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Re:German research institutions boycott Elsevier by hyperpallium on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:24PM (#13189659)
The second one is the hard one, because prestige is the very thing they have.

Something like PageRank (itself a citation-weighting scheme) should do it, based not on the coarse-grained prestige of editor-gatekeeper publishers, but the fine-grained prestige of researcher-authors and the work itself.

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Re:German research institutions boycott Elsevier by dr_coffee on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:57AM (#13193626)
The Eigenfactor is a metric for ranking journals that uses an algorithm similar to PageRank http://www.eigenfactor.org/index.php and is one of the many metrics competing to replace IF
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