%0 Journal Article %T Special section ¡°Case Reports in Otolaryngology¡± %A MBA FRCS %A Patrick J. Bradley %J Archive of "AME Case Reports". %D 2018 %R 10.21037/acr.2018.01.02 %X I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of AME Case Reports (ACR) and head up the Section ¡°Case Reports in Otolaryngology¡±. While case reports tend to be misunderstood¡ªmore so by journal editors and academics because of their poor quality and ¡°lowering the impact factor¡± of the journal in which it appears! Most academics were one time trainees and if they be honest their career in publishing must have included a number of ¡°case reports¡±? (1) %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6155562/