Evaluate and Rank Me!

Wired has a story about the concept of Journal Impact Factor and whether the Science Citation Index is the most accurate way to determine quality.

A physicist named Jorge Hirsch has come up with a new method he calls the h-index to rank important work.

This is largely about individual author reputation, which Impact Factor technically does not measure, but of course we can hardly help but notice the number of times an author's work is cited when looking at ISI Web of Knowledge (it's just such a cool feature! and so right there!).

Now this is the kind of library geekitude about which one could become embroiled in fierce debates.