Five good reasons to read (and cite) theERJ

Abstract

Now 5 years into the job and with 1 more year to go, your Editors are pleased to update you once again through an editorial that has developed into a regular column summarising the state of your Journal, our reflections on the job and the current developments. The leadership of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) has clearly recognised the relevance and impact of the European Respiratory Journal ( ERJ ) and the other allied society publications, which has resulted in the formulation of the first publication strategy around what we believe is the flagship publication, the ERJ . This has also helped us, as Editors, to critically review the current status of the ERJ and has allowed us to formulate our own mission and aims for the coming years. To make a long story short: we believe the ERJ is doing very well indeed at the moment, but as our readers and critical audience, you obviously deserve to know why we are so untypically confident in this statement. At least five good reasons come to mind when we think about recent developments within the ERJ that have contributed to its wider acceptance amongst those of you who search for novel scientific information, to use it for your research and cite the papers presented, and those of you who “simply” read the ERJ to keep up to date with a rapidly evolving clinical field. The first and probably most straightforward …

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