Scholarly reputation

Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration

Bibliographic digital libraries play a significant role in conducting research and, in the past few years, have started to move from closed to more open social platforms. However, in this, they have faced challenges (e.g., from Web spam) in maintaining the level of scholarly precision—the ratio of relevant citations retrieved by search. This paper describes a hybrid approach that uses online so...

Scholarly activities and reputation in the digital age: A conceptual framework

New ways of building, showcasing, and measuring scholarly reputation in the digital age

Journals and scholars build their reputation on citations. An array of citation measures has been developed, including citation counts for the individual scholar. Yet, over 50 activities that contribute to reputation building can be identified across five areas of scholarly activity: research, integration, application, teaching, and co-creation. In the past ten years new platforms have merged t...

Reputation Ontology for Reputation Systems

2 Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Broadway, Australia [email protected] Abstract. The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21 century will have a powerful social and economic impact on both business entities and individual customers, because it makes transparent quality assessment on products and services to achieve customer assurance...

Scholarly influence

We introduce a new class of measures of scholarly influence, which we term step-based indices. This class includes the prominent h-index, the publication count, and the i10-index. We show that the class of step-based indices is characterized by two axioms, consistency with worse scientists and consistency with better scientists. We also introduce a new index, the junior/senior-index, which is a...