Paper Info
Title
The difference between popularity and prestige in the sciences and in the social sciences: A bibliometric analysis
Abstract
The status of a journal is commonly determined by two factors: popularity and prestige. While the former counts citations, the latter recursively weights them with the prestige of the citing journals. We make a thorough comparison of the bibliometric concepts of popularity and prestige for journals in the sciences and in the social sciences. We find that the two notions diverge more for the hard sciences, including physics, engineering, material sciences, and computer sciences, than they do for the geosciences, for biology-medical disciplines, and for the social sciences. Moreover, we identify the science and social science journals with the highest diverging ranks in popularity and prestige compilations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.joi.2009.08.001
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Journal influence,Impact factor,Eigenfactor
Social science,Computer science,Popularity,Eigenfactor,Prestige,Hard and soft science,Impact factor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
1
1751-1577
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.98
11
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimo Franceschet165839.91