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Nephrol Dial Transplant Vol. 20 No. 1 © ERA-EDTA 2005; all rights reserved
Special Feature
Report from the Editorial Office
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| Introduction |
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In July 2004, we began our last year of a 6 year tenure as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT). The time has come to look back on what we have achieved, to describe the present status and to take a look at the future.
| Past achievements |
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Readership of NDT has increased steadily over the years, as shown by progressively increasing subscription rates and also by the progressive increase in hit rates since NDT became accessible on the Internet (High Wire Press).
We have become the leading European journal in the field of nephrology in terms of Impact Factor. This is issued once yearly by the International Science Institute (ISI) in the USA. It is based on the number of times articles from a given journal are cited in the two years preceding the year of estimation. When we took over, the Impact Factor for NDT was
| Present status |
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Manuscript flow and evaluation
Acceptance rate
Impact Factor
E-toc registrations, online access and hit rates
Size of the journal
Support by industry
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