With the October 2018 issue, we celebrate Cell Stress‘ first year of publishing high-quality research. Since it first appeared in October 2017, the journal has received more than 30.000 page visits from more than 40 different countries. Notably, page visits have doubled between 2017 and 2018, demonstrating that Cell Stress‘ visibility is rapidly increasing. In the course of this year, Cell Stress has published more than 80 articles from authors all around the globe, which are starting to be cited by the research community.

We have received groundbreaking reports and outstanding reviews from world-leading scientists, including articles by the groups around Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Frank Lyko, Salvador Aznar Benitah, Sebastian Hiller, G. Gregory Neely, Zhi-Min Yuan, Giuseppe Servillo and Andrea Ballabio, among many others. The evaluation of these submissions was supported by the expertise of high-profile referees across the world. We are also honored to announce that Cell Stress has recently been included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which indexes high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

In the course of the next year, Cell Stress will apply for inclusion in PubMed Central (PMC) and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). We are looking forward to draw our next balance, at the latest when we celebrate the 25th issue of Cell Stress, together with our outstanding Editorial Board, our authors, referees, and readers.