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PageRank as a method to rank biomedical literature by importance.

Elliot J YatesLouise C Dixon
Published in: Source code for biology and medicine (2015)
PageRank can be trivially computed on commodity cluster hardware and is linearly correlated with citation count. Given its putative benefits in quantifying relative importance, we suggest it may enrich the citation network, thereby overcoming the existing inadequacy of citation counts alone. We thus suggest PageRank as a feasible supplement to, or replacement of, existing bibliometric ranking methods.
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