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I would like to add a different type of point. It's all very well to talk of the journals of repute, RAEs etc. But we have to help journals attain this level. And if we only publish in the top ones, there will be no new top ones to join in. My strategy for publishing is to publish quite a lot in less known and less prestigious journals, in the hope that my presence will help raise their profile. (You may disagree that my presence will have this effect, but that's a different matter.) If we, specially some of the older, better known and more established, go on endlessly publishing in the few "top" journals they will tend to exclude the young and the new, and they also fail in the senior statesperson's job of raising the profile and developing the possibilities of the subject. We have to care more for the subject than ourselves or our institutions, else we are not academics and scholars but simple political servants. Ranulph