A decade of innovation to deepen the understanding of infectious diseases of poverty and foster their control and elimination

[...]in order to better understand the real impact of the journal, we carefully examined whether the journal’s original goals have been achieved, such as the recognition and reinforcement of the nexus of research outputs on health in the field of poverty alleviation, food security, sustainable agriculture, social justice, economic prosperity, and environmental protection [9]. A particular aspect of the journal that merits highlighting is the publication of thematic series and article collections. [...]far, a total of 34 thematic series have been published with 441 articles, meaning an average of 3 thematic series and more than 40 articles per year. [...]the journal has been building an academic community working on infectious diseases of poverty, insisting on the value of integrating transdisciplinarity and systems thinking [10, 11]. In the near future, the scope of the journal will continue to focus on One Health research, with the following priorities: (i) control of ancient NTDs, study of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and better understand the interface between humans, animals, and the environment; (ii) research on new tools and strategies for the diagnosis, control and elimination of communicable and non-communicable diseases, such as the application of sequencing technologies to detect and predict new emerging pathogens; (iii) identification of research gaps in currently known scientific evidence, and connection with policy formulation and implementation; (iv) boosting more programmes on vaccine-preventable diseases in LMICs; and (v) standardization of publications in Scoping Review and Policy Brief that are expected to bridge and help communications between researchers and policy-makers, and to promote the translation of research findings to improve health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment, thus embracing planetary health [15].