Innovations in research on social contexts of ageing

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This editorial marks the first issue of the fifth volume of the European Journal of Ageing. We as editors are very happy to see that the Journal has reached this milestone. It shows that the Journal has proved viable, and fills a niche in the market of ageing-related journals. We owe this milestone in the first place to our expanding group of contributing authors. In 2007, we had 49 submitted manuscripts, and we were able to publish 26 articles. We are also pleased to note that the number of countries where the authors were based increased. In particular, we had contributions from southern Europe (Verropoulou and Tsimbos 2007) and eastern Asia (Yeung and Fung 2007). This fits in with our goal to recruit high-quality research papers from countries outside northern and western Europe, from which regions most publications still originate. …