Resolved Question Determining the importance of a research paper? How do you tell if a research paper from a journal is important or not? I thought maybe using the Eigenfactor score and impact factor of the journal could be of some use, but then again, how do you know if a score/factor is considered to be significantly large? So, if an Eigenfactor score is 0.0089, is that significant? (I know how these numbers work, just don't know how to analyse them to judge their importance). What about an impact factor of 4.0?