Journal Status

@misc{citeulike:516722, abstract = {The status of an actor in a social context is commonly defined in terms of two factors: the total number of endorsements the actor receives from other actors and the prestige of the endorsing actors. These two factors indicate the distinction between popularity and expert appreciation of the actor, respectively. We refer to the former as popularity and to the latter as prestige. These notions of popularity and prestige also apply to the domain of scholarly assessment. The ISI Impact Factor (ISI IF) is defined as the mean number of citations a journal receives over a 2 year period. By merely counting the amount of citations and disregarding the prestige of the citing journals, the ISI IF is a metric of popularity, not of prestige. We demonstrate how a weighted version of the popular PageRank algorithm can be used to obtain a metric that reflects prestige. We contrast the rankings of journals according to their ISI IF and their weighted PageRank, and we provide an analysis that reveals both significant overlaps and differences. Furthermore, we introduce the Y-factor which is a simple combination of both the ISI IF and the weighted PageRank, and find that the resulting journal rankings correspond well to a general understanding of journal status.}, author = {Bollen, Johan and Rodriguez, Marko A. and Van de Sompel, Herbert }, citeulike-article-id = {516722}, eprint = {cs.DL/0601030}, keywords = {citation, impactfactor, journal}, month = {Jan}, posted-at = {2007-02-06 18:22:47}, priority = {4}, title = {Journal Status}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0601030}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:516722 L3 - citeulike-article-id:516722 TI - Journal Status N2 - The status of an actor in a social context is commonly defined in terms of two factors: the total number of endorsements the actor receives from other actors and the prestige of the endorsing actors. These two factors indicate the distinction between popularity and expert appreciation of the actor, respectively. We refer to the former as popularity and to the latter as prestige. These notions of popularity and prestige also apply to the domain of scholarly assessment. The ISI Impact Factor (ISI IF) is defined as the mean number of citations a journal receives over a 2 year period. By merely counting the amount of citations and disregarding the prestige of the citing journals, the ISI IF is a metric of popularity, not of prestige. We demonstrate how a weighted version of the popular PageRank algorithm can be used to obtain a metric that reflects prestige. We contrast the rankings of journals according to their ISI IF and their weighted PageRank, and we provide an analysis that reveals both significant overlaps and differences. Furthermore, we introduce the Y-factor which is a simple combination of both the ISI IF and the weighted PageRank, and find that the resulting journal rankings correspond well to a general understanding of journal status. KW - citation KW - impactfactor KW - journal AU - Bollen, Johan AU - Rodriguez, Marko AU - Van de Sompel, Herbert PY - 2006/Jan/09/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0601030 ER -