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At our recent annual associate editors meeting we discussed whether the IJE should follow most other general medical and leading epidemiology journals in releasing press releases to publicise particular papers. One associate editor (not a natural media tart or self-publicist) is enthusiastic about press releases, and thinks that the IJE may not be helping authors' careers and their institutional standing in not routinely engaging in promotion of the material appearing in its pages. Receiving coverage in the popular press certainly increases the citations in the scientific literature that a paper receives, as demonstrated by the study showing that scientific papers covered in the New York Times were cited considerably more often in the subsequent 10 years than papers not covered in the