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Journal status

  • Johan Bollen1,
  • Marko A. Rodriquez2 &
  • Herbert Van de Sompel3 

Scientometrics volume 69, pages 669–687 (2006)Cite this article

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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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  1. Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    Johan Bollen

  2. Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (USA)

    Marko A. Rodriquez

  3. Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (USA)

    Herbert Van de Sompel

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Bollen, J., Rodriquez, M. & Van de Sompel, H. Journal status. Scientometrics 69, 669–687 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0176-z

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  • Journal Impact Factor
  • Journal Status
  • PageRank Algorithm
  • Prestigious Journal
  • Digital Library Research
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