delphi as a consensus development technique enables anonymous, systematic refinement of expert opinion with the aim of arriving at a combined or consensual position. in this study, we determined the criteria and their weights for iranian medical schools' ranking through a delphi process. an expert committee devised 13 proposed criteria with 32 indicators with their weights, which were arranged ...

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Glossary Ranking: sort objects according to some order. Query-dependent ranking: objects are assigned with different ranks according to different queries. Proximity ranking: objects are ranked according to proximity or similarity to other objects. Homogeneous information network: networks that contain one type of objects and one type of relationships. Heterogeneous information network: networks...