Keynotes from the New Editor-in-Chief

Keynotes from the New Editor-in-Chief of <b><i>Acta Cytologica</i></b> and ‘Announcement of First Time <b><i>Cytojournal</i></b> Impact Factor for 2012 Coincides with <b><i>Cytojournal</i></b> Decade Celebration (2004-2013)'

“…I agree with you that editors of other cytology journals are aware of the importance of IF and want to increase the numbers of citations in their journals not by self-citations or manipulation, but rather by increasing the quality and variety of the contents [2]. As you have correctly recommended, encouraging high-quality articles such as original articles, reviews and meta-analyses, stipulating strict criteria for case reports and limiting letters should improve the IF [2].…”

“…I would like to correlate it with your editorial in Acta Cytologica [2]. I would like to share my reservations with you and highlight my skepticism at the excitement expressed by Drs.…”

“…As you have correctly recommended, encouraging high-quality articles such as original articles, reviews and meta-analyses, stipulating strict criteria for case reports and limiting letters should improve the IF [2]. IF should encourage ‘fair' competition between cytology journals, but should not determine their contents [3].…”

2017: Sixty Years of <b><i>Acta Cytologica</i></b>

“…Of the 6 issues of 2016, 2 are special issues, guest-edited by Pio Zeppa and Adhemar Longatto-Filho, who deserve our special thanks for their major effort and outstanding input to complete these assignments. Finally, the number of single case reports (Novel Insights from Clinical Practice) submitted has declined steadily in 2016, in accordance with the new publication policy announced in 2013 [2]. …”

Repeated Fine-Needle Aspiration Improves the Diagnostics in Selected Atypia of Undetermined Significance/Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance Cases, but Further Studies Are Needed

“…Thyroid cancer is a long-term disease, and so a long-term follow-up of nonsurgically verified AUS/FLUS cases is needed. The data from single centers are awaited for meta-analyses [9], which will shed more light on the risk of malignancy in the AUS/FLUS category.…”