The relation between Eigenfactor, audience factor, and influence weight

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010, vol. 61, issue 7, 1476-1486

Abstract: We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of a number of bibliometric indicators of journal performance. We focus on three indicators in particular: the Eigenfactor indicator, the audience factor, and the influence weight indicator. Our main finding is that the last two indicators can be regarded as a kind of special case of the first indicator. We also find that the three indicators can be nicely characterized in terms of two properties. We refer to these properties as the property of insensitivity to field differences and the property of insensitivity to insignificant journals. The empirical results that we present illustrate our theoretical findings. We also show empirically that the differences between various indicators of journal performance are quite substantial.

Date: 2010
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