The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations …

through self citation practices, which may be coercive. Another method for distorting journal impact is through a set of … nonetheless unprofessional and distortionary. Both journal self citations and exchanged citations have the effect of increasing a … journalś impact factor, which may be deceptive. The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality …

In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor(R) score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted … methods described herein, we provide Eigenfactor rankings for 84,808 disambiguated authors of 240,804 papers in the Social … social sciences and humanities. As an additive metric, the Eigenfactor scores are readily computed for collectives such as …