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Home| Projects| Papers| About Eigenfactor Metrics Click HERE for our searchable database of Eigenfactor® and Article Influence® scores from 1997 to 2015. RESEARCH AREAS Scholarly Publishing Mapping Science Navigating Science Sociology of Science NEWS 20 Dec. Publication bias and the canonization of false facts Our latest paper looks at how publication bias influences what we "know" to be true. UW's press release provides further perspective. 8 Dec. Is CiteScore, the new Elsevier-Scopus alternative to Impact Factor, favorable to Elsevier journals? We investigate the new Elsevier metric, CiteScore, used for evaluating journals. 1 Aug. The Washington Post on our self-citation study The Washington Post story begins "A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves." 22 July Spanning the old-new media spectrum. Stories from The Times of London (paywalled) and Vice Media's Motherboard on our self-citation study. 5 July Nature on Self-Citation Nature featured our paper on gender differences in self citation. 18 June The Economist on the Viziometrics project The Economist published an article describing our Viziometrics.org project. 27 May The MIT Technology Review on viziometrics.org Our Viziometrics.org labeled as "The First Visual Search Engine for Scientific Diagrams" by MIT Technology Review. 18 MayModeling Science, Technology and Innovation Conference Carl Bergstrom presented his work on why scientists chase big problems at the Modeling Science, Technology & Innovation Conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Video of the talk is now available, as are the slides. 25 MarchInternational Symposium on Science of Science at the Library of Congress Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West each presented work from the Eigenfactor project at the International Symposium on Science of Science this week in Washington, DC. View Carl's slides and Jevin's slides. 11 Feb. The 2014 Journal Rankings are now available. The 2014 rankings include the Eigenfactor and Article Influence Scores.. Contact | Terms of Use | University of Washington iframe {vertical-align:top;} Follow @eigenfactor