outlined - in particular further innovating in the reporting of trials and the publication of negative results. The other articles in ...