2010. He had published a biographical article on Georg Cantor in the journal in 1971 and met the-then editor, Heathcote, during the process of publication. Heathcote was overloaded with work — "the journal seemed never to reject anything" — and he invited Grattan-Guinness to join the editorial board. He joined the board and met with the publishers in June 1974, when he told John Cheney, the house editor, that "the journal had acquired a poor reputation in recent years", which surprised Cheney. That same afternoon Cheney rang Heathcote only to find that he was in the process of writing his resignation letter recommending Grattan-Guinness as his successor — the younger man was immediately offered the post of editor. Taylor & Francis would otherwise have closed the journal. Abstracting and indexing Annals of Science is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 0.222. See also List of history of science and technology journals and periodicals References External links Publications established in 1936 History of science journals English-language journals Taylor & Francis academic journals Quarterly journals 1936 establishments in the United Kingdom