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Information Research, with this issue, enters it's teenage years, a "rite of passage" in scholarly journals as in human life, but with no bar mitzvah, or equivalent ceremony, to celebrate! However, there is cause for celebration: some journals, print or electronic, never make it this far, so for Information Research to have made it into its thirteenth year is a significant event.

Over the past thirteen years we have moved from a very local journal, publishing working papers on the work of the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, first to a fully peer-reviewed journal and on to a journal covered by all of the major indexing services, including the Web of Knowledge, to one whose "impact factor" challenges the established journals and surpasses many of them.

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The rise of Information Research is quantitatively documented by the new SCImago Journal & Country Rank, to which I have referred in my Weblog. The four-year "SCImago Influence Measure" or SIM, as I have designated it, is particularly interesting, since it allows for a longer period of time within which citations may be earned than does ISIs Journal Impact Factor...(Information Research, Vol. 13 No. 1, March 2008).