Editorial
Journal impact factors for 2000: Thorax flying yet higher
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The journal impact factors for 2000 have recently been released
and the good news for Thorax is that it has
again increased its impact factor from 3.44 in 19991 to
3.98, and it has narrowed the gap considerably on its main two
competitors
the American Thoracic Society publications. The position
of Thorax in terms of impact factor relative
to other selected specialist journals of similar complementary
interests is shown in table 1. What is the reason for this further
improvement? We think that it is due to a number of factors. Our fast
review process2 and rapid publication undoubtedly helps,
but the most important factor is the quality of the contributions that
we receive from you, the contributors. We have been very fortunate to
receive a number of excellent original papers for the last two years.
In addition, we have benefited from having several authoritative
guidelines in the journal,3 a number of
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