Virulence

As Virulence is approaching its 3 year anniversary, we would like to take this opportunity to highlight the most recent developments and the course of the journal. In June this year, Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge released the first impact factor (IF) for Virulence: 2.264. Certainly we have some way to go in order to reach our goals but this is a positive first step. We are dedicated to further improving our journal both in content and in size, and with the ongoing active support of the research community we shall continue to make improvements. The steadily increasing number of high quality content shows that Virulence has quickly become accepted in the community, and allows us to increase the number of published issues to eight per year in 2013. This is an important step for the journal. The new schedule will allow even more rapid publication of your research and provide us with more space for timely special features. Virulence has a strong international editorial and advisory board, which guarantees the editorial independence of the journal and ensures the quality and high scientific standard of the published articles. Virulence editorial board members are assigned for a term of three years, thus, some board members will leave and a few new ones will join in 2013. This regular restructuring of the board should be a source for fresh wind and new ideas for the journal. We want to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing editorial board members for being actively involved in developing and improving our journal in the past three years, and welcome all new board members. Virulence is all set to continue improving and increasing its content. Our journal Virulence Three years and counting