Promise and Pitfalls of Extending Google's PageRank Algorithm to Citation Networks
Physics and Society
2009-01-20 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
We review our recent work on applying the Google PageRank algorithm to find scientific "gems" among all Physical Review publications, and its extension to CiteRank, to find currently popular research directions. These metrics provide a meaningful extension to traditionally-used importance measures, such as the number of citations and journal impact factor. We also point out some pitfalls of over-relying on quantitative metrics to evaluate scientific quality.
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@article{arxiv.0901.2640,
title = {Promise and Pitfalls of Extending Google's PageRank Algorithm to Citation Networks},
author = {Sergei Maslov and S. Redner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2640},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, 1 figure, invited comment for the Journal of Neuroscience. The arxiv version is microscopically different from the published version