the blog of david dean » impact http://www.davidbdean.com currently not blogging much at all Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Journal Impact and Eigenfactor http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/07/19/journal-impact-and-eigenfactor/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/07/19/journal-impact-and-eigenfactor/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:57:07 +0000 David Dean http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/07/19/journal-impact-and-eigenfactor/ I’ve been looking for good journals to submit a paper to for a while now, and working out the quality of journals is not the easiest thing to do. Traditionally, the impact factor as calculated and listed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) have been used, but the access to these impact factors is not free, and even when you have access it is a pain to use.

However, while perusing the wikipedia article on impact factors, I stumbled upon eigenfactor.org who take a much more page-ranky approach to journal impact. This apparently does a much better job than the more linear approach of the JCR. And what is even better is that it is easy to use. Here, go look at the journals listed in Computer Science – AI. Very easy to understand. And what is even more better is that it is completely free and any Joe or Jane on the internet can access it.

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