Scholarly periodicals--Ratings and rankings

found: Work cat.: West, J.D. Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping scientific knowledge, 2010(Eigenfactor is a statistical tool for identifying important nodes in citation networks; another way of ranking the relative influence that each scholarly journal is having)

found: Wikipedia, May 5, 2011(Eigenfactor. The Eigenfactor score is a rating of the total importance of a scientific journal. In a manner reminiscent of Google's Pagerank algorithm, 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)

found: eigenfactor.org website, May 5, 2011(Eigenfactor scores and Article Influence scores rank journals much as Google ranks websites)

found: Fersht, A. The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor, 2009, in PNAS, Apr. 28, 2009, viewed online, May 5, 2011:p. 6883 (Bibliometricians have introduced various scales of ranking journals; some based on publications, some based on usage as well, including the internet, using social networking analysis; there is a new parameter, the Eigenfactor, which attempts to rate the influence of journals; Eigenfactor ranks journals in a manner similar to that used by Google for ranking the importance of Web sites in a search)