Christina's LIS Rant
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Eigen factor?
This post is a bit of a place holder for more thought (and a way to not be working on my, oh, 3 research papers and one white paper for work...).
The Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington has developed a new metric for journal impact roughly based on eigenvector centrality in SNA (note: linked description needs to be read continuously for an hour to make sense). The math bit for this measure is actually understandable so read it if you get a chance.
Odds that I'll ever get back to this are slim so .. this could make a slight bit of sense in the Ellis-chaining-sense...
The categories are screwy, but they come directly from JCR, I think so this project isn't to be judged on that.
I wonder if this can be gamed by journal editors requiring authors to cite articles in their journals (in order to get published in that same journal?). The web commentary seems to be "discovering" the many pitfalls of citation analysis so this is probably a good thing either way.
The Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington has developed a new metric for journal impact roughly based on eigenvector centrality in SNA (note: linked description needs to be read continuously for an hour to make sense). The math bit for this measure is actually understandable so read it if you get a chance.
Odds that I'll ever get back to this are slim so .. this could make a slight bit of sense in the Ellis-chaining-sense...
The categories are screwy, but they come directly from JCR, I think so this project isn't to be judged on that.
I wonder if this can be gamed by journal editors requiring authors to cite articles in their journals (in order to get published in that same journal?). The web commentary seems to be "discovering" the many pitfalls of citation analysis so this is probably a good thing either way.
Labels: bibliometrics, citation analysis, impact factor
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Friday, December 29, 2006
January 2007 issue of Physics World
Some good stuff here:
January 2007
A revolution in bits
Why the Web is changing physics publishing
The open-access debate
The pros and cons of free-to-read papers
Talking physics in the social Web
Blogs, wikis and social tagging
Peer review steps out of the shadows
How the Web can open up peer review
The rise and rise of citation analysis
Using the Web to quantify scientific output
Editorial
Brave new Web
Welcome to the publishing revolution
Forum
Blogging for physics
Why I like to blog (by Sean Carroll)
Reviews
All shook up
The strange life of Charles Richter
Secret history
Lifting the veil on female physicists
Blog life: Uncertain Principles
Our new column on blogs
January 2007
A revolution in bits
Why the Web is changing physics publishing
The open-access debate
The pros and cons of free-to-read papers
Talking physics in the social Web
Blogs, wikis and social tagging
Peer review steps out of the shadows
How the Web can open up peer review
The rise and rise of citation analysis
Using the Web to quantify scientific output
Editorial
Brave new Web
Welcome to the publishing revolution
Forum
Blogging for physics
Why I like to blog (by Sean Carroll)
Reviews
All shook up
The strange life of Charles Richter
Secret history
Lifting the veil on female physicists
Blog life: Uncertain Principles
Our new column on blogs
Labels: citation analysis, physics, science blogging
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