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A Quick and Effective Method for Ranking Authors in Academic Social Network

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Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 308))

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Effectively and efficiently ranking authors is a significant work in academic social network analysis. This paper investigates this problem and proposes a feasible method, QRank. First, QRank computes the initial rank score of an author based on the qualities of papers as well as the contributions of the author to those papers. In this step, QRank emphasizes the contribution of first author of a paper and can deal with the situation that only one author presents on a paper. Then, QRank refines the rank score of each author by the mutual influence between authors. Experimental results show QRank is the fast method and obtains better ranking results than the compared methods.

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  1. School of Information Science & Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

    Longjie Li, Xiaoping Wang, Peng Lei, Min Ma & Xiaoyun Chen

  2. Gansu Computing Center, Lanzhou, China

    Qibin Zhang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, Florida, USA

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  3. School of IT Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu, Kyungsan-shi, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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Li, L., Wang, X., Zhang, Q., Lei, P., Ma, M., Chen, X. (2014). A Quick and Effective Method for Ranking Authors in Academic Social Network. In: Park, J., Chen, SC., Gil, JM., Yen, N. (eds) Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54900-7_26

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