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PageRank was precisely invented to solve this issue. I have never understood why Google Scholar itself took stance not to even compute it and stick to h-index.
by sytelus 7y ago
PageRank was precisely invented to solve this issue. I have never understood why Google Scholar itself took stance not to even compute it and stick to h-index. Google Scholar is a defacto standard for looking up researchers and whatever metric they adopt would be adopted by the rest of the world.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoIt's frustrating to see science emasculating itself and rely on commercial, even monopolistic services when there is no lack of research in document search and comprehension. Ten or fifteen years ago there was citeseer for tracking citations. It was a messy Perl program/site to scan through mostly TeX files for metadata and references, yet it worked relatively well, and was held reasonably up-to-date. Then they rewrote it into CiteseerX, such that it became useless. It never recovered.
- Vinnl 7y agoDoesn't PageRank have the exact same problem of manipulation, where people link to other sites in order to prop those sites up, just like people cite articles to prop them (or their authors) up?