Editorial. : The journal at age 5.

The journal () was conceived to serve at the border zone between the fields of cognition, brain vascular function, cerebrovascular disease and neurodegeneration. An umbrella term often used for this spectrum of disorders or conditions is Vascular contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID). The journal was launched in 2020. Since then has published 146 articles and achieved listing on PubMed, Web of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals and Scopus. A Web of Science journal impact factor of 1.9 for 2023 has recently been released. The journal is online-only, with Gold Open Access. The number of full-text downloads is high, averaging 1200 per article.