Welcome to the year 2019

The Visual Computer Journal is going well although unfortunately, its impact factor has decreased from 1.468 to 1.036. It is difficult to know why the citations have lowered, but one of the reasons might be that we have received more regular submissions during the year 2018. The Visual Computer has receivedmore than 800 submissions in 2018, 11.5%more than in 2017. This is a tremendous achievement from authors, associate editors and reviewers, and it may be more difficult to keep the impact factor with so many papers. Each submitted paper is handled by an associate editor (AE) who finds at least 3 reviewers to evaluate a paper. I take the opportunity to warmly thank the associate editors as well as all reviewers listed at the end of the issue for their tremendous and invaluable work. Throughout 2018, some associate editors have left the editorial board of the Visual Computer. I would like to thank them for their great work and contribution. Here is the list of the associate editors who have left the editorial board: