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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 15: Poster Session

SOE 15.16: Poster

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 16:50–17:50, Poster F

Ranking scientific publications by investigating the papers' wake — •David F. Klosik and Stefan Bornholdt — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee, 28359 Bremen

Organisations providing scientific resources have one major question to answer: How to assess a scholar's or institution's scientific quality? Due to its availability citation information concerning the individual publications is widely used as a proxy for scientific impact. The use of raw direct citations, however, has been criticized against for a long time, and there have been several concepts trying to tackle the shortcomings of direct citation counting by considering the network-character of the aggregate citation information (e.g. centrality measures like PageRank or CiteRank as used by Maslov and collaborators [1]).

Emphasizing pioneering publications that prepared the ground for a new line of research, we investigate a ranking scheme for scientific publications which is based on the paper's 'wake' in the citation network.

[1] D. Walker, H. Xie, K.-K. Yan, S. Maslov, Ranking scientific publications using a model of network traffic; J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P06010.