BIP! Ranker: A Software Library for Citation-Based Impact Indicators on Large-Scale Graphs
Digital Libraries
2026-08-03 v1 Information Retrieval
Abstract
Scientific impact is multidimensional: overall influence, current popularity, early citation momentum, and field-relative performance each capture a distinct facet of a publication's impact. Yet, in practice, these dimensions are often reduced to a single metric, such as citation count. Open solutions for computing multiple complementary impact indicators at scale remain scarce, particularly for citation graphs as large as those provided by major scholarly databases. We introduce BIP! Ranker, an open-source, Spark-based library for computing citation-based impact indicators at scale, capable of processing citation networks with billions of citations among hundreds of millions of publications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2608.02004,
title = {BIP! Ranker: A Software Library for Citation-Based Impact Indicators on Large-Scale Graphs},
author = {Ilias Kanellos and Serafeim Chatzopoulos and Thanasis Vergoulis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02004},
year = {2026}
}