Using the H-Index to estimate blog authority

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

José Devezas (Author) FEUP; Sérgio Nunes (Author) FEUP; Cristina Ribeiro (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, July 17-21, 2011

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-008-RB2

Abstract (EN): Link analysis is a technique frequently used in the ranking of web sites. On the web, we often encounter content that is organized by entries, sorted from recent to old, and generally follows the structure of a blog. In this paper we explore and evaluate the usage of a bibliometrics measure, called hindex, for the task of blog ranking, in an information retrieval context. We base our experiments on the TREC Blogs08 collection, which comprises over 28 million posts. The results obtained indicate that the h-index is a robust metric that allows for an improved relevance discrimination between blogs, when compared to the in-degree. Additionally, tests performed using distinct versions of the post graph, indicate that this metric might tolerate a certain level of link clutter.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4