An evolutionary PageRank approach for journal ranking with expert judgements

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 254-272

  Chen, Yen Liang ^a   Chen, Xiang Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

citation based approach; experts' survey method; journal ranking; PageRank; Particle Swarm Optimization

Indexed keywords

CITATION-BASED APPROACH; EXPERTS' SURVEY METHOD; JOURNAL RANKINGS; PAGERANK; PARTICLE SWARM;

ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SURVEYS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 79959258956     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551511402421     Document Type: Article

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