“…Since the first special issue on robust analysis of complex data was published in CSDA (Croux et al, 2013) four years ago, the journal continued to attract a considerable body of work on different aspects of robustness in complex data analysis. These include Alfons et al (2016), Cui et al (2016), Hämäläinen (2016), Kirschstein et al (2016), Martinez andGray (2016), Salibián-Barrera et al (2016) and Tarr et al (2016), the seven articles in a special issue on advances in data mining and robust statistics as well as articles in regular issues such as Atkinson et al (2016), Boente and Pardo-Fernández (2016), Chee and Wang (2016), Cheng (2016), García-Escudero et al (2016), Gutiérrez et al (2016), Huang et al (2016), Leung et al (2016), Li et al (2016), Mount et al (2016), Xiang et al (2016), Aeberhard et al (2017), Agostinelli et al (2017), Bianco and Spano (2017), Kaffine and Davis (2017), Maronna andYohai (2017), Moradi Rekabdarkolaee et al (2016), Serfling and Wijesuriya (2017) and Song et al (2017), to just focus on publications since 2016. We encourage all readers to continue to choose CSDA as one of their main outlets to share their latest achievements in the various important areas of robust statistics.…”