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Rheumatology 2005 44(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh516
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Rheumatology Vol. 44 No. 1 © British Society for Rheumatology 2005; all rights reserved

EDITORIAL

‘Onwards and Upwards’

Richard Watts and Serena Cubie

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Over the past 12 months Rheumatology has made very steady progress and has achieved some significant milestones. During 2005 we aim to build on this to both maintain and improve our performance further.

In 2004 the impact factor for Rheumatology rose again to 3.760. For the first time, we have received ~1000 submissions and these are of increasing quality; this represents a 50% increase over the past 3 years. Of these, 40% are from outside Europe, reflecting the increasing international appeal of Rheumatology. The increasing number and quality of submissions means that we are asking referees to be ever more critical of manuscripts to enable the journal to continually raise the standards manuscripts need to reach to be accepted.

Our investment in electronic online manuscript processing together . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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