From 2003 to 2009 he was Editor in Chief of the EJSO, the European Journal of Surgical Oncology, and from 2008 to 2010 he sat on the Executive Board of COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics. In 2009, he was invited to join the independent and international Scopus Content Selection Advisory Board as the Subject Chair for Medicine. He has made a significant contribution to the work of the board and particularly to the introduction of a common and universal strategy on Publication Ethics and Malpractice, which is now applied to all journals on accession to the Scopus system.