Recently, the abundance of digital data is enabling the implementation of graph-based ranking algorithms that provide system level analysis for ranking publications and authors. Here, we take advantage of the entire Physical Review publication archive (1893-2006) to construct authors' networks where weighted edges, as measured from opportunely normalized citation counts, define a proxy for the ...

What are the first steps to write a scientific article? It is always important remember who authors of article should be, namely, people who: (1) helped conceive or design work; obtained, analyzed, interpreted research data; and (2) participated in writing manuscript critically reviewed it for intellectual content; (3) gave final approval version text be published; (4) agreed ensure that questi...

the scientific output of a researcher includes academic publications, creditability of these publications and number of citations. universities and institutions evaluating the research activities have always taken into account the academic status and ranking of the researchers. selection and application of an appropriate method to assess the academic activities have also been a concern for scie...

Understanding the nature and organization of scientific communities is broad interest. The `Invisible College' a historical metaphor for one such type community search `colleges' can be framed as detection analysis small groups scientists working on problems common interests. Case studies have previously been conducted individual with respect to their social behavior. In this study, we introduc...