Hunter X Scholar – Finger out Famous Men in Your Research Area

As the growth of the WWW, scientists and researchers publishing their research information on the web may become an essential comportment in academia, an enormous number of web pages provide information on scientists, research papers, and technical documents in the Internet and indexed by search engines. For a junior student or junior researcher, it is a nontrivial task to know/search authoritative scholars (experts) in his research area. Since an interesting challenge arises, how to finger out the important scholars on a research topic? However, an excellent scholar searching system involves analysis of reputation, publication, citation, and activities among a large number of scholars. In this project, we present the design and implementation of a scholars searching system prototype based on a web mining approach. Our system computes the ranking of scholars that are relevant to a give research area, e.g. Data mining area, and shows out top-k scholars. We also proposed the p-index, a new ranking function for positioning scholars in a specific research field ranking. The ranking criteria of scholars are based on publications, citations by computing the query results from Google, Google Scholar. Based on the experimental results, our approach outperforms other existing approaches in a specific research field.