To follow the pathways of our authors, rather than just their scholarship, would seem to be a more exact indicator for locating EASTS in the great tide of scholarship in this field, notably after our inclusion in some of the leading indexing metrics. We are grateful to all the authors whose work makes EASTS a unique journal representing East Asia. In turn, EASTS hopes to be an intellectual anchor for them. We very much appreciate our location in East Asia and welcome scholars to come and be inspired by this region.