Article Influence & Eigenfactor

226.0 238.0 216.0 214.0 198.0 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 226.0 238.0 216.0 214.0 198.0 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
  • 226.0
  • 0.002
  • 238.0
  • 0.002
  • 216.0
  • 0.001
  • 214.0
  • 0.001
  • 198.0
  • 1.0

About Article Influence & Eigenfactor

Citations from highly ranked journals are more important and influential than those from lower ranked journals.

Metrics

Year Eigenfactor AI
2017 1.000 198.000
2016 0.001 214.000
2015 0.001 216.000
2014 0.002 238.000
2013 0.002 226.000

Definition

Article Influence

Article Influence is calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor® score by the percentage of all articles recorded in the Journal Citation Reports that were published in a specific journal. The Article Influence score measures the average influence per article of the papers in a journal. As such, it is comparable to Clarivate Analytics widely used Impact Factor. Article Influence scores are normalized so that the mean article in the entire Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database has an article influence of 1.00.

Eigenfactor®

The Eigenfactor® score is a rating of the total importance of a specific journal. Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the Eigenfactor® than those from poorly ranked journals. As a measure of importance, the Eigenfactor® score scales with the total impact of a journal. Journals generating higher impact to the field tend to have larger Eigenfactor® scores. The Eigenfactor® approach is thought to be more robust than the Impact Factor metric, which counts purely incoming citations without considering the significance of those citations.

Article influence and Eigenfactor® exclude self-citations.