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The onset of summer means many things—baseball, fresh stone fruit, camping in the Sierra, and of course, the new Journal Impact Factors (JIF). As you read this Editorial the JIF report has likely already been released, and we expect American Mineralogist has climbed significantly in the rankings (see reasoning below). We (perhaps prematurely) thank our authors, as this increase is due entirely to the support of those who entrust their very best works to the journal—an act utterly crucial for any journal to survive, especially in recent decades for journals published by scientific societies. Here we provide some muted celebration of the anticipated event with some qualifying context.As noted earlier (Putirka 2016), baseball fans put vastly more effort into deciding whether Don Sutton or Tom Seaver was the better pitcher than scientists do in ranking journals or one another. We don’t know why. But this is not to say that rankings are meaningless. And they can be fun, especially when the stakes are low and when they provide unexpected results (my heart says “Sutton”; the numbers say “Seaver”). Oftentimes, though, rankings have far-reaching impact. For example, the failed news magazine U.S. News and World Report (USN&WR), ironically releases its college and university rankings each fall. These rankings affect how thousands of families spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. But a now-defunct news magazine is not the only game in town. The profitable Washington Monthly (or WM) also ranks colleges and universities. To cite their online editorial, they rate “ schools based on what they are doing for the country. It’s our answer to U.S. News & World Report , which relies on crude and easily manipulated measures of wealth, exclusivity, and prestige ”.As it happens, in 2016 WM ranks Fresno State 25th in the nation, among …

A new high JIF for American Mineralogist (by all early indications), why you shouldn’t care, and a note on values