14-Concurrent 2B: Post-Publication Evaluation: Impact Factors and Beyond.

Sue Silver obtained her PhD from the University of London, UK, but later switched to scientific publishing. Journals she has worked on include The British Dental Journal, Biologist, and The Lancet Oncology. In 2002, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of a new journal from the Ecological Society of America, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Michael Kurtz is an astronomer and computer scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he joined after receiving a Ph.D. in Physics from
Dartmouth College in 1982. Kurtz is the author or co-author of over 250 technical articles and
abstracts on subjects ranging from cosmology and extra-galactic astronomy, to data reduction and
archiving techniques, to information systems and text retrieval algorithms.

In 1988 Kurtz conceived
what has now become the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System, the core of the digital library in
astronomy, perhaps the most sophisticated discipline-centered library extant. He has been
associated with the project since that time, and was awarded the 2001 Van Biesbroeck Prize of the
American Astronomical Society for his efforts. You may reach him at kurtz@cfa.harvard.edu .