Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<div class="entry-head"><h3 class="entry-title"><a href="http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/journal-impact-factor-visualisation/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to &quot;Journal Impact Factor&nbsp;Visualisation&quot;">Journal Impact Factor&nbsp;Visualisation</a></h3> <small class="entry-meta"> <span class="chronodata"> Published <abbr class="published" title="2008-08-26T19:56:38+0000">August 26, 2008</abbr> </span> <span class="entry-category"> <a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/visualisation/" title="View all posts in Visualisation" rel="category tag">Visualisation</a></span> <br> </small> <!-- .entry-meta --> </div> <!-- .entry-head --> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="snap_preview"><p>Whilst looking around for inspiration for things that could go into a mashup to jazz up the OU repository, I came across the rather wonderful <a href="http://www.eigenfactor.org/">eigenfactor.org</a> which provides an alternative (the &#x201c;eigenfactor&#x201d;) to the <a href="http://www.thomsonreuters.com/business_units/scientific/free/essays/impactfactor/">Thompson Scientific Impact Factor</a> measure of academic journal &#x201c;weight&#x201d;.</p></div></div>