Scoring the resourcefulness of researchers using bibliographic coupling patterns

Highlights：

• This study proposes an algorithm that scores the resourcefulness of authors by the references they cite.

• The resulting “author follow-score” algorithmis computed based on matrices constructed from reference and authorship data.

• It computes a “citing author to referred paper” similarity in contrast to HITS which uses “citing author similarity”.

• The algorithm can be used to identify interesting works referred to by “follow-worthy” authors.

• The algorithm can also be used to find similar pairs of authors by computing their bibliographic coupling similarity.