Digital Reputation Indicator: a webometric approach for a global ranking of digital media Trillo Domínguez, Magdalena Salaverría, Ramón Codina, Lluís De Moya Anegón, Félix SCimago Ranking Journalism Digital news media Digital reputation Audiences Webometrics This work forms part of the new line of investigation driven by the SCImago Research Group for the study and evaluation of digital media at a global scale, and by the CUVICOM project (Parameters and strategies to increase the relevance of media and digital communication in society: curation, visualisation and visibility PID2021-123579OB-I00 (MICINN). Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation). In this article we present the Digital Reputation Indicator (DRI), an innovative methodological tool that allows evaluating and comparing the reputation of digital news media on a global scale. In use since January 2023 by SCImago Media Rankings (scimagomedia.com), DRI is a composite assessment and measurement instrument that weighs web metrics originating from trusted, stable, and globally accessible sources. DRI provides a resource for the qualitative comparison of digital media according to a webometric model based on its level of citation by other websites (citationflow), the quality of the sites that link to the media (trustflow) and the level of authority scores associated with their domain (domain rating and authority score). This article explores the reliability of this webometric approach, which overcomes the limitations of the two media measurement paradigms used up to now: the most traditional, based on audience measurement, and the most recent, oriented towards popularity in social networks. In this article we present and test the consistency of the DRI as a resource for the building of a global ranking of digital media, an instrument that we consider to be of interest to both the academic and professional communities. 2024-04-08T09:55:45Z 2024-04-08T09:55:45Z 2024-03-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Trillo-Domínguez, M., Salaverría, R., Codina, L., & De Moya-Anegón, F. (2024). Digital reputation indicator: A webometric approach for a global ranking of digital media. Journalism, https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241237647 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90477 10.1177/14648849241237647 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional SAGE Journals