TY - JOUR T1 - Impact factor and its role in academic promotion JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1499 LP - 1500 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00094109 VL - 34 IS - 6 AU - V. Brusasco AU - A. T. Dinh-Xuan AU - A. R. Leff AU - K. B. Adler AU - R. W. Glenny AU - J. A. Dempsey AU - M. L. Levy AU - R. Panettieri AU - H. K. Reddel AU - D. Singh AU - J. C. Virchow Y1 - 2009/12/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/34/6/1499.abstract N2 - To the Editors: The following statement was adopted unanimously at the May 17, 2009, meeting of the International Respiratory Journal Editors Roundtable. In our collective experience as editors of international peer-reviewed journals, we propose that the impact factor calculated for individual journals should not be used as a basis for evaluating the significance of an individual scientist's past performance or scientific potential. There are several reasons not to equate … ER -