Journal status
By Johan Bollen, Michael A. Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel. Scientometrics, 2006
374 citations recorded by the source corpus.
SummaryThe 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.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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In Sociology and Political Science
In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Johan Bollen
- Ludo Waltman
- Herbert Van de Sompel
- Nees Jan van Eck
- Chaomei Chen
- Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Citations in the corpus
- Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor (2008, methodology): “However, this correlation was moderately strong and differed between various scientific fields, for instance, for medical journals (9, 23).”
- A review of the literature on citation impact indicators (2015, methodology): “A more recent proposal, inspired by the well-known PageRank algorithm (Brin & Page, 1998), is made by Bollen et al. (2006).”
- A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures (2009, methodology): “Finally, we included a set of recently introduced measures such as the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), the Y-factor (Bollen, 2007) [15], the Scimago H-index and Scimago Total Cites.”