Finding scientific gems with Google's PageRank algorithm

P. Chen; H. Xie; S. Maslov; S. Redner

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2006.06.001

Finding scientific gems with Google's PageRank algorithm

P. Chen, H. Xie, S. Maslov, S. Redner

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Abstract

We apply the Google PageRank algorithm to assess the relative importance of all publications in the Physical Review family of journals from 1893 to 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	8-15
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Informetrics
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2006.06.001
State	Published - Jan 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Citations
Google PageRank algorithm
Physical Review
Scientific gems

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