Editor-in-Chief thanks the associate editors, editorial board and referees

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team in Wiley, I would like to thank those who have contributed to the continued success of the IEJ in 2023. I would like to start by acknowledging and thanking the Associate Editors for their outstanding contribution during the year and their ongoing support to me as Editor-in-Chief:

Sebastian Bürklein, Gustavo De-Deus, Ikhlas El-karim, Michael Hülsmann, Francesco Mannocci, Paul McCabe, Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu, Ronald Ordinola-Zapata, Ove Peters and Emi Shimizu. I would also like to specially thank Christopher Sexton (consultant statistical advisor) for his statistical support throughout the year and Ronald Ordinola-Zapata, Prasanna Neelakantan and Maria Teresa Arias-Moliz for their guest editorship on the ‘Next-generation antimicrobial strategies in endodontics’ special issue.

I would also like to thank all the other members of the Editorial Board:

Vivek Aggarwal, Ana Arias, Hany Ahmed, Vasudev Ballal, Lars Bjørndal, Christos Boutsioukis, Bruno Cavalcanti, Luis Chavez de Pas, Zhi Chen, Bunsan Chong, Gary Cheung, Elizabetta Cotti, Roeland De Moor, Ashraf ElAyouti, Jose de Figueiredo, Giampiero Rossi-Fedele, Kerstin Galler, Brenda Gomes, Markus Haapasalo, Jiiang-Huei Jeng, Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Lise-Lotte Kirkevang, Anil Kishen, Gabriel Krastl, Thomas Kvist, Paul Lambrechts, Chun-Pin Lin, Teresa Arias-Moliz, Prasanna Neelakantan, Mohammad Nekoofar, Takashi Okiji, Shanon Patel, Masoud Parirokh, Carlo Prati, Dan Rechenberg, Tina Rödig, Francesc Abella Sans, Edgar Schäfer, Juanjo Segura-Egea, Hagay Shemesh, Ya Shen, Emmanuel Silva, Erick Souza, Nessrin Taha, H. Tao, Leo Tjäderhane, Phil Tomson, Marco Versiani, Ronald Weiger, Matthias Widbiller, John Whitworth, Victoria Yu, Matt Zehnder, and Chengfei Zhang.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank the panel of referees for their critical appraisal of manuscripts and expert insight:

Silva, Emmanuel; Segura-Egea, Juan; Jakovljevic, Aleksandar; Ballal, Vasudev; Aggarwal, Vivek; Marka, Nicholas; Rossi-Fedele, Giampiero; Versiani, Marco; Al-Nuaimi, Nassr; Huang, Dingming; Palma, Paulo; Parirokh, Masoud; Jeng, Jiiang-Huei; Nosrat, Ali; Widbiller, Matthias; Yu, Victoria; Arias-Moliz, Maria Teresa; Arias, Ana; Gaudin, Alexis; Chen, Zhi; Meng, Liuyan; Cushley, Siobhan; El-Karim, Ikhlas; Krastl, Gabriel; Okiji, Takashi; Abella Sans, Francesc; Ahmed, Hany Mohamed Aly; Gomes Brenda; Sousa-Neto, Manoel; Weiger, Roland; Bhuva, Bhavin; Bjørndal, Lars; Fransson, Helena; Kahler, William; Shen, Ya; Donnermeyer, David; Keles, Ali; Neelakantan, Prasanna; Rahim, Noushad; Zhang, Chengfei; Boutsioukis, Christos; Del Fabbro, Massimo; Fouad, Ashraf; Hosseinpour, Sepanta; Kawashima, Nobuyuki; Schäfer, Edgar; Shemesh, Hagay; Silva, Lea; Souza, Erick; Taha, Nessrin; Cotti, Elisabetta; Dissanayaka, Waruna; Kvist, Thomas; Martins, Jorge; Saber, Shehabeldin; Tsesis, Igor; Adorno, Carlos; Cavalcanti, Bruno; Donnelly, Aisling; Haug, Sivakami; Jayaraman, Jayakumar; Keskin, Cangul; Lin, Fei; Meire, Maarten; Patel, Neha; Patel, Shanon; Sexton, Christopher; Shah, Pratik; Tomson, Phillip; Tzanetakis, Giorgos; Zehnder, Matthias; Zheng, Lisha; Ali, Ahmed; Alovisi, Mario; Aminoshariae, Anita; Chevalier, Valérie; Elnaghy, Amr; Hashem, Ahmed; Herbst, Sascha; Lima, Bruno; Schmalz, Gottfried; Silva, Renato; Tanalp, Jale; Taşdemir, Tamer; Testarelli, Luca; van der Waal, Suzette; Virdee, Satnam; Ye, Zhou; Amin, Suzan; Awawdeh, Lama; Chang, Mei-Chi; Connert, Thomas; Dammaschke, Till; Dong, Yanmei; Grande, Nicola Maria; He, Wen-Xi; Hülsmann, Michael; Jacinto, Rogério; Kannan, Thirumulu; Karataş, Ertuğrul; Kim, Hyeon Cheol; Kirkevang, Lise-Lotte; Kruse, Casper; Li, Zehan; Love, Robert; Martinho, Frederico; Milasin, Jelena; Murray, Peter; Olivieri, Juan; Osathanon, Thanaphum; Primus, Carolyn; Rhodes, John; Rosa, Vinicius; Taschieri, Silvio; Xu, Chun; Yassen, Ghaeth; Zamparini, Fausto; Ahmad, Paras; Aksel, Hacer; Andrukhov, Oleh; Barthel-Zimmer, Claudía; Bitter, Kerstin; Bottino, Marco; Chen, Fa-Ming; Chompu-inwai, Papimon; Chong, Bun San; Cintra, Luciano; Dhar, Vineet; Faria, Gisele; Farmakis, Eleftherios Terry; Fernandez, Eduardo; Foschi, Federico; Haapasalo, Markus; Han, Dr Pingping; Kaval, Mehmet; Kim, Sunil; Koller, Garrit; Min, Kyung-San; Natanasabapathy, Velmurugan; Ordinola-Zapata, Ronald; Ormiga, Fabíola; Petridis, Xenos; Rödig, Tina; Rosen, Eyal; Saavedra, Flavia; Shibukawa, Yoshiyuki; Spin-Neto, Rubens; Suresh, Nandini; Takahashi, Yusuke; Tanomaru-Filho, Mário; Tordik, Patricia; Umer, Fahad; Whitworth, John; Zahran, Shatha; Abramovitz, Itzhak; Al-Qudah, Aladdin; Alcalde, Murilo; Allihaibi, Marwa; Alves, Flávio; Aral, Kubra; Ather, Amber; Austin, Rupert; Bakhsh, Abdulaziz; Belladonna, Felipe; Bose, Rahul; Botero, Tatiana; Bürklein, Sebastian; Camilleri, Josette; Cathro, Peter; Caviedes-Bucheli, Javier; Chawla, Amrita; Cui, Li; Diegritz, Christian; Doğramacı, Esma; Duarte, Marco; Edwards, David; Elmsmari, Firas; Fan, Bing; Farrugia, Cher; Galler, Kerstin; Gambarini, Gianluca; Gao, Yuan; Georgiou, Athina; Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Jarad, Fadi; Jaramillo, David; Karabucak, Bekir; Kedjarune-Leggat, Ureporn; Khan, Asma; Kishen, Anil; Lambrechts, Paul; Lin, Shaul; Linsuwanont, Pairoj; Liu, Jun; Maret, Delphine; Martin-Gonzalez, Jenifer; McClory, Mary; Morgental, Renata; Morsczeck, Christian; Mota de Almeida, Fernando José; Nagendrababu, Venkateshbabu; Nassar, Mohannad; Nekoofar, Mohammad; Ohshima, Hayato; Okamoto, Motoki; Paula-Silva, Francisco; Peciuliene, Vytaute; Pedano, Mariano Simon; Pimentel, Tiago; Provenzano, Jose; Reymus, Marcel; Rôças, Isabela; Saber, Shehab; Saghiri, Mohammad Ali; Santos, Ana Paula; Santos, Pablo; Sasaki, Hajime; Schulze, Ralf; Schwendicke, Falk; Sculean, Anton; Setzer, Frank; Simon, Stephane; Sipert, Carla; Soares, Diana; Srinivasan, Narasimhan; Stavropoulos, Andreas; Stevens, Roy; Tartari, Talita; Toledano-Osorio, Manuel; Topçuoğlu, Hüseyin.

Vorster, Martin; Wu, Buling; Xu, Jiake; Yu, Jinhua; Zeitlin, Benjamin; Zhang, Shu-Dong and Zhu, Lingxin.

The author has no conflict of interest to report.