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Diffusion Of Scientific Credits And The Ranking Of Scientists, Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato, Benjamin Markines, Alessandro Vespignani
Diffusion Of Scientific Credits And The Ranking Of Scientists, Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato, Benjamin Markines, Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani
Recently, the abundance of digital data is enabling the implementation of graph-based ranking algorithms that provide system level analysis for ranking publications and authors. Here, we take advantage of the entire Physical Review publication archive (1893-2006) to construct authors' networks where weighted edges, as measured from opportunely normalized citation counts, define a proxy for the mechanism of scientific credit transfer. On this network, we define a ranking method based on a diffusion algorithm that mimics the spreading of scientific credits on the network. We compare the results obtained with our algorithm with those obtained by local measures such as the …