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In the early 1960s, Irving H. Sher and I created the journal impact factor to help select journals for the new Science Citation Index (SCI). To do this we simply re-sorted the author citation index into the journal citation index. From this simple exercise, we learned that initially a core group of large and highly cited journals needed to be covered in the new SCI.