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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;33:141-142. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.12.008
Copyright © 2008, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier. All rights reserved.
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Editorial

Impact Factor 2.106 reached by the European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery on its 20th anniversary in 2007

Ludwig K. von Segesser*

Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +41 21 314 22 79; fax: +41 21 314 22 78. (Email: ludwig.von-segesser@chuv.hospvd.ch). (URL: http://www.cardiovasc.net/).

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The European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) is a story of success, and all readers, authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, and their respective collaborators, deserve recognition for their outstanding contributions. As a matter of fact, the European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery was founded by the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery in 1987. Professor Hans Borst acted as founding editor, at that time in Hannover, and Professor Marko Turina in Zurich succeeded him in 1993, whereas the current editor was appointed in the year 2000.

There are various ways to measure the performance of a scientific journal. The number of submissions (Fig. 1 ) tells something about the popularity of a specific journal for the authors, which in turn depends on various factors like the speed of assessment (72 days in 2007). Typically, the first original article published in EJCTS in 2005 [1] was submitted 6 months earlier, whereas the corresponding time periods . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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