Mid-June has always been a period of great hope or perhaps fear for editors of medical journals. This is the time of the year when new figures for impact factors are released from the ISI Web of Knowledge. However, most editors these days have a good insight into the development of this very much debated instrument for evaluation of a journal's relative importance for the distribution of scientific information. By consultations of the continuous updating of citation figures for each individual article of their journals in either Web of Science (Thompson & Reuter) or SCOPUS (Elsevier) it is possible to make fairly good estimates of the figures to come. It was therefore not a great surprise to us when the new impact factor figure this time had increased to a record high 0.733. This also means that we have now increased our impact figure for five consecutive years (Figure 1). Unfortunately, we are afraid that there will be a dip next year, since the direct link to our home page at PubMed has been insufficient for almost a year. That has now been corrected in parallel with the connection of our journal to PubMed Central.
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机译：6月中旬一直是医学期刊编辑充满希望或恐惧的时期。这是一年中从ISI Web of Knowledge发布影响因子的新数据的时间。但是，如今，大多数编辑人员对这种备受争议的评估期刊对科学信息分配的相对重要性的工具的开发有了很好的了解。通过咨询Web of Science（Thompson＆Reuter）或SCOPUS（Elsevier）中其期刊每篇文章的引文数字的持续更新，可以对即将到来的数字做出相当不错的估计。因此，当这次新的影响因子数字升至创纪录的0.733时，我们并不感到意外。这也意味着我们现在已经连续五年增加了影响力数字（图1）。不幸的是，我们担心明年会有所下滑，因为直接链接到我们PubMed主页的链接已经不足一年了。现在，我们的期刊与PubMed Central的连接已得到纠正。
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