A Recommendation System for Finding Experts in Online Scientific Communities

Javadi, S.; Safa, R.; Azizi, M.; Mirroshandel, Seyed A.

doi:10.22044/jadm.2020.9087.2045

Document Type : Original/Review Paper

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Department of Computer Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22044/jadm.2020.9087.2045

Abstract

Online scientific communities are bases that publish books, journals, and scientific papers, and help promote knowledge. The researchers use search engines to find the given information including scientific papers, an expert to collaborate with, and the publication venue, but in many cases due to search by keywords and lack of attention to the content, they do not achieve the desired results at the early stages. Online scientific communities can increase the system efficiency to respond to their users utilizing a customized search. In this paper, using a dataset including bibliographic information of user’s publication, the publication venues, and other published papers provided as a way to find an expert in a particular context where experts are recommended to a user according to his records and preferences. In this way, a user request to find an expert is presented with keywords that represent a certain expertise and the system output will be a certain number of ranked suggestions for a specific user. Each suggestion is the name of an expert who has been identified appropriate to collaborate with the user. In evaluation using IEEE database, the proposed method reached an accuracy of 71.50 percent that seems to be an acceptable result.

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A Recommendation System for Finding Experts in Online Scientific Communities

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Volume 8, Issue 4
November 2020
Pages 573-584