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The second one is the hard one, because prestige is the very thing they have. Something like PageRank (itself a citation-weighting scheme) should do it, based
by hyperpallium 10y ago
The second one is the hard one, because prestige is the very thing they have.
Something like PageRank (itself a citation-weighting scheme) should do it, based not on the coarse-grained prestige of editor-gatekeeper publishers, but the fine-grained prestige of researcher-authors and the work itself.
- dr_coffee 10y agoThe Eigenfactor is a metric for ranking journals that uses an algorithm similar to PageRank http://www.eigenfactor.org/index.php http://www.eigenfactor.org/index.php and is one of the many metrics competing to replace IF