A combined approach for evaluating papers, authors and scientific journals

Bini, Dario A. and Del Corso, Gianna M. and Romani, Francesco (2008) A combined approach for evaluating papers, authors and scientific journals. Technical Report del Dipartimento di Informatica . Università di Pisa, Pisa, IT.

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Abstract

An integrated model for ranking scientific publications together with authors and journals recently presented in [Bini, Del Corso, Romani,ETNA 2008]is closely analyzed. The model, which relies on certain adjacency matrices $H,K$ and $F$ obtained from the relations of citation,authorship and publication, provides the ranking by means of the Perron vector of a stochastic matrix obtained by combining $H,K$ and $F$. Some perturbation theorems concerning the Perron vector previously introduced by the authors are extended to more general cases and a counterexample to a property previously addressed by the authors is presented. The theoretical results confirm the consistency and effectiveness of our model. Some paradigmatic examples are reported together with some results obtained on a real set of data.

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