According to Fawcett et al. (1995), academic journals are the primary platform for developing and disseminating disciplinary knowledge. We therefore suggest that monitoring the relative performance and quality of leading SCML academic journals is an important ongoing endeavor that helps the discipline track its progress in relation to other disciplines. Such research studies appear to influence the promotion and remuneration of SCML researchers and may also be critical for publishers whose sales may be contingent on perceived journal quality. Accordingly, we expect that evaluation studies for the SCML journals will continue. These research efforts will now be greatly facilitated by the ability to access the Web of Science database for data rather than performing manual counts.