Greetings from New Editor-in-Chief

The first issue of the Journal of Wrist Surgery was published in August 2012, with one editorial, two forewords, one perspective, five special focus sections, two procedures, one original article, one case report, and one wrist and carpal anatomy article. With great and tremendous efforts of Dr. David Slutsky, the former Editor-in-Chief, the journal was soon listed in PubMed and is recently indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index. Since the beginning, more than 200 articles including special focus section, perspective, and clinical anatomy articles have been published and now JWS is recognized as one of the target journals for wrist investigators. It is now the official journal of European Wrist Arthroscopic Society (EWAS), which has been established for teaching and researching not only the wrist arthroscopy but also the anatomy, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of the disorders of the wrist.

Since this August, I take over the Editor-in-Chief position of the journal from David. My tasks are (1) keeping high quality of the published articles, (2) establishing a smooth review process, (3) creating a strong editorial board, and (4) getting an impact factor to the Journal. For these tasks, we now include most of the famous wrist and hand surgeons in the editorial board. I have asked Dr. Guillaume Herzberg to stay in the assistant editor position. Drs. Gregory I. Bain, Steven Moran, and Stephen K. Y. Tham will also join the assistant editor team to help me.

Special focus section, which includes invited articles mainly focused on a specific topic, has been published since the first issue of the journal. The idea of the Special focus section was great and attracted readers' interests well. Since this issue, however, I decide that “Special focus section” be changed to “Special reviews,” to invite more review style articles. This issue includes two great Special reviews of Kienböck disease. The original scientific articles still constitute the core of the journal. We also welcome wrist and carpal anatomy articles, emerging technologies, case reports, and letters to the editor.