Finding Scientific Gems with Google
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2007-05-23 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
We apply the Google PageRank algorithm to assess the relative importance of all publications in the Physical Review family of journals from 1893--2003. While the Google number and the number of citations for each publication are positively correlated, outliers from this linear relation identify some exceptional papers or "gems" that are universally familiar to physicists.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0604130,
title = {Finding Scientific Gems with Google},
author = {P. Chen and H. Xie and S. Maslov and S. Redner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0604130},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, 2-column revtex4 format