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In a blog posted on April Fool’s Day, Google announced a new feature to its Scholar service. This was no prank. It was the genuine debut of a new tool called Google Scholar Metrics. The service follows the same principle that has made Google’s web search engine so successful – when you are unsure what a user is looking for, give them a list of options ranked by a metric of popularity. In this instance, the users are academics ready to submit their next breakthrough but are uncertain which journal to choose. The solution Scholar Metrics offers is a database summarizing the sway of the distributors of scholarship “to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research“.

http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1788885/Google-starts-ranking-journals.html?goback=%2Egde_126125_member_108215611

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Course materials to consider for Information Retrieval Course.

Prof. Palazoo presents SNA  from the content aspects. In his continuous work on social interactions between users and content he proposed and developed a framework to evaluate the users’ qualification and reputation (paper

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This workshop (proceeding) is affiliated with the 5th  ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’11). It took place in Chicago, Illinois, USA on October 27th.

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Consider Google TechTalks as one of the best references that might give you ideas for innovative projects to consider if you are planning to write a Thesis or Dissertation: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks