New Editors-In-Chief And Editorial Board

The Review of Regional Research has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. The number of submissions per year has risen to more than seven times the number of five years ago. Starting from this year, there is an official impact factor for the journal. The publication frequency will increase to four issues per year from 2024. The success of the journal is tightly related to the people in the editorial team. We had changes in the team of Editors-in-Chief as well as in the Editorial Board this year. Therefore, this is the right time to thank the former Editors-in-Chief as well as all members of the Editorial Board, who helped improving the journal during the last years. The Editorial Board members helped us with good strategic advice, organized successful special issues, acquired high quality submissions, and kindly acted as reviewers. We are very grateful to all of the former and remaining board members and we warmly welcome new Board members, who joined the journal this year. We use this opportunity to express our deep gratitude to Georg Hirte, who stepped down from the editorial team after ten years of service to the journal. In his role as Editor-in-Chief, Georg Hirte successfully initialised and guided the process of internationalising the journal and improving its visibility and attractiveness. The whole advancement of the journal in the recent years is based on his original initiative and vision. Over the past decade, Georg Hirte formed the Review of Regional Research into an internationally established, well-ranked, interdisciplinary journal in the field of regional science. It is always a pleasure to work with him and we are very thankful for all the effort he put into the journal.