A Unique Resiliency Among Journal Indicators: Pinski-Narin Influence Weights (IWs) & Self-Citations
Eugene Garfield’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has become the global currency for an academic journal’s scientific standing, serving as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. This metric is derived from the total number of citations of all its eligible articles published during the previous two years divided by the […]
Using PageRank to Predict Sports Game Wins
In class, we discussed PageRank as being like a “fluid” in that it flows throughout the network and collects at the nodes, or pages, that are most important. PageRank operates by quantifying the number and quality of links to a page find out how important that page is. Thus, more important webpages are likely to […]
The Stock Market and Network Structure
Links: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927539810000368 Network, especially network structure, is highly applicable to a lot of common things in the real world. In A network perspective of the stock market, the authors investigate the links between each stock and attempt to construct a large network made up of stocks that influence each other in United States. I will […]
Google Search Monopoly
https://www.wabe.org/google-paid-apple-billions-to-dominate-search-on-iphones-justice-department-says/ The justice department has a lawsuit against google recently for its monopoly power. Justice department says that Google had a deal with apple to have all apple devices have their default engine set as Google’s search engine. Apple also derives 1/5 of their revenue due to their collaboration with Google according to the article. […]