Who are the rising stars in academia?

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method named ScholarRank to evaluate the scientific impact of rising stars. Our proposed ScholarRank integrates the merits of both statistical indicators and influence calculation algorithms in heterogeneous academic networks. The ScholarRank method considers three factors, which are the citation counts of authors, the mutual influence among coauthors and the mutual reinforce process among different entities in heterogeneous academic networks. Through experiments on real datasets, we demonstrate that our ScholarRank can efficiently select more top ranking rising stars than other methods.