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EDITORIAL
Annual report
Annual report October 2002 to September 2003
Thorax Editorial Office, 17 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor J A Wedzicha
; j.a.wedzicha@qmul.ac.uk
Keywords: Annual report
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In January 2003 the Editorship of Thorax changed and it is with great privilege and considerable awe and trepidation that we took over as Editors.1 Under the editorship of John Britton and Alan Knox Thorax has achieved high standards and increased its impact factor, which now stands at 4.078 (fig 1
). Thorax is currently the most successful European respiratory journal and the third among all respiratory journals (behind the two American Thoracic Society publications). The readership of Thorax, together with the whole respiratory community, owes an enormous debt of gratitude to John and Alan and the previous editorial team for their outstanding achievement.
[in a new window] Figure 1 Thorax impact factor 1996–2002.
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With the advent of the new editorial team, Thorax changed to an online submission system using Bench>Press.5 Although there were some initial difficulties with the change over from a paper based system to complete online submission, this is now
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