What is a good Eigenfactor?
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.
Is PNAS a credible journal?
Fortunately, PNAS has both a good IF and a high reliability because of its access to so many expert National Academy of Sciences member–editors. If a paper has to be judged by a metric, then it should by the citations to it and not to the journal.
How do you interpret an Eigenfactor?
The Article Influence Score is calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor Score by the number of articles of that journal and normalizing the scores so that the average score equals 1. That means if a journal has a score of 5, it will be 5 times as influential as the average journal.
Where is Eigenfactor?
How to find the Eigenfactor:
- To find a journal’s Eigenfactor, Article Influence, or Normalized Eigenfactor score, go to the Journal Ranking Search page on the Eigenfactor website.
- From the Journal Ranking search page, you can search for a journal name, ISSN, publisher, year, ISI category or exact journal name.
Is PNAS hard to publish?
So the overall acceptance rate for open submissions has to be, at most, 16%. But if you ditch some of the 20 member-track papers, you have to come down even harder on the open submissions, of course. If you only (only!) take 75% of the member submissions, that gives you 15 manuscripts.
Is iScience peer-reviewed?
What type of peer review does iScience support? iScience uses single blind peer review, which is standard across Cell Press journals.
Is neuron a good journal?
The overall rank of Neuron is 83. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 9.612. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals.
Where did the Eigenfactor come from?
The Eigenfactor came out of the Metrics Eigenfactor Project in 2008, a bibliometric research project conducted by Professor Carl Bergstrom and his laboratory at University of Washington.
What are the disadvantages of Eigenfactor?
Disadvantages of Eigenfactor/Article Influence Score: Eigenfactor assigns journals to a single category, making it more difficult to compare across disciplines. Some argue that Eigenfactor score isn’t much different than raw citation counts (see a blog post on this topic by The Scholarly Kitchen, for example).
What is the difference between Eigenfactor and citation counts?
Eigenfactor assigns journals to a single category, making it more difficult to compare across disciplines. Some argue that Eigenfactor score isn’t much different than raw citation counts (see a blog post on this topic by The Scholarly Kitchen, for example). Below is an example of the Eigenfactor and Article Influence Scores for a few journals.
Where can I find the Eigenfactor and Article Influence scores?
Below is an example of the Eigenfactor and Article Influence Scores for a few journals. You can search the Eigenfactor Website to find the scores for journals of interest.