title: Reply to "On the Impact Factor and the ASM Editorial Policy".
authors.affiliation: Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA fcfang@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Ferric C
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-110X
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9402-9167
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casadevall