The difference between popularity and prestige in the sciences and in the social sciences: A bibliometric analysis |
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| Authors: | Massimo Franceschet |
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| Institution: | 1. National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt;2. Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt;3. National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt;4. NanoTech Egypt for Photoelectronics, Dreamland, Giza, Egypt;1. Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK;2. Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, New Zealand;3. Department of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK;1. Centre for Online Health, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;2. Queensland Children''s Medical Research Institute, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;1. SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA;2. Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands;3. Digital Humanities Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | The status of a journal is commonly determined by two factors: popularity and prestige. While the former counts citations, the latter recursively weights them with the prestige of the citing journals. We make a thorough comparison of the bibliometric concepts of popularity and prestige for journals in the sciences and in the social sciences. We find that the two notions diverge more for the hard sciences, including physics, engineering, material sciences, and computer sciences, than they do for the geosciences, for biology-medical disciplines, and for the social sciences. Moreover, we identify the science and social science journals with the highest diverging ranks in popularity and prestige compilations. |
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