Eigenfactorizer

Color codes journals in PubMed according to their Eigenfactor Article Influence score (a measure of journal impact).
What is Eigenfactorizer?
Eigenfactorizer is a free Chrome extension that helps users filter content by color-coding journals in PubMed according to their impact measured by the Eigenfactor Score. Developed by Geoff Davis, Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, this tool will soon be extended to individual articles. It uses a vast database of more than 16 million citations to provide a reliable influence score of the content. Notably, user's search results are not collected, ensuring privacy.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.14 (7)
Version: 0.99.5 (Last updated: 2014-12-22)
Creation date: 2014-12-22
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://www.eigenfactor.org/
Size: 2.54M

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Extension summary

This tool helps pubmed users filter content. The tool ranks journals based on the Eigenfactor Score and then colors the journals accordingly. Users can quickly glance at the colors to identify high influential journals. We will be extending this to articles in the near future.

The journal and article-level rankings are based on pubmed content. This includes more than 16 million citations from more than 5 million citing papers and cited references.

This is a free tool developed by Geoff Davis at Google, Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington.

Privacy notice. We do not collect information about a users search results.

If you have questions, please visit www.eigenfactor.org.

User reviews

Muy útil!

so cool... finally a visual impact score that come so easely to attention... thanks
by druid manus, 2016-05-23

I can see the colors for the journals on pubmed, so it works well for me.
by Alexander Lazar, 2016-05-09
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Eigenfactorizer requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Eigenfactorizer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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