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In June, as usual, Thomson Reuters-ISI Web of Knowledge published the impact factors for all the medical journals included in its listing and they attributed to Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (RPP) an impact factor (IF) of 1.56. This is the seventh consecutive year that RPP has been awarded an IF, the sixth consecutive year that it has increased and the third consecutive year with a score above 1 (Fig. 1). The present IF is the result of 131 citations in 2016, to be exact, 70 citations from articles published in 2014 and 61 from articles published in 2015, based on a total of 84 articles published in RPP in those 2 years. As in recent years, PJP has kept up a progressive increase in the number of citations, not only related to the two years considered in IF, but also considering all previous editions, considering that a total of 426 citations has been reported. Again, like last year, these citations came from a significant variety of medical journals which included some of the journals with higher IF (Fig. 2). More important is the fact that this has resulted in the 5-year IF to be now for the first time above 1, more precisely 1.392. This is undoubtedly because this is the score used by many academic institutions to evaluate medical journals and its papers. In the national scenario, RPP not only, for the fourth consecutive year the national medical journal with the highest IF, but also top of all the Portuguese scientific journals with IF. As I have stated in previous years a special acknowledgement has to be given to the Board of the Pulmonology Portuguese Society (SPP), to the associate editors and to all the