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Using PageRank to assess scientific importance
- Anon84 18y agoI'm surprised they have just now noticed this. Redner's and Maslov's papers have been making the rounds in academia for at least two or three years. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612122 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612122 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0604130 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0604130
- michael_nielsen 18y agoThis article is describing more recent work by Maslov and Redner, announced just in the last week or two: http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2640 http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2640
- andr 18y agoI'm surprised they have just noticed this, given that PageRank was originally created to rate scientific papers, not web pages!
- wheels 18y agoRather, PageRank comes from a family of algorithms called co-citation algorithms which first came about in library science before being used on the web. In fact, most of the groundwork for web search is from library science.
- eru 18y agoGet this shirt: http://www.jephdraw.com/random/libraryscience.png http://www.jephdraw.com/random/libraryscience.png
- RiderOfGiraffes 18y agoSee also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443746 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443746
- maurycy 18y agoI made a comment on this more than a year ago. ;-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78299 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78299