A new way of ranking scientists
NOV 19, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023857
APS Physics : Most metrics of a scientist’s impact in a field, like the h-index , rely primarily on the number of times his or her papers have been cited, and can miss the more subtle ways that knowledge and credit for this research spread among scientists. Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato , Benjamin Markines , and Alessandro Vespignani are instead proposing a way to rank scientists that reflects the diffusion of scientific credit in time.Their method, based on an algorithm similar to Google’s PageRank , takes into account several nontrivial effects such as the fact that being cited by an important author has more influence than being cited by one who is less well known. Related Link Diffusion of scientific credits and the ranking of scientists
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