Very good news Congratulations to all RachelCitando "Medema, Steven" <[log in to unmask]>: > Colleagues, > > We are writing to inform you of the good news that the Journal of > the History of Economic Thought has been accepted for inclusion in > the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities > Citation Index, effective with volume 30 (2008). Specifically, JHET > will now be included in: > > Social Sciences Citation Index®/Social Scisearch® > Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition > Arts and Humanities Citation Index® > Current Contents®/Arts & Humanities > > The "Journal Citation Reports" component means that JHET will be > assigned an impact factor, which is important for many of you in > your university's faculty evaluation and promotion processes. > > This is good news for JHET and for the History of Economics Society, > but it is also very important for the larger history of economics > community. With a critical mass of journals in the field-including > JHET, History of Political Economy, the European Journal of the > History of Economic Thought, and History of Economic Ideas-now > included in the SSCI, the stature of each of these journals, and of > the field as a whole, will be greatly enhanced. > > Yours sincerely, > > Evelyn Forget and Marcel Boumans > JHET Co-Editors > > Steven G. Medema > HES President > > >