Eigenfactor Score
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Eigenfactor Score is a journal influence metric that estimates the importance of scholarly journals by considering the origin and frequency of citations in a network-based model.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eigenfactor Score canonical | 2 |
| Eigenfactor score | 2 |
| Article Influence Score | 1 |
| Eigenfactor.org | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2958722 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eigenfactor Score Context triple: [Journal Citation Reports, providesMetric, Eigenfactor Score]
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A.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
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B.
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index is a scholarly database within the Web of Science platform that indexes and tracks citation data for academic books and book chapters across disciplines.
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C.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is a global analytics company specializing in providing research, citation, patent, and intellectual property data and tools for academia, corporations, and governments.
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D.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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E.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a public digital library and search engine that focuses on indexing and providing access to scientific and academic research papers, particularly in computer and information science.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eigenfactor Score Target entity description: Eigenfactor Score is a journal influence metric that estimates the importance of scholarly journals by considering the origin and frequency of citations in a network-based model.
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A.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
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B.
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index is a scholarly database within the Web of Science platform that indexes and tracks citation data for academic books and book chapters across disciplines.
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C.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is a global analytics company specializing in providing research, citation, patent, and intellectual property data and tools for academia, corporations, and governments.
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D.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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E.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a public digital library and search engine that focuses on indexing and providing access to scientific and academic research papers, particularly in computer and information science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliometric indicator
ⓘ
citation-based metric ⓘ journal influence metric ⓘ |
| accountsFor |
citation network connectivity
ⓘ
citation quality via source weighting ⓘ |
| aggregationLevel | journal level ⓘ |
| basedOn |
citation network analysis
ⓘ
network-based model of citations ⓘ |
| considers |
citation patterns between journals
ⓘ
frequency of citations ⓘ origin of citations ⓘ |
| correlatesWith |
journal influence
ⓘ
journal prestige ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
dependence on proprietary citation databases
ⓘ
potential field differences in citation practices ⓘ |
| dataSource |
Journal Citation Reports
ⓘ
Web of Science citation data ⓘ |
| developedAt | University of Washington ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Carl T. Bergstrom
ⓘ
Jeannette D. West ⓘ |
| developedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| differentFrom |
Article Influence Score
ⓘ
linked to:
Eigenfactor Score
Journal Impact Factor ⓘ |
| excludes | journal self-citations ⓘ |
| field |
bibliometrics
ⓘ
scientometrics ⓘ |
| hostedOn |
Eigenfactor.org
ⓘ
linked to:
Eigenfactor Score
|
| interpretedAs | fraction of total weighted citations received by a journal ⓘ |
| introducedIn | mid-2000s ⓘ |
| introducedInPublication | PLoS ONE ⓘ |
| isA | metric for scholarly journals ⓘ |
| measures | importance of scholarly journals ⓘ |
| normalizesBy | citation network structure ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
journal ranking
ⓘ
research impact measurement ⓘ |
| relatedMetric | Article Influence Score ⓘ |
| reportedFor |
academic journals
ⓘ
scientific journals ⓘ social science journals ⓘ |
| scale | not normalized to 1 per journal ⓘ |
| similarTo | PageRank algorithm ⓘ |
| timeWindow | five-year citation window ⓘ |
| unit | dimensionless score ⓘ |
| usedFor |
evaluating journal influence
ⓘ
library collection management ⓘ research assessment ⓘ |
| uses |
iterative ranking algorithm
ⓘ
weighted citations ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Eigenfactor Score Description of subject: Eigenfactor Score is a journal influence metric that estimates the importance of scholarly journals by considering the origin and frequency of citations in a network-based model.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eigenfactor Score
linked to: Eigenfactor Score
linked to: Eigenfactor Score