Article: Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals
by Carl Bergstrom, associate professor in the department of biology at the University of Washington
From the article:

The scientific literature forms a network of scholarly articles, connected by citations.3 Each connection in this network—that is, each citation—reflects the assessment of an individual scholar regarding which papers are interesting and relevant to his or her work. Thus contained within the vast network of scholarly citations is the collective wisdom of hundreds of thousands of authors. My colleagues4 and I have developed a way to use the network structure of citations to improve on simple citation counts in measuring the scientific influence of academic publications. At our Web site www.eigenfactor.org, we report these measures for the nearly 8,000 publications indexed by Thompson Scientific’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR) as well as for the approximately 110,000 other journals, books, newspapers, and other reference items that are referred to by these publications.

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