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A couple of months ago I linkurl:compared the ineptitude of the Philadelphia Phillies with the pharma industry. ;http://www.the-scientist.com/2007/8/1/13/1/ Well, good news! The Phillies have turned things around. Having picked up the 10,000th loss of their history on 15 July, they today won the National League East title and head to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. We can all take inspiration from this. I can. The pharmaceutical industry can. There's a lot of talent in the pharma

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In the beauty contest that is the annual citation report from ISI, linkurl:Nature;http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html has tripped and fallen off the stage. Having been the top journal in 2004 with an impact factor of 31.9, they slipped marginally behind linkurl:Science;http://www.sciencemag.org/ and linkurl:Cell;http://www.cell.com/ in 2005. But the latest figures, for 2006, show a gulf in linkurl:impact factors;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/impact_factors . Science comes in at 30.0, Cell

It's always nice to get some stroking, and The Scientist staff has been purring over the last couple of weeks. Last night we took home the national Gold Azbee award -- that's the top one -- for Publication Redesign in the under-80,000 category at the linkurl:American Society of Business Publication Editors' 29th Annual Awards of Excellence;http://www.asbpe.org/contest/2007/win07natdes.htm . We entered the linkurl:November 2006 issue.;http://www.the-scientist.com/toc/2006/11/1/. Congratulations

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