What is Eigenfactor™?
Eigenfactor™ is a weighted measure of an author’s citations. It adjusts for the number of authors of the paper, the number of outgoing citations from each paper citing an author’s paper and for the importance of the citing paper as measured by its Eigenfactor™ Score. All self citations are eliminated in calculating an author’s Eigenfactor™ Score. The Score reported in the SSRN ranking tables is calculated from SSRN citation data only. To understand how this importance-weighting works, consider the following iterated voting procedure. “Each author begins with a single vote and passes it on, dividing the vote equally among those authors whom she cites. After one round of this procedure, some authors will receive more votes than others. In the second round, each author passes on her current vote total, as received in the previous round, again dividing this quantity equally among those authors whom she cites. This process is iterated indefinitely. Eventually, we reach a steady state in whi
