Dear colleagues, friends!

2023 year is ending!

The 13^th year of our journal's life is coming to an end. These have been interesting and difficult years. At first, the idea of ​​creating first professional electronic magazine in the country appeared and was discussed by me, Natalya Sergeevna Serova and Mikhail Semenovich Kesler. We became the official founders of REJR magazine. Over time, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University was included to the founders of magazine. There were many doubts  whether a professional magazine only in electronic form published (or rather distributed) would be of any interest. I remember well how difficult it was to publish issues of the magazine for the first two years. Not many scientists and researchers trusted us with their materials. The authors posed the question this way: “Are you included in the Higher Attestation Commission list? If not, then sorry, but we need an official publication. However, the magazine gradually gained professional “weight” and more and more high-quality articles began to appear. The fact that until the end of 2013, all magazine covers were made individually helped a little too. The author of these covers was Mikhail Semenovich Kesler. One of the covers was prepared by Natalya Sergeevna Serova. These covers caught the attention of readers and got good reviews!

All these years, a small group of employees from the Radiology department of Sechenov University has been working on the issues of the journal, and the editorial board and editorial council include many leading scientists from our country and from abroad. I am grateful to the First Deputy of Editor-in-Chief, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Natalya Sergeevna Serova, for the enthusiasm and enormous work that she puts into creating issues all these years. Great assistance is provided by the Deputy of Editor-in-Chief, Professor R.F. Bakhtiozin and S.A. Kondrashin, professor of the department V.P. Sedov and A.V. Arablinsky, associate professors O.Yu. Pavlova and A.A. Babkova, our assistants and our graduates A.A. Lisavin, A.S. Abnizov, D.A. Vershinin, E.V. Evseeva and many others. All of them either take an active part in proofreading, translation into English, layout of issues or actively participate in reviewing some of the articles. And, of course, a tribute to my friend who left us, the famous professor Anatoly Ilyich Shekhter, who was the Deputy of Editor-in-Chief and invested a lot of effort in popularizing of the journal.

Now that the journal has received wide recognition, is cited in the Russian Science Citation Index, Scopus, and is included in the list of Higher Attestation Commission journals in which it is necessary to publish materials on candidate and doctoral dissertations, we can state that we have achieved our goals.

Life moves forward and it’s time to give way to young and active creators! By agreement with the founders and by unanimous vote of the editorial board members, Professor Natalya Sergeevna Serova has been announced as the Editor-in-Chief of REJR since 2024!

I am absolutely sure that the magazine is celebrating its 14^th year of publication in the prime of its creative powers and with new ideas!

I express my sincere gratitude to all members of the editorial board and editorial council, everyone who constantly works on our project, all the authors and readers.

I am confident that our journal will continue to meet the high requirements of a professional scientific publication and we will all keep the quality of the journal at the highest level!

Sincerely,

Editor-in-Chief,

Honoured Scientist of Rusian Federation,

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences,

Sergey K. Ternovoy.