Phil Davis writes: “Earlier this fall, Clarivate Analytics announced that it was moving toward a future that calculated the Journal Impact Factor based on the date of electronic publication and not the date of print publication. If your first reaction was ‘What took you so long!’ you are not alone. Online publication dates back to the mid 1990s, with several forward-looking journals hosting some or all of their content on this futuristic thingy known as the World Wide Web.”