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Editorial
Reflections on a decade of editing Tobacco Control
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  1. Ruth E Malone
  1. Correspondence to Professor Ruth E Malone, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; ruth.malone{at}ucsf.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054759

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    This last issue of 2018 marks 10 years since I began service as editor-in-chief of Tobacco Control. Awed and excited to follow in the large footprints of former editor-in-chief Simon Chapman and, before that, founding editor Ron Davis, I could not then have imagined how quickly the decade would rush by. Supported by a tremendous team of senior editors and deputy editors, as well as a stellar editorial board and BMJ staff, the journal has thrived. Over the last decade, we marked 20 years of publication with a state-of-the-field anniversary issue, published numerous highly influential special supplements and remained the top policy-focused international journal in tobacco control circles. The following rather random ruminations on 10 years at the helm of this journal may perhaps thus be forgiven.

    In 2008, Tobacco Control received 398 submissions. The number varies from year to year, but in 2017, about 550 manuscripts were submitted, and our high to date was in 2016, when over 700 submissions came in. Whew! This year, we are on track to receive well over 600 papers, perhaps more.

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