Taking Daniele's revisiting of the thread as a prompt: whatever SSCI's response, there exist various as yet underexplored ways of increasing the visibility of research in our field: a) all field journals should be indexed on http://repec.org/ (at the moment I think only JHET and EJHET are) b) all historians of economics should be present on RepEc, and, with a) in place, would be able to track abstract views, downloads and increasingly also intra-repec citation statistics of their publications (even if the paper is only accessible online through a subscription model) c) a scenario still somewhat down the line but don't dismiss it: it is quite conceivable that at some stage, all history of economics articles would be amenable to intra-repec citation analysis so here we would have an alternative source for impact analysis etc, with access to raw data if I understnad it correctly; repec is an open platform so lets support it Matthias Klaes