On January 1, 2007, Bernard De Baets joined Didier Dubois as co-editor-in-chief of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, one of Elsevier’s leading journals. According to the 2005 ISI ranking, Fuzzy Sets and Systems is
     - the 5th most influential journal in Computer Science, Theory and Methods;
     - the 5th most influential journal in Mathematics, Applied;
     - the 6th most influential journal in Statistics and Probability.