Existing models for ranking documents(mostly in world wide web) are prestige based. In this article, three algorithms to objectively judge the merit of a document are proposed - 1) Citation graph maxflow 2) Recursive Gloss Overlap based intrinsic merit scoring and 3) Interview algorithm. A short discussion on generic judgement and its mathematical treatment is presented in introduction to motivate these algorithms.
@article{arxiv.1006.4458,
title = {Few Algorithms for ascertaining merit of a document and their applications},
author = {Ka. Shrinivaasan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4458},
year = {2010}
}