Articles in the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (ARBME) were cited more often than papers in any of its peer journals, according to ISI�s 2003 Journal Citation Report, giving it the highest �impact factor� in its peer group. It was also ranked #1 in the ISI�s 2002 Journal Citation Report. The ISI�s impact factor has increased from 3.537 in 2002, to 7.875 in 2003. Professor Martin Yarmush serves as the editor-in-chief of the ARBME which published its first volume in 1999.