Jennifer Hart
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Scopus Journal Metrics apply to over 20,000 journals, proceedings, and book series. They provide multidimensional insights into journal performance.
The journal impact factor measures the average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal each year.
Editors’ JIF-boosting stratagems – Which are appropriate and which not?
Editorial from Research Policy cautioning the ways in which researchers and editors can game the system to increase impact metrics.

The Eigenfactor score of a journal is an estimate of the percentage of time that library users spend with that journal. Borrowing methods from network theory, eigenfactor.org ranks the influence of journals much as Google’s PageRank algorithm ranks the influence of web pages. By this approach, journals are considered to be influential if they are cited often by other influential journals.