Searching for rising stars in bibliography networks

Abstr act. Identifying the rising stars is an important but difficult human resource exercise in all organizations. Rising stars are those who currently have relatively low profiles but may eventually emerge as prominent contributors to the organizations. In this paper, we investigate the problem of identifying rising stars in research communities by mining the social networks of researchers in terms of their co-authorship relationships. We propose a novel PubRank algorithm to mine the evolving links in the social network of researchers modeled by the bibliography network. Our method takes into account the mutual influence of various players in the network, the quality of their publications, as well as the dynamic features of the network over time. Experimental results show that PubRank algorithm can be used to effectively mine the bibliography networks to search for rising stars in the research communities