I would like to acknowledge and thank the Associate Editors for their outstanding contribution during 2021:

Gustavo De-Deus, Henry Duncan, Michael Hülsmann, Francesco Mannocci, Paul McCabe, Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu, Ronald Ordinola-Zapata and Ove Peters. I particularly want to thank Michael Væth, the IEJ consultant statistical advisor, who has reviewed all the manuscripts sent for publication during 2021.

I would also like to thank the other members of the Editorial Board:

Francesc Abella Sans, Vivek Aggarwal, Teresa Arias Moliz, Lars Bjørndal, Sebastian Bürklein, Luis Chavez de Paz, Gary Cheung, Bun San Chong, Elisabetta Cotti, Roeland De Moor, Ashraf ElAyouti, José Figueiredo, Kerstin Galler, Brenda Gomes, Kishor Gulabivala, Markus Haapasalo, Tao Hu, Lise-Lotte Kirkevang, Anil Kishen, Gabriel Krastl, Thomas Kvist, Paul Lambrechts, Chun-Pin Lin, Prasanna Neelakantan, Mohammad Nekoofar, Takashi Okiji, Shanon Patel, Carlo Prati, Dan Rechenberg, Tina Rödig, Edgar Schäfer, Juan Segura-Egea, Hagay Shemesh, Erick Souza, Leo Tjäderhane, Phillip Tomson, Marco Versiani, Roland Weiger, John Whitworth and Matthias Zehnder.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank the panel of referees for their critical appraisal of manuscripts:

Carlos Adorno, Paras Ahmad, Hany Mohamed Aly Ahmed, Hacer Aksel, Ali Al-Ahmad, Satish Alapati, Afaf Al-Haddad, Ahmed Ali, Nassr Al-Nuaimi, Mario Alovisi, Flávio Alves, Anita Aminoshariae, Ana Arias, Hakan Arslan, Özgür Atasoy Ulusoy, Hengameh Bakhtiar, Vasudev Ballal, Flares Baratto-Filho, Claudía Barthel-Zimmer, Bettina Basrani, Felipe Belladonna, Sema Belli, Yuli Berlin-Broner, Elio Berutti, Bhavin Bhuva, Kerstin Bitter, Athanasia Bletsa, George Bogen, Eduardo Bortoluzzi, Tatiana Botero, Marco Bottino, Christos Boutsioukis, Claudia Brizuela, Carlos Eduardo Bueno, Frédéric Bukiet, Daniel Cabanillas-Balsera, Josette Camilleri, Marco Simões Carvalho, Peter Cathro, Daniele Cavalcante, Bruno Cavalcanti, Paulo Cerri, Mei-Chi Chang, Antonis Chaniotis, Leticia Chaves de Souza, Zhi Chen, Luciano Cintra, Marcelo Coelho, Fabrício Collares, Thomas Connert, Paul Cooper, Mabel Cordeiro, Jamie Coulter, Till Dammaschke, Umer Daood, Mieke De Bruyne, Andiara De Rossi, Massimo Del Fabbro, Omid Dianat, Piyameth Dilokthornsakul, W. L. Dissanayaka, Esma Doğramacı, Yanmei Dong, Aisling Donnelly, David Donnermeyer, Marco Duarte, Monty Duggal, Conor Durack, Fernando Duran-Sindreu, Ikhlas El Karim, Ayce Eldeniz, Amr Elnaghy, Carlos Estrela, Clovis Faggion Jr., Victor Feitosa, Marco Ferrari, David Figdor, Leopoldo Forner, Federico Foschi, Ashraf Fouad, Helena Fransson, Lara Friedlander, Marilisa Gabardo, Johnah Galicia, Gianluca Gambarini, Maria Giovanna Gandolfi, Yuan Gao, Lucas Garcia, Alexis Gaudin, Maximiliano Gomes, Lucio Gonçalves, Paul Green, René Gruythuysen, Lisha Gu, Ahmed Hashem, Jianing He, Wen-Xi He, Jaana Helenius-Hietala, Orapin Horst, Sepanta Hosseinpour, Dingming Huang, Yun-Chan Hwang, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Sameer Jain, Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Poorya Jalali, Fadi Jarad, Jiiang-Huei Jeng, María Jiménez-Sánchez, Ji-Yeon Jung, Richard Kahan, Bill Kahler, Masato Kaku, Thirumulu Kannan, Chia-Tze Kao, Bekir Karabucak, Ertuğrul Karataş, Conal Kavanagh, Nobuyuki Kawashima, Ali Keles, Kirati Kengkla, Cangul Keskin, Peter Kiefner, Sahng G. Kim, Sunil Kim, Meetu Kohli, Ralf Krug, Casper Kruse, Alan Law, Bin-Na Lee, Serena Lee, Julian Leprince, Ariadne Letra, Bruno Lima, Shaul Lin, Robert Love, Ahmad Madarati, Marina Marciano, Merete Markvart, Jorge Martins, Athina Mavridou, William McLean, Maarten Meire, Liuyan Meng, Montse Mercadé, Giovanni Mergoni, Maria Elissavet Metska, Zvi Metzger, Jelena Milasin, Kyung-San Min, Dirk Mohn, Ana Morandini, Renata Morgental, Christian Morsczeck, Fernando José Mota de Almeida, Peter Murray, Tadashi Nakanishi, Fábio Nascimento, Paulo Nelson-Filho, Aline Neves, Sadia Niazi, Ali Nosrat, John Nusstein, Naoto Ohkura, Hayato Ohshima, Motoki Okamoto, Juan Olivieri, Kaan Orhan, Fabíola Ormiga, Dag Ørstavik, Taha Özyürek, Paulo Palma, Fernanda Pappen, Luiz Renato Paranhos, Peter Parashos, Masoud Parirokh, Prasit Pavasant, Vytaute Peciuliene, Eugenio Pedullà, Ilona Persoon, Christine Peters, Arne Petersson, Kerstin Petersson, Maria Pigg, Fábio Pires, Gianluca Plotino, Ioana Pop, Amaury Pozos-Guillen, Alison Qualtrough, Sivakami Rethnam, Jessie Reyes-Carmona, Marcel Reymus, John Rhodes, Miguel Roig, Vinicius Rosa, Giampiero Rossi-Fedele, Flavia Saavedra, Kamran Safavi, Mohammad Ali Saghiri, Victor Sánchez-Margalet, Hajime Sasaki, Chankhrit Sathorn, Salvatore Sauro, Gottfried Schmalz, Ralf Schulze, Helmut Schweikl, Falk Schwendicke, Marc Semper, Frank Setzer, Pratik Shah, Ya Shen, Yoshiyuki Shibukawa, Su-Jung Shin, Annie Shrestha, Emmanuel Silva, Lea Silva, Renato Silva, Stephane Simon, Carla Sipert, Marcus Só, David Sonntag, Manoel Sousa-Neto, Gianrico Spagnuolo, Rubens Spin-Neto, Nessrin Taha, Yusuke Takahashi, Kai Soo Tan, Mário Tanomaru-Filho, Talita Tartari, Tamer Taşdemir, Marco Tatullo, Cleonice Teixeira, Luca Testarelli, Hüseyin Topçuoğlu, Igor Tsesis, Suzette van der Waal, Sajesh Veettil, Miira Vehkalahti, Jorge Vera, Rolando Vernal, Satnam Virdee, Rodrigo Vivan, Rick Walton, Fengming Wang, Xi Wei, Matthias Widbiller, Patricia Wright, Weishi Yan, Hyeong-Cheol Yang, Ghaeth Yassen, Ling Ye, Victoria Yu, Miriam Zaccaro Scelza, Angelo Zavattini, Mário Zuolo.

As you may have seen (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652591), Hal Duncan will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the IEJ on 1 January 2022. I am delighted for Hal, and I am confident he will take the Journal to the next level.

I started my role as Editor in 1999, and the last 20 years or so have been an interesting and challenging journey. I am delighted we managed to increase the reach and impact of the IEJ—as well as that of the specialty of Endodontology. When I started in my role, we received less than 100 manuscripts a year and we used a small notebook to maintain records. We used conventional mail to receive and return manuscripts and for most correspondence! Now, we receive around 1000 submission each year and Wiley have developed an effective online system to manage the editorial process!

None of the gains we have made would have been possible without our contributing authors, who continue to submit an ever-increasing range of quality manuscripts to the Journal. To support authors and maintain the exceptional standards we have introduced over the years, I have been fortunate to have the support of a dynamic team of Associate Editors, a strong Editorial Board and a rigorous panel of referees. I want to thank all those who have contributed to the Journal over the period of my tenure. I want to record my thanks to Sue Bryant for her day-to-day help and support—in reality, she ran the office and told me what to do! Finally, I want to thank the Production Team at Wiley and Ms Mie Bak, the journal publisher.

I hope to see you in Lisbon in May 2022 for WCDT 2022 and in September 2022 for ESE Budapest 2022.