What is prominence?

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Calculating a Topic’s Prominence combines 3 metrics to indicate the momentum of the Topic:

• Citation Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1
• Scopus Views Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1
• Average CiteScore for year n

  • Year n is the last complete year
  • We look at all publications in the Topic from that year, identify the journals and use their CiteScore values
  • If there are 2 articles from year n from 1 journal in the Topic, that journal's CiteScore is counted twice 

Prominence gives an indication of momentum and is not a quality indicator. Due to the nature of certain research fields there are Topics which will never become "Prominent", however this is not mutually exclusive with the Topic not being important.

To see the prominence calculation for a Topic, click on the prominence value.