The ambition of theEuropean Respiratory Journal: chapter 2

Last year, in my opening editorial as incoming Chief Editor, I stated that “the ambition of the Journal is […] to be the best possible publication available to help, inform and open new horizons to junior and established healthcare professionals and scientists who have an interest in (respiratory) medicine and science” [1]. At the beginning of 2014, I would like to share with you some thoughts about the future of our Journal. The Editorial Board recognises that impact factor remains, among other criteria, an important indicator of quality in our academic world [1–3]. In this regard, we were delighted when the Journal’s impact factor reached an unprecedented level of 6.355 …