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Despite its criticisms and short-comings, the Impact Factor (IF), defined as the number of papers that a journal has published that are cited in published papers divided by the total number of citable papers (i.e. excluding editorials and letters to the editor) over a two year period, remains an important marker of a journal’s academic relevance. Like ratings of television shows, a higher rating is better than a lower rating. Therefore, the assignment of an Impact Factor should be a matter of joy for all those persons who helped with the “birth” of the Annals of Hepatology and nurtured it during its “infancy and childhood” as well as its diverse readership, from trainees, to clinicians and academic researchers. Congratulations are also dues to its Editor-in-Chief and to the Editorial Board, for their hard work and continuous effort to create a good quality international hepatology journal in the English language, from within at the Spanish speaking world. The given promising IF rank testifies that the idea Dr. Nahum Méndez-Sánchez had 8 years ago has been a winning one. Looking back and scrolling through the first issue of January 2002, a surprisingly long journey has been travelled in a relatively short time. It was clear from the start what the mission of this ambitious new enterprise was after Nahum wrote in his introductory editorial “We will work very hard to make a very good journal”.

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Vol. 9 Núm.4. Octubre-Diciembre 2010 Pags. 385-386 Ann Hepatol 2010; 9(4)