Measuring the relative standing of disciplinary journals

摘要

A measure of the relative standing of professional journals in an aggregated journal citation matrix is considered. The measure can be viewed as an iteration of inputoutput methods or as a normalized eigenvector of a transformation matrix. The measure is applied in a network of 22 geographical journals for 1970–1972 and 1980–1982. The relative locations of the journals in the network for each period are discussed as well as the relative and absolute changes between the two periods.