Citation Statistics, June, 2008, report from 3 math associations

There has been a lot of discussion this month about this report: Citation Statistics: A Report From The International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) [26 page pdf] Here are a few links to news items and summarizing discussions, in case you don't want to read all 26 pages:

• 3 Mathematics Associations Caution Against Overreliance on Impact Factor [Wired Campus] One of the comments "And the final irony: Mathematicians reminding us to read! It doesn’t get any better than this!"
• http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/417-guid.html [Stevan Harnad]
• http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/citation-statistics-report-from.html [Gerry McKiernan]
• Mathematicians Critique Journal Rankings [Wall Street Journal]
• http://beckerinfo.net/scp/2008/06/11/citation-statistics-report/ [Cathy Sarli in Becker Scholarly Communications Update]