Expanding the frontiers of ageing research

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With the first issue of the European Journal of Ageing (EJA) in 2006, the journal’s third volume, we want to share with you our satisfaction and gratitude about the state of the journal. In this age of electronic communication, while we are writing this editorial (January 31), already the first article of this issue can be viewed online at springerlink.com (Larsson et al. 2006, this issue). We are satisfied, because we have achieved our goal of publishing four issues in 2005, each with articles on cutting-edge European and worldwide ageing research from the social, behavioural and health-related sciences. Three of the issues of 2005 were featuring special sections, including introductory and discussion papers, as well as free submissions. The fourth issue included free submissions only. On the Springer website, under ‘online first’, the five most viewed articles can be called up. At the moment of writing, these include not only an article published in March 2005 (Maier and Klumb 2005) but also already an article published in December 2005 (Börsch-Supan and Hank 2005). We are grateful to have been able to publish high-quality articles such as these. We feel indebted to both authors and reviewers. …