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138 Int'l J. Legal Med. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/injlegame138 and id is 1 raw text is: International Journal of Legal Medicine (2024) 138:1 https://doi.org/l0.1007/s00414-023-03145-4 EDITORRIAL Thank you, Professor Heidi Pfeiffer! Andreas Schmeling' Published online: 5 December 2023 © The Author(s) 2023 Dear Colleagues, I am writing to inform you that Prof. Heidi Pfeiffer has recently announced her decision to step down from her role as Editor-in- ChiefoftheInternationalJournalofLegalMedicine. Since2009, she has admirably led the journal's Editorial board. During her 15-year tenure, the journal has developed very successfully both quantitatively and qualitatively. The number of articles published annually has more than doubled. In terms of impact, the Interna- tional Journal of Legal Medicine has maintained its position as one of the world's leading medicolegal journals. This is an opportune moment to express our gratitude for her dedicated and outstanding contributions, her unwavering and supportive guidance to the Editorial board members and reviewers, and her acute leadership. To ensure the seamless continuation of the journal's excellence, Prof. Tony Fracasso will succeed Prof. Heidi Pfeiffer as the new Editor-in-Chief, sharing the responsibili- ties alongside me. Acknowledging the growing specialization within legal medicine and its subdisciplines, we have chosen to enlist the aid of distinguished specialists to serve as associate editors: Prof. Jens Amendt for the section ((Entomology» Prof. Volker Auwarter for the section ((Toxicology» Prof. Eugenia Cunha for the section ((Anthropology» Prof. Sabine Lutz-Bonengel for the section ((Genetics» We firmly believe that this revamped editorial team is well-equipped to effectively lead the journal in the forth- coming years. Warm regards, Andreas Schmeling. Funding Open Access funding enabled andorganized by Projekt DEAL. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attri- bution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adapta- tion, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativeconmons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Andreas Schmeling Andreas.Schmeling@ukmuenster.de Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Munster, Munster, Germany Springer