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Editorial
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Mid-summer can be an anxious time for editors since this brings the new list of Impact Factors that increasingly serve as markers of worthiness in academic publishing. Ours is stable—rising from 7.535 (2005) to 7.617 (2006 - current), having reached a peak (to date) of 8.201 in 2004 following a steady rise from 7.122 in 2002. Even when topping the list of journals specializing in clinical neuroscience, we were careful not to be self-congratulatory, sensing that pride has a nasty habit of coming before a fall. Our sister journals are evidently not so reticent: Lancet Neurology acquired an enviable Impact Factor of 12.167 based on exclusive publication of review articles but has seen a fall to 9.479 as the effect of also including original papers starts to make itself felt; at 8.051, Annals of Neurology has now substantially reduced the number of papers published. Should Brain play games in chasing
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