Editor's Summary
16 February 2006
Top ranking
You can't keep a good algorithm down. Already a cover story this week, Google is in the news again. Its PageRank algorithm is one of the new 'status indices' being proposed as rivals to the familiar concept of impact factors as a tool for rating science journals.
News: Prestige is factored into journal ratings
'Y-factor' measures quality as well as quantity of citations.
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/439770a
