diff --git a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateConfig.java b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateConfig.java
index 1d30e005aa..71b2d2d8e7 100644
--- a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateConfig.java
+++ b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateConfig.java
@@ -26,19 +26,7 @@
 @Configuration
 public interface PageRankMutateConfig extends PageRankConfig, MutateNodePropertyConfig {
 
-    private static PageRankMutateConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput, boolean checkDampingFactor) {
-        if (checkDampingFactor && userInput.containsKey("dampingFactor")) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected configuration key: dampingFactor");
-        }
-
+    static PageRankMutateConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
         return new PageRankMutateConfigImpl(userInput);
     }
-
-    static PageRankMutateConfig configWithDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, false);
-    }
-
-    static PageRankMutateConfig configWithoutDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, true);
-    }
 }
diff --git a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsConfig.java b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsConfig.java
index d8b8111b61..69169e71d1 100644
--- a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsConfig.java
+++ b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsConfig.java
@@ -25,20 +25,7 @@
 @Configuration
 public interface PageRankStatsConfig extends PageRankConfig {
 
-   private static PageRankStatsConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput, boolean checkDampingFactor) {
-        if (checkDampingFactor && userInput.containsKey("dampingFactor")) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected configuration key: dampingFactor");
-        }
+   public static PageRankStatsConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
         return new PageRankStatsConfigImpl(userInput);
     }
-
-     static PageRankStatsConfig configWithDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-       return of(userInput, false);
-    }
-
-     static PageRankStatsConfig configWithoutDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, true);
-    }
-
-
 }
diff --git a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamConfig.java b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamConfig.java
index 1e89175550..d4736c8415 100644
--- a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamConfig.java
+++ b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamConfig.java
@@ -25,19 +25,8 @@
 @Configuration
 public interface PageRankStreamConfig extends PageRankConfig {
 
-    private static PageRankStreamConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput, boolean checkDampingFactor) {
-        if (checkDampingFactor && userInput.containsKey("dampingFactor")) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected configuration key: dampingFactor");
-        }
-
+    static PageRankStreamConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
         return new PageRankStreamConfigImpl(userInput);
     }
 
-    static PageRankStreamConfig configWithDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, false);
-    }
-
-    static PageRankStreamConfig configWithoutDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, true);
-    }
 }
diff --git a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteConfig.java b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteConfig.java
index 8fbec11dbe..ba4c85f766 100644
--- a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteConfig.java
+++ b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteConfig.java
@@ -26,18 +26,7 @@
 @Configuration
 public interface PageRankWriteConfig extends PageRankConfig, WritePropertyConfig {
 
-   private  static PageRankWriteConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput, boolean checkDampingFactor) {
-        if (checkDampingFactor && userInput.containsKey("dampingFactor")) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected configuration key: dampingFactor");
-        }
+   public static PageRankWriteConfig of(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
         return new PageRankWriteConfigImpl(userInput);
     }
-
-    static PageRankWriteConfig configWithDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, false);
-    }
-
-    static PageRankWriteConfig configWithoutDampingFactor(CypherMapWrapper userInput) {
-        return of(userInput, true);
-    }
 }
diff --git a/applications/algorithms/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/applications/algorithms/centrality/CentralityAlgorithmsEstimationModeBusinessFacade.java b/applications/algorithms/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/applications/algorithms/centrality/CentralityAlgorithmsEstimationModeBusinessFacade.java
index cc04548354..b72e00fbfb 100644
--- a/applications/algorithms/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/applications/algorithms/centrality/CentralityAlgorithmsEstimationModeBusinessFacade.java
+++ b/applications/algorithms/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/applications/algorithms/centrality/CentralityAlgorithmsEstimationModeBusinessFacade.java
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 import org.neo4j.gds.influenceMaximization.CELFMemoryEstimateDefinition;
 import org.neo4j.gds.influenceMaximization.InfluenceMaximizationBaseConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.mem.MemoryEstimation;
-import org.neo4j.gds.pagerank.PageRankConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.pagerank.PageRankMemoryEstimateDefinition;
+import org.neo4j.gds.pagerank.RankConfig;
 
 public class CentralityAlgorithmsEstimationModeBusinessFacade {
     private final AlgorithmEstimationTemplate algorithmEstimationTemplate;
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public MemoryEstimation pageRank() {
         return new PageRankMemoryEstimateDefinition().memoryEstimation();
     }
 
-    public MemoryEstimateResult pageRank(PageRankConfig configuration, Object graphNameOrConfiguration) {
+    public MemoryEstimateResult pageRank(RankConfig configuration, Object graphNameOrConfiguration) {
         var memoryEstimation = pageRank();
 
         return algorithmEstimationTemplate.estimate(
diff --git a/pipeline/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/ml/pipeline/ConfigurationParsersForMutateMode.java b/pipeline/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/ml/pipeline/ConfigurationParsersForMutateMode.java
index d63332c2de..7ab3cfc8bc 100644
--- a/pipeline/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/ml/pipeline/ConfigurationParsersForMutateMode.java
+++ b/pipeline/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/ml/pipeline/ConfigurationParsersForMutateMode.java
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 import org.neo4j.gds.louvain.LouvainMutateConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.ml.splitting.SplitRelationshipsMutateConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.modularityoptimization.ModularityOptimizationMutateConfig;
+import org.neo4j.gds.pagerank.ArticleRankMutateConfig;
+import org.neo4j.gds.pagerank.EigenvectorMutateConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.pagerank.PageRankMutateConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.paths.astar.config.ShortestPathAStarMutateConfig;
 import org.neo4j.gds.paths.bellmanford.AllShortestPathsBellmanFordMutateConfig;
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ public Function<CypherMapWrapper, AlgoBaseConfig> lookup(Algorithm algorithm) {
         return switch (algorithm) {
             case AllShortestPaths -> null;
             case ApproximateMaximumKCut -> ApproxMaxKCutMutateConfig::of;
-            case ArticleRank -> PageRankMutateConfig::configWithDampingFactor;
+            case ArticleRank -> ArticleRankMutateConfig::of;
             case ArticulationPoints -> ArticulationPointsMutateConfig::of;
             case AStar -> ShortestPathAStarMutateConfig::of;
             case BellmanFord -> AllShortestPathsBellmanFordMutateConfig::of;
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ public Function<CypherMapWrapper, AlgoBaseConfig> lookup(Algorithm algorithm) {
             case DeltaStepping -> AllShortestPathsDeltaMutateConfig::of;
             case DFS -> DfsMutateConfig::of;
             case Dijkstra -> ShortestPathDijkstraMutateConfig::of;
-            case EigenVector -> PageRankMutateConfig::configWithoutDampingFactor;
+            case EigenVector -> EigenvectorMutateConfig::of;
             case FastRP -> FastRPMutateConfig::of;
             case FilteredKNN -> FilteredKnnMutateConfig::of;
             case FilteredNodeSimilarity -> FilteredNodeSimilarityMutateConfig::of;
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ public Function<CypherMapWrapper, AlgoBaseConfig> lookup(Algorithm algorithm) {
             case ModularityOptimization -> ModularityOptimizationMutateConfig::of;
             case NodeSimilarity -> NodeSimilarityMutateConfig::of;
             case Node2Vec -> Node2VecMutateConfig::of;
-            case PageRank -> PageRankMutateConfig::configWithDampingFactor;
+            case PageRank -> PageRankMutateConfig::of;
             case RandomWalk -> null;
             case ScaleProperties -> ScalePropertiesMutateConfig::of;
             case SCC -> SccMutateConfig::of;
diff --git a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateSpec.java b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateSpec.java
index 5be16b1800..6fef0de696 100644
--- a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateSpec.java
+++ b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankMutateSpec.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public PageRankAlgorithmFactory<PageRankMutateConfig> algorithmFactory(Execution
 
     @Override
     public NewConfigFunction<PageRankMutateConfig> newConfigFunction() {
-        return (___, config) -> PageRankMutateConfig.configWithDampingFactor(config);
+        return (___, config) -> PageRankMutateConfig.of(config);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsSpec.java b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsSpec.java
index 5a96495bac..506db2be6c 100644
--- a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsSpec.java
+++ b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStatsSpec.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public PageRankAlgorithmFactory<PageRankStatsConfig> algorithmFactory(ExecutionC
 
     @Override
     public NewConfigFunction<PageRankStatsConfig> newConfigFunction() {
-        return (___, config) -> PageRankStatsConfig.configWithDampingFactor(config);
+        return (___, config) -> PageRankStatsConfig.of(config);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamSpec.java b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamSpec.java
index 6d6c6cd803..f7b1325b67 100644
--- a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamSpec.java
+++ b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankStreamSpec.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public PageRankAlgorithmFactory<PageRankStreamConfig> algorithmFactory(Execution
 
     @Override
     public NewConfigFunction<PageRankStreamConfig> newConfigFunction() {
-        return (___,config) -> PageRankStreamConfig.configWithDampingFactor(config);
+        return (___,config) -> PageRankStreamConfig.of(config);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteSpec.java b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteSpec.java
index 9192183b9c..4cab577695 100644
--- a/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteSpec.java
+++ b/proc/centrality/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/pagerank/PageRankWriteSpec.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public PageRankAlgorithmFactory<PageRankWriteConfig> algorithmFactory(ExecutionC
 
     @Override
     public NewConfigFunction<PageRankWriteConfig> newConfigFunction() {
-        return (___,config) -> PageRankWriteConfig.configWithDampingFactor(config);
+        return (___,config) -> PageRankWriteConfig.of(config);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/procedures/algorithms-facade/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/procedures/algorithms/centrality/CentralityProcedureFacade.java b/procedures/algorithms-facade/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/procedures/algorithms/centrality/CentralityProcedureFacade.java
index 7a8e920715..c02a363b66 100644
--- a/procedures/algorithms-facade/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/procedures/algorithms/centrality/CentralityProcedureFacade.java
+++ b/procedures/algorithms-facade/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/procedures/algorithms/centrality/CentralityProcedureFacade.java
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ public static CentralityProcedureFacade create(
             estimationModeBusinessFacade,
             procedureReturnColumns,
             mutateModeBusinessFacade::pageRank,
-            PageRankMutateConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankMutateConfig::of
 
         );
 
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> articleRankStatsEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankStatsConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            ArticleRankStatsConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> articleRankStreamEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankStreamConfig::configWithoutDampingFactor
+            ArticleRankStreamConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> articleRankWriteEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankWriteConfig::configWithoutDampingFactor
+            ArticleRankWriteConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> eigenvectorStatsEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankStatsConfig::configWithoutDampingFactor
+            EigenvectorStatsConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> eigenvectorStreamEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankStreamConfig::configWithoutDampingFactor
+            EigenvectorStreamConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> eigenvectorWriteEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankWriteConfig::configWithoutDampingFactor
+            EigenvectorWriteConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ public Stream<PageRankStatsResult> pageRankStats(String graphName, Map<String, O
 
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             configuration,
-            PageRankStatsConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankStatsConfig::of
         );
 
         return statsModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> pageRankStatsEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankStatsConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankStatsConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ public Stream<CentralityStreamResult> pageRankStream(String graphName, Map<Strin
 
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             configuration,
-            PageRankStreamConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankStreamConfig::of
         );
 
         return streamModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> pageRankStreamEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankStreamConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankStreamConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));
@@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ public Stream<PageRankWriteResult> pageRankWrite(String graphName, Map<String, O
 
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             configuration,
-            PageRankWriteConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankWriteConfig::of
         );
 
         return writeModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ public Stream<MemoryEstimateResult> pageRankWriteEstimate(
     ) {
         var parsedConfiguration = configurationParser.parseConfiguration(
             algorithmConfiguration,
-            PageRankWriteConfig::configWithDampingFactor
+            PageRankWriteConfig::of
         );
 
         return Stream.of(estimationModeBusinessFacade.pageRank(parsedConfiguration, graphNameOrConfiguration));