Contents and time sensitive document ranking of scientific literature

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Highlights:

• A new ranking framework better models the behaviour of readers of scientific papers.

• Dynamic adjustments of random walk parameters in terms of paper's contents and age.

• Scoring a paper with awareness of its diversity of topics and how they evolve.

• More effective than PageRank in ranking papers’ potential scientific utility.

• High practical value in retrieving and placing useful papers at the top of ranking

摘要

Highlights•A new ranking framework better models the behaviour of readers of scientific papers.•Dynamic adjustments of random walk parameters in terms of paper's contents and age.•Scoring a paper with awareness of its diversity of topics and how they evolve.•More effective than PageRank in ranking papers’ potential scientific utility.•High practical value in retrieving and placing useful papers at the top of ranking

论文关键词:Scientific document ranking,PageRank,Latent Dirichlet Allocation,Topical longevity,Information freshness,Local damping factor

论文评审过程:Received 18 December 2013, Revised 28 March 2014, Accepted 8 April 2014, Available online 13 May 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.04.006