From Noah Gray’s blog Nothing’s Shocking
“The Journal of Neuroscience is publishing a series of invited commentaries exploring the current use of impact metrics to measure scientific achievement (and how misleading the metrics can be) and what alternatives may be available. I’m sure that this will give us plenty to discuss over the coming weeks.
The first piece explores a modification of Google’s PageRank algorithm. The authors call this “CiteRank”.”
Noah discusses the article and goes on to conclude: “The dataset they chose for the current analysis was from the physics community. Since I don’t have a gut sense of this literature, it is hard for me to glean the usefulness or power of their calculation. I think I would need to see this applied to my broad field and examine the output before I could pass judgment. Nevertheless, it is an interesting proposal”.