Editorial Flying Through 5 Years

‘‘I can do anything now at age 90 that I could do when 18, which shows how pathetic I was at 18.’’ —George Burns I have had the tremendous privilege of serving the readersof the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences as their Editor for the last 5 years. The Journal has been fortunate in receiving an extraordinarily strong set of articles from contributors. This has allowed the Journal to enhance its reputation as shown by the growth in its impact factor [Figure 1; see (1) for definitions]. Only the Neurobiology of Aging now has a better impact factor in the category of geriatrics and gerontology (Table 1). In addition, the Journal has the highest immediacy index. Over the last 5 years, we have made a number of improvements to the readability of the Journal. This has included editorials that have concentrated on placing th