Suresh, V; Raghupathy, N; Shekar, B (Shekar, B.); Madhavan, CEV (Madhavan, C. E. Veni) Discovering mentorship information from author collaboration networks DISCOVERY SCIENCE, PROCEEDINGS 197-208, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email Address: vsuresh at csa.iisc.ernet.in

Author(s): Suresh, V (Suresh, V.); Raghupathy, N (Raghupathy, Narayanan); 
Shekar, B (Shekar, B.); Madhavan, CEV (Madhavan, C. E. Veni) 

Title: Discovering mentorship information from author collaboration 
networks 

Editor(s): Corruble, V; Takeda, M; Suzuki, E 

Source: DISCOVERY SCIENCE, PROCEEDINGS 197-208, 2007 

Book Series: LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 4755 

Language: English 

Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 10th International Conference on Discovery Science 

Conference Date: OCT 01-04, 2007 

Conference Location: Sendai, JAPAN 

Conference Sponsors: AF Off Sci Res, Asian Off Aerosp Res & Dev, Grad Sch 
Informat Sci
 
KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; INDEX 

Abstract: Researchers are assessed from a researcher-centric perspective - 
by quantifying a researcher's contribution to the field. Citation and 
publication counts are some typical examples. We propose a student-centric 
measure to assess researchers on their mentoring abilities. Our approach 
quantifies benefits bestowed by researchers upon their students by 
characterizing the publication dynamics of research advisor-student 
interactions in author collaboration networks. We show that our measures 
could help aspiring students identify research advisors with proven 
mentoring skills. Our measures also help in stratification of researchers 
with similar ranks based on typical indices like publication and citation 
counts while being independent of their direct influences. 

Addresses: Indian Inst Sci, Dept Comp Sci & Automat, Bangalore, Karnataka 
560012 India. 

Reprint Address: Suresh, V, Indian Inst Sci, Dept Comp Sci & Automat, 
Bangalore, Karnataka 560012 India. 

Cited Reference Count: 13 

Publisher Name: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN 

Publisher Address: HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY 

ISSN: 0302-9743 

ISBN: 978-3-540-75487-9 

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