Evaluating scientific products by means of citation-based models: A first analysis and validation

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-16

  Bini, Dario A ^a   Del Corso, Gianna M ^a   Romani, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Impact factor; Page rank; Perron vector; Perturbation results

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

IMPACT FACTOR; IRREDUCIBLE MATRICES; PAGE RANKS; PERRON VECTORS; PERTURBATION RESULTS; SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; STOCHASTIC MATRICES;

LEARNING TO RANK;

EID: 73249138474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10689613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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