Letter from Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues, For many years, this journal has been a vehicle for the delivery of timely and thoughtful information and opinion on the many issues that involve the EnT community. Firstly, i would like to join all the members of the italian Society of otorhinolaryngology in thanking the past editors-in-chief for their service to our readers. i also would like to thank those who served on the journal staff and its editorial board, and particularly the reviewers for providing the support and feedback necessary to find, develop and publish high-quality material. Finally, i really want to thank Prof. Fausto Chiesa for the excellent job he has done. in the past 10 years, Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica has evolved to become a frequently-cited journal, and it recently received an impact factor that reflects the dedication and expertise of our editors and reviewers. As you may know, the Journal Citation reports for 2010 have been recently released and the Journal was given an impact Factor of 0.427. i offer my thanks to both readers and authors, who have helped us by citing articles from our journal. To improve this result, we hope to receive high quality manuscripts from italian and international authors. Starting with this volume, we've made some significant changes. our aim, in fact, is to follow the process that had already begun in taking the journal from its infancy to maturity. For this reason, we've decided to meet the standards set out by the " Uniform requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals " developed by the international Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org), and have refined our Author guidelines accordingly. For more information on submitting a paper, please visit the journal's guide for authors (www.actaitalica/journal). For readers of our journal, these changes should have a positive impact. We hope you enjoy and learn from our journal, as in the past, and find it a source of up-to-date and high-quality information in the EnT field. For authors, both current and future, we expect that these changes will improve our citation rankings, and we hope that your publication in this journal will benefit you as well. For us, it is important what our authors have to communicate. Papers are welcomed in multiple areas, and those in which the novelty of the study has been accurately portrayed-ranging from the medical/ clinical perspective to basic and experimental research-are encouraged. Articles concerning scientific investigations and …