ISI's Impact Factor: A Grading System for Journals

The Chronicle of Higher Education's October 14, 2005 issue has an interesting article entitled "The Number That's Devouring Science" by Richard Monastersky. The article gives some background to impact factors and their current abuses. The article is free, no subscription needed http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i08/08a01201.htm

See Journal Citation Reports (JCR) http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#J