Ten good reasons to use the Eigenfactor™ metrics

Abstract

The Eigenfactor score is a journal influence metric developed at the Department of Biology of the University of Washington and recently introduced in the Science and Social Science Journal Citation Reports maintained by Thomson Reuters. It provides a compelling measure of journal status with solid mathematical background, sound axiomatic foundation, intriguing stochastic interpretation, and many interesting relationships to other ranking measures. In this short contribution, we give 10 reasons to motivate the use of the Eigenfactor method. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.