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| Authors: | Johan Bollen Marko A Rodriquez Herbert Van de Sompel |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA;(2) Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (USA);(3) Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (USA) |
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| Abstract: | Summary 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. |
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