determine the CF should such users not agree with the database designers' choices. Be that as it may, if you go to the Washington and Lee database and set 'Non US Law Journals' among your parameters you will see that EJIL , reaction pieces, Debates, The Last Page and Roaming Charges notwithstanding, scores very high in absolute citations, in IF, and has been the number one non-USA journal in their CF for some years. I.CON , our sister publication, is number three. As I said, no sour grapes. So what, then, is my gripe? It is a little bit like the classic Jewish joke used in the title, from the Borscht Belt (the Catskills in Upper State New York): two Yiddisher Mammas heard kvetching about the lunch they had just finished: 'The food was bad and what's more there was not enough of it....' The congratulatory email from our loyal reader which opened this Editorial is not atypical. Our distinguished publishers, Oxford University Press, somewhat shyly, track the IF and make all 'their' Editors aware of their vicissitudes in the IF tables. A colleague and friend, Managing Editor of a distinguished European law journal, sent out an excited email to all of us on the Advisory Board of that journal with news of a high IF score. My inbox was filled with notes of congratulations by no less excited colleagues on the Board responding to the good news. These indicators, like television ratings, are increasingly shaping the journal publishing world.