The Best Nurturers in Computer Science Research
M. Bharath Kumar and Y.N. srikant

IISc-CSA-TR-2004-10
(October 2004)

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Filed on October 16, 2004
Updated on October 16, 2004


The paper presents a heuristic for mining nurturers in temporally
organized collaboration networks: people who facilitate the growth and
success of the young ones. Specifically, this heuristic is applied to the
computer science bibliographic data to find the best nurturers in computer
science research. The measure of success is parameterized, and the paper
demonstrates experiments and results with publication count and citations
as success metrics. Rather than just the nurturer's success, the heuristic
captures the influence he has had in the independent success of the
relatively young in the network. These results can hence be a useful
resource to graduate students and post-doctoral candidates. The heuristic
is extended to accurately yield ranked nurturers inside a particular time
period. Interestingly, there is a recognizable deviation between the
rankings of the most successful researchers and the best nurturers, which
although is obvious from a social perspective has not been statistically
demonstrated.


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