Eigenfactor: Does the principle of repeated improvement result in better estimates than raw citation counts?

Authors:
Philip M. Davis
Affiliations:
Department of Communication, 336 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Eigenfactor.org, a journal evaluation tool that uses aniterative algorithm to weight citations (similar to the PageRankalgorithm used for Google), has been proposed as a more validmethod for calculating the impact of journals. The purpose of thisbrief communication is to investigate whether the principle ofrepeated improvement provides different rankings of journals thandoes a simple unweighted citation count (the method used by theInstitute for Scientific Information@ [ISI]). © 2008 WileyPeriodicals, Inc.