What is the value of a scientist and its impact upon the scientific thinking? How can we
measure the prestige of a journal or a conference? The evaluation of the scientific work of a …

In this article some recent disputes about the usefulness of PageRank-based methods for
the task of identifying influential researchers in citation networks are discussed. In particular …

In the past, recursive algorithms, such as PageRank originally conceived for the Web, have
been successfully used to rank nodes in the citation networks of papers, authors, or journals …

In this paper, we present several modifications of the classical PageRank formula adapted
for bibliographic networks. Our versions of PageRank take into account not only the citation …

Abstract Combining Social Network Analysis and recommender systems is a challenging
research field. In scientific communities, recommender systems have been applied to …

The total number of published articles and the resulting citations are generally
acknowledged as suitable criteria of the scientist's evaluation. However, it is challenging to …

In the work presented in this paper, we analyse ranking algorithms that can be applied to
bibliographic citation networks and rank academic entities such as papers and authors. We …

Expert finding is an information retrieval task that is concerned with the search for the most
knowledgeable people with respect to a specific topic, and the search is based on …

Citation analysis helps in evaluating the impact of scientific collections (journals and
conferences), publications and scholar authors. In this paper we examine known algorithms …

Assessing and evaluating the academic impact and its results produced by researchers is
necessary to promote the academic progress. A diverse and varied set of parameters have …