Eigen Factor

A journal's Eigenfactor score is measured as its importance to the scientific community. Scores are scaled so that the
sum of all journal scores is 100. In 2006, Nature had the highest score of 1.992.

 Intended to reflect the influence and prestige of journals.

 Created to help capture the value of publication output vs. journal quality (i.e. the value of a single publication
in a major journal vs. many publications in minor journals).

Eigenfactor scores and Article Influence® scores rank journals much as Google ranks websites. Different
disciplines have different standards for citation and different time scales on which citations occur. The average
article in a leading cell biology journal might receive 10-30 citations within two years; the average article in
leading mathematics journal would do very well to receive 2 citations over the same period. By using the whole
citation network, our algorithm automatically accounts for these differences and allows better comparison across
research areas.

n many research areas, articles are not frequently cited until several years after publication. Therefore, measures that
only look at citations in the first two years after publication can be misleading. The Eigenfactor score and the Article
Influence score is calculated based on the citations received over a five year period.

Article Influence Score

The Article Influence Score determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after
publication. It is calculated by multiplying the Eigenfactor Score by 0.01 and dividing by the number of articles in
the journal, normalized as a fraction of all articles in all publications. This measure is roughly analogous to the 5-
Year Journal Impact Factor in that it is a ratio of a journal’s citation influence to the size of the journal’s article
contribution over a period of five years.

The equation is as follows:

Where X = 5-year Journal Article Count divided by the 5-year Article Count from All Journals.

The mean Article Influence Score for each article is 1.00. A score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the
journal has above-average influence. A score less than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has below-average
influence.

Note: Citations from highly ranked journals are more important and influential than those from lower ranked journals.

H-Index in Web of Science

The Web of Science uses the H-Index to quantify research output by measuring author productivity and impact.
H-Index = number of papers (h) with a citation number ≥ h.
Example: a scientist with an H-Index of 37 has 37 papers cited at least 37 times.
Advantages of the H-Index:

 Allows for direct comparisons within disciplines

 Measures quantity and impact by a single value.

Disadvantages of the H-Index:

  Does not give an accurate measure for early-career researchers
 Calculated by using only articles that are indexed in Web of Science. If a researcher publishes an article in
a journal that is not indexed by Web of Science, the article as well as any citations to it will not be included
in the H-Index calculation.

Tools for measuring H-Index:

 Web of Science
 Google Scholar

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

Based on citation data of the more than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals indexed by Scopus from 1996 onwards.
Citations are weighted, depending on the rank of the citing journal: A citation from an important journal will count
as more than one citation; a citation coming from a less important journal will count as less than one citation. The
SJR of journal J in year X is the number of weighted citations received by J in X to any item published in J in (X-1),
(X-2) or (X-3), divided by the total number of articles and reviews published in (X-1), (X-2) or (X-3).

Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on
the total number of citations in a subject field. This unique perspective enables direct comparison of sources in
different subject fields. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less
likely, and vice versa.It is a ratio, with a numerator and a denominator. SNIP's numerator is a journal's impact per
publication (IPP). This is simply the average number of citations received in a particular year (e.g. 2013) by papers
published in the journal during the three preceding years (e.g. 2010, 2011 and 2012).

SNIP

SNIP
Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on
the total number of citations in a subject field. This unique perspective enables direct comparison of sources in
different subject fields. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less
likely, and vice versa.

It is a ratio, with a numerator and a denominator. SNIP's numerator is a journal's impact per publication (IPP). This
is simply the average number of citations received in a particular year (e.g. 2013) by papers published in the journal
during the three preceding years (e.g. 2010, 2011 and 2012).

SNIP's denominator is the Database Citation Potential (DCP). We know that there are large differences between
various scientific subfields in the frequency at which authors cite papers. In view of this, for each journal an
indicator is calculated of the citation potential in the subject field it covers. This citation potential is included in
SNIP's denominator, the DCP. SNIP is IPP divided by DCP.