Citation influence for journal aggregates of scientific publications: Theory, with application to the literature of physics

Abstract

Abstraet-A self-consistent methodology is developed for determining citation based influence measures for scientific journals, subfields and fields. Starting with the cross citing matrix between journals or between aggregates of journals, an eigenvalue problem is formulated leading to a size independent intluence weight for each journal or aggregate. Two other measures, the influence per publication and the total influence are then defined. Hierarchical influence diagrams and numerical data are presented to display journal interrelationships for journals within the subfields of physics. A wide range in influence is found between the most influentiaJ and least influenti~ or peripheral journals. I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment

“…Pinski and Narin [45] proposed a more subtle citation-based measure of standing, stemming from the observation that not all citations are equally important. They argued that a journal is "influential" if, recursively, it is heavily cited by other influential journals.…”

Citation counting, citation ranking, and h‐index of human‐computer interaction researchers: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science

“…While these findings suggest that, for HCI, more valid citation analyses are likely to be obtained through using Scopus than Web of Science, it is important to emphasize that wider coverage is not necessarily better because it may mean coverage of lower quality publications. It is often argued in academic circles that citations in high quality publications and/or from prominent authors and institutions carry more weight or are more valuable than citations found in low impact publications, and, therefore, sources of citations should be examined in order to assess the true value of the citations, especially when used in an evaluation exercise (see Neary, Mirrlees, & Tirole, 2003;Palacios-Huerta & Volij, 2004;Pinski & Narin, 1976). Given both the fact that Web of Science is the more well established citation database and the claim that it covers only or mainly high impact journals, we decided to assess the status of the sources in which Scopus's citations were found.…”

Analysis of an Optimal Measurement Index Based on the Complex Network

“…"#" refers to the number of elements in the set. Other indexes of the cumulative probability distribution are defined similarly [11][12][13]. The distribution of c-indexes after transformed data regression approximates power-law distribution.…”