Net citation balances: A measure of influence between scientific journals

✍ Scribed by Tijssen, R. J. W. ;van Raan, A. F. J.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 819 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199006)41:4<298::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

A probablistic model is applfed to a contingency table with cross-citation frequency counts between scientific journals. The parameters of the applied quasi-symmetry model are considered to reflect size, visibility, centrality, and content-similarity of journals. The net citation balances, i.e., the differences between model-based expected citation frequencies and observed citation frequencies, are used to derive an interjournal "influence" score. The summed scores yield a measure of the overall influence which is compared with two other citation-based disciplinary-oriented methods for ranking journals in an application to a number of core journals in astronomy and astrophysics.