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The journal impact factors for the year 2004 have recently been announced. The impact factor reflects the number of citations in 2004 to the number of original papers and reviews published in Thorax in 2002 and 2003. We are very pleased to let all our readers know that the impact factor for Thorax has risen from 4.188 in 2003 to 5.040 in 2004. Thorax is the second highest ranked respiratory journal in terms of impact factor, behind the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine . The impact factors for the main respiratory journals are listed in table 1.
Table 1 Journal impact factors for 2004: respiratory journals
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 8.123 |
Thorax | 5.040 |
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology | 4.175 |
American Journal of Physiology... |