Abstract
This is the last issue under the present team's Editorialship and we would like to thank our dedicated readership, authors, reviewers and the members of the Editorial Board sincerely for their support and encouragement. Over the last three years, we were able to steadily improve and strengthen POI's scientific content leading to its wider recognition in the field of rehabilitation. This increased recognition is reflected by more than a 100% rise in manuscript submissions and a significant growth in terms of the diversity of the material submitted. The recent increase in impact factor is also reflective of some of these improvements. We also transitioned the Journal from a manual to a contemporary on-line submission system that – despite initial hiccups – proved to be beneficial in streamlining the process for all involved: authors, reviewers, managing and production editors, printers and us, the Editorial Team. In addition, the Associated Editors worked tirelessly to recruit new reviewers enlarging our reviewer pool significantly allowing for a better fit between experts and the manuscript under review.
With this issue, we are handing over to the new Editor, Dr. Sarah Curran and her team and we wish her good luck and great success for the future!
The Editorial Team
Margrit-R. Meier, PhD, Editor
Deirdre Desmond, PhD, Associate Editor
Laurence Kenney, PhD, Associate Editor
Dick H. Plettenburg, PhD, Associate Editor
Reviewer acknowledgement
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the following people for their expert assistance in evaluating submissions to Prosthetics and Orthotics International between October 2009 and September 2010. We greatly appreciate your time, effort and dedication, and extend our heartfelt thanks for your continued support.
The Editorial Team
Margrit-R. Meier, PhD, Editor
Deirdre Desmond, PhD, Associate Editor
Laurence Kenney, PhD, Associate Editor
Dick H. Plettenburg, PhD, Associate Editor
Lydia Abdul Latif
Peter Adamczyk
Merkur Alimusaj
Jan Andrysek
Hans Arendzen
Timothy Bach
Umesh A Badrising
Birol Balaban
Joaquin A Barrios
Elaine Biddiss
Siegmar Blumentritt
Annemarijke Boonstra
Joline Bosmans
Roy Bowers
John Bowker
Daan Bregman
Arjan Buis
Jaap Buurke
Helena Burger
Mike Callaghan
Hector Casanova
Paul Charlton
Laura Coffey
Michael Devlin
Peter van Diggele
Pieter U. Dijkstra
Matthew B Dobbs
Maggie Donovan Hall
Burkhard Drerup
Cornelis H Emmelot
David Ewins
Stefania Fatone
Reinoud Karel B Fengler
Saeed Forganhy
Pamela Gallagher
Steven Gard
Christiane Gauthier-Gagnon
Carsten Gebert
Marion Geboers
Mark Geil
Brian Glaister
Yannis Goulermas
Alena Grabowski
Imelda de Groot
Jaap Harlaar
Craig Heckathorne
Edsko Hekman
Emma Henderson
David Henderson-Slater
David Hevey
Cheriel Hofstad
Elizabeth T Hsiao-Wecksler
Stephen W. Hutchins
Norman Jacobs
Dennis Janisse
Gustav Magnus Jarl
Louise Johnson
Kathryn Jackson
Tasos Karakostas
Laurence Kenney
Kenton Kaufman
Robert S. Kistenberg
Glenn Klute
Toshiki Kobayashi
Peter Kyberd
Ludger Lastring
Edward Lemaire
Aaron Leung
Joan Leung
Harmen van der Linde
Mariëtta van der Linden
Yves Losier
Malcolm MacLachlan
Renee Mackenzie
Robiony Massimo
Tomaž Maver
Anthony McGarry
Vicky McManus
John Michael
Laura Miller
William Miller
Christopher Morris
Sara J Mulroy
Marc Nederhand
Stefano Negrini
Sinead Ni Mhurchadha
Karen J Nolan
Frans Nollet
Liselotte Norling Hermansson
Elaine Owen
Fabrizio Patane
John Paul
Jon Pearlman
Sam Phillips
Helene Pillet
Mark Pitkin
Peter Poetsma
Martyn Porter
Klaas Postema
Sigal PortnoyBoris Prilutsky
Nerrolyn Ramstrand
Michele Raya
Kim Reisinger
Jim Richards
Emily Ridgewell
James Robb
Clemens Rommers
François Routhier
Brian L. Ruhe
Paula Rushton
Joan E. Sanders
Thomas Schmalz
Ava Segal
Ruud Selles
Sandra Sexton
Björn Sommer
Frank Sup
Shawn Swanson
Caroline Stewart
Matthew Taylor
Martin Twiste
Jim Usherwood
Natalie Vanicek
Theo Verhoeff
Judith Visser
Stuart Warden
Stephen Wegener
Richard Weir
Nicole Weiss
Martin Wessling
Man-Sang Wong
Man Wong
Yeongchi Wu
Charles Wang
Takehiko Yamaji
Diana Zidarova