Prof. Roger Francis' reflections of editing the journal.

The author provides his view on his involvement, from being an author to the editor in chief, with the "Age and Ageing" journal. He underlines the progress of the journal such as reduced interval between submission, review and online publication; introduction of open access publication facility and introduction of ‘e-letters,’ a system of online response to editors for the readers. He also offers thanks to his colleagues and high quality submissions for the growing impact factor of the journal.