title: The double macchiato years; awards for the best basic science and epidemiology papers in 2012.
abstract: It's increasingly difficult to get published in Thorax so we commend all those who managed it in 2012; and salute all those who tried and failed. We think that comparisons are invidious but our chief editors, with all their schoolboy charm, disagree so here are our awards for the best basic science and epidemiological manuscripts in the year of the London Olympics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Imperial College (NHLI), London, UK. p.cullinan@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cullinan
authors.forename: Clare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lloyd
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D035843:Biomedical Research; D015340:Epidemiologic Research Design; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012586:Science; D006113:United Kingdom