It seems obvious that the SSCI plays a significant role--be it positive or negative--in the US and European countries. Please allow me to add that it plays a very, very important role in Korea as well. Although the activity of Korean historians of economics is far from noticeable in the international scene, there exists a (small) community of historians of economics in Korea, whose members are, insofar as I know, currently striving for the preservation of the history of economics in the Korean academia. I've been in contact with one of the core players of the history of economics in Korea, and he has repeatedly stressed that Korean historians of economics should be able to publish their papers in the SSCI-listed journals in order to make a case to other economists, at the very least, for the preservation of the history of economics as a sub-field of economics, because the SSCI is so firmly established in Korea as "the" standard measure of the productivity and significance of sub-fields of economics. I strongly believe that the issue of having HOPE re-listed in the SSCI is so important for historians of economics in (virtually) every country that the initial effort made by the HES officers should be applauded. Also, I'd like to suggest that HES should maintain its active role in this effort, and that ESHET and JSHET should also be involved in this endeavor (and in the future effort to have JHET and EJHET listed in the SSCI as well). Let me add another remark: I simply don't understand why HOPE should be dropped out of the SSCI while Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and History of the Human Sciences are still there in the SSCI. Kyu Sang Lee