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TheEuropean Respiratory Review: mature, expanding and targeting new challenges

“…The transfer of manuscript submissions from one journal to the other has already been made easier and faster, and the ERR editorial board will work closely with the ERJ Chief Editor Professor Marc Humbert and Professor Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan, now ERJ deputy editor, who are also members of the ERR editorial board [3,14,20]. Correspondence articles referring to previously published ERR articles and Letters to the editor, corresponding to very short reports or to highlyselected case studies that harbour educational excellence or particular relevance for diagnosis or management, now have distinct formats, in line with the ERJ.…”

“…As all ERR articles are free to access from the first day of publication, authors are assured full and rapid dissemination of knowledge, as illustrated by the exponential increase in the number of visits to the ERR website (http://err. ersjournals.com) and the number of downloaded ERR articles worldwide [3]. As an illustration, the top 10 most read articles since November 2010 have totalled more than 76,458 full-text downloads [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

The goal is to go further and do better: but how?

“…Numerous articles have in fact already been downloaded and the ERR is now widely read on-line, proving the ability of the ERR to stay ahead of the curve. The ERR readership now spans the globe, with extensive European and international exposure in North and Latin America, Asia, Oceania and Africa (table 2 and figure 1) [7]. This means we must take our performance to another level and enhance our visibility especially in Europe.…”

“…A landmark was achieved in July 2010, with the indexing of the ERR in Medline/PubMed, facilitating full visibility of the content to the community [7]. Future efforts will improve the visibility of the ERR by expanding its inclusion in new indexes and databases.…”

TheEuropean Respiratory Review: meeting expectations of respiratory physicians through diversity and quality

“…This is illustrated by the ever increasing number of visits to the ERR website (http://err. ersjournals.com) and of the number of downloaded ERR articles worldwide [4], with 231 636 visits and 510 741 downloads in 2013. Importantly, the growing role of the ERR in the respiratory field is also exemplified by the increasing number of ERR articles that are being cited in articles in several international journals.…”