Application of Time-Weighted PageRank Method with Citation Intensity for Assessing the Recent Publication Productivity and Partners Selection in R&D Collaboration
Biloshchytskyi A. Kuchanskyi O. Mukhatayev A. Andrashko Y. Toxanov S. Faizullin A. Kassenov K.
December 2024Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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This article considers the problem of assessing the recent publication productivity of scientists based on PageRank class methods and proposes to use these assessments to solve the problem of selecting scientific partners for R&D projects. The methods of PageRank, Time-Weighted PageRank, and the Time-Weighted PageRank method with Citation Intensity (TWPR-CI) were used as a basis for calculating the publication productivity of individual subjects or scientists. For verification, we used the Citation Network Dataset (Ver. 14) of more than 5 million STEM publications with 36 million citations. The dataset is based on data from ACM, DBLP, and Microsoft Academic Graph databases. Only those individual subjects who published at least two articles after 2000, with at least one of these articles cited at least once before 2023 year, were analyzed. Thus, the number of individual subjects was reduced to 1,042,122, and the number of scientific publications was reduced to 2,422,326. For each of the methods, a range of estimates of productivity is indicated, which are obtained as a result and possible options for making decisions on the selection of potential individual subjects as performers of R&D projects. One of the key advantages of the TWPR-CI method is that it gives priority to those researchers who have recently published and been cited frequently in their respective research areas. This ensures that the best potential R&D project executors are selected, which should minimize the impact of subjective factors on this choice. We believe that the proposed concept for selecting potential R&D project partners could help to reduce the risks associated with these projects and facilitate the involvement of the most suitable specialists in the relevant area of knowledge.
citation intensity , individual subjects , partner selection process , publication productivity , R&D , scholarly communication , scientific research , Time-Weighted PageRank
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University Administration Office, Astana IT University, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
Department of Information Technology, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Kyiv, 03037, Ukraine
Department of Computational and Data Science, Astana IT University, 010000, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of Information Control Systems and Technologies, Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, 88000, Ukraine
Department of Biomedical Cybernetics, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, 03056, Ukraine
Department of Social Disciplines, Astana IT University, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
National Higher Education Development Center, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
Department of System Analysis and Optimization Theory, Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, 88000, Ukraine
Center of Competence and Excellence, Astana IT University, 010000, Astana, Kazakhstan
Quality Assurance Department, Astana IT University, 010000, Astana, Kazakhstan
University Administration Office
Department of Information Technology
Department of Computational and Data Science
Department of Information Control Systems and Technologies
Department of Biomedical Cybernetics
Department of Social Disciplines
National Higher Education Development Center
Department of System Analysis and Optimization Theory
Center of Competence and Excellence
Quality Assurance Department
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