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Identifying the Academic Rising Stars

Predicting the fast-rising young researchers (Academic Rising Stars) in the future provides useful guidance to the research community, e.g., offering competitive candidates to university for young faculty hiring as they are expected to have success academic careers. In this work, given a set of young researchers who have published the first first-author paper recently, we solve the problem of h...

Rising Stars 2013 - Association for Psychological Science

My research focuses on the development of intergroup cognition from infancy through adolescence. In particular, I examine the development of intergroup attitudes and stereotypes across implicit and explicit levels of analysis. My work also examines how children’s conceptual representations of group membership (as an ingroup or an outgroup member) develop across these years and how such represen...

Searching for Rising Stars in Bibliography Networks

Identifying the rising stars is an important but difficult human resource exercise in all organizations. Rising stars are those who currently have relatively low profiles but may eventually emerge as prominent contributors to the organizations. In this paper, we propose a novel PubRank algorithm to identify rising stars in research communities by mining the social networks of researchers in ter...

Finding Rising Stars in Social Networks

This paper addresses the problem of finding rising stars in academic social networks. Rising stars are the authors which have low research profile in the beginning of their career but may become prominent contributors in the future. An effort for finding rising stars named PubRank is proposed, which considers mutual influence and static ranking of conferences or journals. In this work an improv...