Liao, Hao and Xiao, Rui and Cimini, Giulio and Medo, Matúš Network-Driven Reputation in Online Scientific Communities. PloS One, 9 (12). e112022. ISSN 1932-6203 (2014)
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Abstract
The ever-increasing quantity and complexity of scientific production have made it difficult for researchers to keep track of advances in their own fields. This, together with growing popularity of online scientific communities, calls for the development of effective information filtering tools. We propose here an algorithm which simultaneously computes reputation of users and fitness of papers in a bipartite network representing an online scientific community. Evaluation on artificially-generated data and real data from the Econophysics Forum is used to determine the method's best-performing variants. We show that when the input data is extended to a multilayer network including users, papers and authors and the algorithm is correspondingly modified, the resulting performance improves on multiple levels. In particular, top papers have higher citation count and top authors have higher <italic>h</italic>-index than top papers and top authors chosen by other algorithms. We finally show that our algorithm is robust against persistent authors (spammers) which makes the method readily applicable to the existing online scientific communities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Identification Number: | 10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0112022 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Econolhysics, Algorithms, Social networks, Aging, Social research |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Research Area: | Economics and Institutional Change |
| Depositing User: | Caterina Tangheroni |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2015 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2015 12:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2849 |
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