The editors of Epidemiology have suggested that the impact factor does not influence where
authors choose to submit papers, based on a before-and-after comparison of the ratio of …

During the last few years, we have published several editorials drawing attention to the dark
side of the impact factor. 1–3 As scientists, we are concerned that the rules for deriving …

The number of submissions to the American Journal of Epidemiology has continued to
increase over time and was 1,664 in 2010 (1–6). A total of 353 contributions were published …

The information age has brought radical changes to scientific publishing. There are far more
ways to get a piece of research out into the world, including non–peer-reviewed sources …

Fifteen years ago many editors and academics had never heard of impact factors. Now they
are obsessed with them. When I was first editor of the BMJ in 1991 I would attend the …

Asimple way to increase EPIDEMIOLOGY's impact factor is to publish discussions on the
impact factor. Let me explain. A year ago we published a commentary1 on the shortcomings …

A comment on this article appears in" Reply: Externalities and citation practices." Ann
Epidemiol. 2016 Feb; 26 (2): 161-2. This is a comment on" Externalities and article citations …

Do you know what 'entelechy'means? It was in the title of a manuscript IJE received and it
got me wondering what it meant and why the authors had used such an obscure word in …

Lash et al. Epidemiology• Volume 29, Number 1, January 2018 2| www. epidem. com© 2017
Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. was located for the funding source, the …

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in and determinants of the number of authors in clinical
studies. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We analyzed determinants of the number of …