Paper Info
Title
Ranking authors in academic social networks: a survey.
Abstract
Purpose - This study reviews the methods found in the literature for the ranking of authors, identifies the pros and cons of these methods, discusses and compares these methods. The purpose of this paper is to study is to find the challenges and future directions of ranking of academic objects, especially authors, for future researchers. Design/methodology/approach - This study reviews the methods found in the literature for the ranking of authors, classifies them into subcategories by studying and analyzing their way of achieving the objectives, discusses and compares them. The data sets used in the literature and the evaluation measures applicable in the domain are also presented. Findings - The survey identifies the challenges involved in the field of ranking of authors and future directions. Originality/value - To the best of the knowledge, this is the first survey that studies the author ranking problem in detail and classifies them according to their key functionalities, features and way of achieving the objective according to the requirement of the problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1108/LHT-05-2017-0090
LIBRARY HI TECH
Keywords
Field
DocType
Academic social networks,Author ranking,Expert finding,Learning-based ranking,Link analysis,Text similarity ranking
Data science,World Wide Web,Social network,Ranking,Computer science,Link analysis,Originality
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36.0
1.0
0737-8831
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
51
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tehmina Amjad1957.96
Ali Daud231330.17
Naif Radi Aljohani315927.35