Title
f-Value: measuring an article's scientific impact
Abstract
The f-value is a new indicator that measures the importance of a research article by taking into account all citations received, directly and indirectly, up to depth n. The f-value considers all information present in a Citation Graph in order to produce a ranking of the articles. Apart from the mathematical equation that calculates the f-value, we also present the corresponding algorithm with its implementation, plus an experimental comparison of f-value with two known indicators of an article's scientific importance, namely, the number of citations and the Page Rank for citation analysis. Finally, we discuss the similarities and differences among the indicators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/s11192-010-0302-9
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Citation analysis,Citation graph,f-Value,Page Rank
Data mining,Graph,Page rank,Ranking,Computer science,Citation analysis,Citation graph,Mathematical equations,Scientific method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
86
3
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eleni Fragkiadaki1151.92
Georgios Evangelidis2599.77
Nikolaos Samaras310515.65
Dimitris A. Dervos4507.98