Abstract
Reading the Gazetteer article about the Company of Biologists in Current Biology (6:912) was like being punched in the stomach. Journal of Cell Science, which I have edited for the past five years, is described as “something of an also-ran.” This comment was unnecessary, unhelpful and unprecedented. The hard work that the editors and editorial board have put into JCS has, in fact, caused an amazing transformation in the journal which anyone who actually reads JCS cannot fail to notice. The number of submissions has soared, our impact factor has increased, and the number of both personal and institutional subscriptions is growing. Hardly compatible with the “also-ran” image. To put the Gazetteer article in perspective, if someone suggested that Current Biology only publishes papers that are rejected by Cell, Science and Nature, its editors would be justifiably upset. It was not our intention to imply that the Journal of Cell Science has not improved over the past five years; our sole point was that it is still perceived not to be at the very top of its field. F Watt, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK.
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