This is the last issue of Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica published under my editorship; I would like to take this opportunity to briefly review the activi-ties carried out in this period.Over the last 5 years, I have had the privilege and honour of leading the journal towards great goals, following in the esteemed footsteps of my predecessors, in particular Dr. Marco Piemonte, Dr. Fausto Chiesa and Professor Gaetano Paludetti. This commitment, thanks also to the cooperation and unstinting efforts of the entire scientific and editorial team, has been rewarded by the progressive growth of the impact factor, which has reached a value of 2.68, placing Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica among the most prestigious inter-national scientific journals in the field.
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Farewell Editorial




This is the last issue of Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica published under
my editorship; I would like to take this opportunity to briefly review the activi-
ties carried out in this period.
Over the last 5 years, I have had the privilege and honour of leading the journal
towards great goals, following in the esteemed footsteps of my predecessors,
in particular Dr. Marco Piemonte, Dr. Fausto Chiesa and Professor Gaetano
Paludetti. This commitment, thanks also to the cooperation and unstinting
efforts of the entire scientific and editorial team, has been rewarded by the
progressive growth of the impact factor, which has reached a value of 2.68,
placing Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica among the most prestigious inter-
national scientific journals in the field.
These results have been achieved thanks to the enhancement of the editorial
and organizational process of Acta, which was carried out with the dedication
and active support of the Presidents and Boards of Directors of the Italian Oto-
laryngology Society, to whom go my heartfelt thanks.
The most important organisational improvements were the introduction of
section editors, the renewal of the journal’s editorial platform (OJS), and the
implementation of an ‘online first’ section. This made it possible to speed up
the evaluation and publication of papers submitted to our journal, while main-
taining a consistent scientific value. Thus, the first peer review of the papers
is completed and communicated to the authors within 30 days; the selection
is very careful and rigorous: currently about 30% of the submitted papers are
accepted and published.
Editorial improvements include a more user-friendly and readable layout,
colour printing of each issue, and publication, as a supplement to the year’s
issue two, of the official report, a topical monograph presented at the annual
congress of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology. The articles in these supple-
ments are the most consulted and cited among those published in Acta.
Unfortunately, this has led to a modest fee being charged to authors of ac-
cepted and published articles; however, this has not prevented an increasing
number of high-quality papers from researchers and clinicians from countries
around the world being submitted for publication in Acta.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the active and close
collaboration of our publisher Pacini Editore and their team, the cooperation
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and support of a fantastic editorial team, and the hard work of the section edi-     e Chirurgia Cervico-Facciale
tors, all of whom I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart.
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