Discussion
The ............................... is the best indicator of the total importance of a journal to researchers.
Answer: C
The best indicator of total importance is the Eigenfactor.
The Eigenfactor score, developed by Carl Bergstrom and colleagues, measures a journal's total importance to the scientific community. It counts citations over five years, weights them by the importance of the citing journals (much as Google's PageRank does), excludes self-citations, and grows with the number of important articles a journal publishes.
The Impact Factor measures average citations per article over two years, an indicator of average rather than total importance. The g-index is an author-level measure related to the h-index. 'Garfield quotient' is not an established indicator, though Eugene Garfield devised the impact factor.
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