Author ranking based on personalized PageRank

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Highlights:

• Using publication citation networks gives better author orders than author networks.

• The uniform distribution of publication values among authors gives the best results.

• PageRank enriched by journal values is the best of our author-ranking methods.

• PageRank-based methods outperform all tested non-iterative approaches.

• H-index has low resolution and provides worse author ranking than publication count.

摘要

•Using publication citation networks gives better author orders than author networks.•The uniform distribution of publication values among authors gives the best results.•PageRank enriched by journal values is the best of our author-ranking methods.•PageRank-based methods outperform all tested non-iterative approaches.•H-index has low resolution and provides worse author ranking than publication count.

论文关键词:Citation analysis,Author ranking,PageRank,h-Index,Impact Factor,ISI Web of Science

论文评审过程:Received 4 February 2015, Revised 3 July 2015, Accepted 4 July 2015, Available online 2 September 2015, Version of Record 2 September 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.07.002