Ethics In Science And Enviromental Politics Vol. 8, No. 1, Special Issue: The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance is an extensive set of papers on bibliometric indices. I have as yet to read them, but they look interesting and significant: Browman, H., Stergiou, K. (2008). Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 1-3. DOI: 10.3354/esep00089 Campbell, P. (2008). Escape from the impact factor. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 5-7. DOI: 10.3354/esep00078 Lawrence, P. (2008). Lost in publication: how measurement harms science. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 9-11. DOI: 10.3354/esep00079 Todd, P., Ladle, R. (2008). Hidden dangers of a "citation culture". Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 13-16. DOI: 10.3354/esep00091 Taylor, M...