If you read the editorial of BioEssays’ June Issue you will have seen that Andrew Moore has left Wiley to pursue a career as a freelance writer and writing coach. It is my great pleasure to succeed Andrew in his role of Editor-in-Chief of this very special review journal.

I started my publishing career back in the summer of 2010 when I joined BioEssays as Assistant Editor, and I was therefore very fortunate to have been working with Andrew on the journal for more than 10 years. Over the years, my responsibilities for the journal have shifted from dealing with author and reviewer queries, writing the “Highlights of this issue” section and post-acceptance related work to overseeing the peer review process, commissioning articles and making decisions. Most of the articles published in BioEssays are actively invited, and I immensely enjoy the contact with our authors to discuss their ideas for interesting manuscripts.

From the very beginning I have been very fond of this peculiar journal. With my background in cellular and molecular biology I have always enjoyed the wide variety of different topic areas published in BioEssays—from cancer to stem cells all the way to neuroscience and back to epigenetics to name just a few. This broad scope makes BioEssays attractive for researchers from distant fields and requires our articles to be written for a wide audience. In fact, we often receive feedback from our readers and authors saying that they enjoy reading BioEssays’ articles—also the ones that may lie somewhat outside their own area of expertise. Nevertheless, our reviews are also intended to provide an authoritative overview of a certain topic area that an expert reader can equally appreciate.

In addition, I believe that by publishing various different types of reviews (our many different “rubrics”), we are able to offer our authors greater freedom than many other review journals. From our speculative “Ideas & Speculations” rubric via “Hypotheses” all the way to our “Recently in press” mini-reviews as well as “Problems & Paradigms” and “Think again”, our authors have a variety of different formats to choose from. While our more standard “Review essays” are still popular, over the years we have seen an increasing interest of our authors to write a manuscript for one of these other rubrics we offer. Back in 2010 when I started working for BioEssays, we published seven articles in our “Hypotheses” rubric, 23 “Problems & Paradigms” articles and 55 “Review essays”. In the last 10 years the proportion of “Review essays” has decreased, and last year we ended up publishing 25 “Hypotheses”, 46 “Problems & Paradigms” articles and 35 “Review essays”. These various different rubrics in BioEssays thus fill a niche that our authors—and hopefully our readers as well—greatly appreciate. As Editor-in-Chief I will continue this tradition of publishing interesting hypotheses as well as forward-looking reviews in order to provide a forum for publishing “Ideas that push the boundaries” as our tagline says.

Andrew entitled his last Editorial “What a privilege to have been a true editor”. I am very grateful for his mentorship over all these years and for him to have taught me what it means to be “a true editor”. It is now my great privilege to continue his work and to take over such a respected publication as Editor-in-Chief.

Kerstin Brachhold

Editor-in-Chief

如果您阅读 BioEssays 6 月刊的社论，您就会发现 Andrew Moore 已离开 Wiley，从事自由作家和写作教练的职业。我很高兴接替安德鲁担任这本非常特别的评论期刊的主编。

我于 2010 年夏天加入 BioEssays 担任助理编辑，开始了我的出版生涯，因此我很幸运能与 Andrew 在该期刊上合作超过 10 年。多年来，我对期刊的职责已经从处理作者和审稿人的问题、撰写“本期亮点”部分和接受后相关工作转变为监督同行评审过程、委托文章和做出决定。BioEssays 上发表的大多数文章都受到积极邀请，我非常喜欢与我们的作者联系，讨论他们对有趣手稿的想法。

从一开始我就很喜欢这个奇特的期刊。凭借我在细胞和分子生物学方面的背景，我一直很喜欢 BioEssays 上发表的各种不同主题领域——从癌症到干细胞，一直到神经科学，再到表观遗传学，仅举几例。这种广泛的范围使 BioEssays 对来自遥远领域的研究人员具有吸引力，并要求我们的文章是为广大读者撰写的。事实上，我们经常收到读者和作者的反馈，他们说他们喜欢阅读 BioEssays 的文章——还有那些可能在他们自己的专业领域之外的文章。尽管如此，我们的评论还旨在提供专家读者同样可以欣赏的某个主题领域的权威概述。

此外，我相信通过发表各种不同类型的评论（我们的许多不同的“标题”），我们能够为作者提供比许多其他评论期刊更大的自由。从我们的推测性“想法与推测”标题到“假设”一直到我们的“最近出版”迷你评论以及“问题与范式”和“再想一想”，我们的作者有多种不同的格式可供选择从。虽然我们更标准的“评论文章”仍然很受欢迎，但多年来，我们看到我们的作者越来越有兴趣为我们提供的这些其他主题之一撰写手稿。早在 2010 年我开始为 BioEssays 工作时，我们在“假设”标题中发表了 7 篇文章、23 篇“问题与范式”文章和 55 篇“评论文章”。近10年“Review essay”的比例有所下降，去年我们最终发表了“Hypotheses”25篇、“Problems & Paradigms”文章46篇、“Review essay”35篇。BioEssays 中这些不同的标题因此填补了我们的作者——希望我们的读者——非常欣赏的利基。作为主编，我将继续发表有趣的假设和前瞻性评论的传统，以便为发布“突破界限的想法”提供一个论坛，正如我们的标语所说。

安德鲁将他的最后一篇社论命名为“成为一名真正的编辑是多么荣幸”。我非常感谢他这些年来的指导，也感谢他教会了我什么是“真正的编辑”。现在，我很荣幸能够继续他的工作并接任这样一个受人尊敬的出版物的主编。

克斯汀·布拉赫霍尔德

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