Measuring the academic reputation through citation networks via PageRank

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Highlights:

• We built 5 institutional citation networks for 5 WoS categories, featuring on average 400 institutions & 40,000 citations.

• We obtain 5 Academic Rankings, one for each WoS category, by applying the PageRank algorithm on the citation networks.

• Our results are found to correlate with the ARWU Subject Rankings mapping to the 5 WoS categories analysed.

摘要

•We built 5 institutional citation networks for 5 WoS categories, featuring on average 400 institutions & 40,000 citations.•We obtain 5 Academic Rankings, one for each WoS category, by applying the PageRank algorithm on the citation networks.•Our results are found to correlate with the ARWU Subject Rankings mapping to the 5 WoS categories analysed.

论文关键词:Page Rank,Academic reputation,Citation Impact,Academic rankings,Citation Networks

论文评审过程:Received 23 March 2018, Revised 20 November 2018, Accepted 2 December 2018, Available online 1 January 2019, Version of Record 1 January 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.12.001