Clinical Autonomic Research: welcome to 2024

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Welcome to the first issue of Clinical Autonomic Research for 2024. It is with great pleasure that I take over from Guillaume Lamotte, who has been serving as the Managing Editor for the last two years. Building on the excellent work of Alberto Palma, Guillaume has helped propel the status of CAR to new heights: for the first time it is now in the first quartile (Q1) of all journals publishing in the category of Clinical Neurology (rank 33/212; 15.6%) and in the category of Neurosciences (rank 47/272; 17.3%). Moreover, our Impact Factor is the highest it has ever been—5.80. And while the Impact Factor is a flawed instrument, if you have a good one then we are surely going to flaunt it, right? Did I tell you that our impact factor is now 5.80? When one recalls that some 20 years ago it was only 0.83, we certainly have come a long way! We are seeing more submissions than ever but we also reject about two-thirds of all manuscripts to ensure that only the highest quality papers are published in CAR. Moreover, readers have been accessing full-text articles over 300,000 times in 2023, double that seen in 2020. …