“…9 It is no doubt that these three papers on the PFA-100 paved the way for the manufacturer to gain regulatory approval/clearance for the instrument in several countries. One of my own publications around the PFA-100, written as a tribute to Eberhard Mammen Of course, since online activity has overtaken print usage, the collation of highly specific themes perhaps becomes less imperative, and so STH now also collates issues with broader themes around thrombosis, [27][28][29] and laboratory diagnostics and bleeding, [30][31][32][33][34][35] as well as material related to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). [36][37][38] It is unlikely that I will lead the production of another 3,500 papers in STH, but in the interim, let us celebrate the first 50 years of STH, and its place in the field.…”