IRank: A term-based innovation ranking system for conferences and scholars

Zhixu Li*, Xiaoyong Du, Hongyan Liu, Jun He, Xiaofang Zhou

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Since the proposition of Journal Impact Factor [1] in 1963, the classical citation-based ranking scheme has been a standard criterion to rank journals and conferences. However, the reference of a paper cannot list all relevant publications and the citation relationships are not always available especially when related to copyright problem. Besides, we cannot evaluate a newly published paper before it is cited by others. Therefore, we propose an alternative method, term-based evaluation scheme which can evaluate publications by terms they use. Then we can rank conferences, journals and scholars accordingly. We think this term-based ranking scheme can be used to evaluate innovation quality for conferences and scholars. To evaluate our scheme and to facilitate its application, we develop an innovation ranking system called IRank to rank conferences and authors in the field of Database Systems. The performance of IRank demonstrates the effectiveness of our scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Data and Web Management - Joint International Conferences, APWeb/WAIM 2009, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages126-137
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783642006715
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
EventJoint International Conference on Advances in Data and Web Management, APWeb/WAIM 2009 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 2 Apr 20094 Apr 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5446
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceJoint International Conference on Advances in Data and Web Management, APWeb/WAIM 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period2/04/094/04/09

Keywords

  • IRank
  • Innovation quality
  • Ranking system
  • Term-based

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