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Re^3: Node trackbacks?

by holli (Abbot)
on Aug 09, 2006 at 09:29 UTC ( [id://566405]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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Yes, that and one can also see it as a measure of popularity/quality. Making Super Search able to sort by number of references would be a nice feature I'd use. A bit like google page rank.


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Re^4: Node trackbacks?
by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Aug 09, 2006 at 10:01 UTC
      Rep measures popularity. Trackbacks measure relevance. I'm not going to link to an existing node because I really like it; I'm going to link to it because it relates to the node I'm creating now.

      The idea of counting references to articles is fairly widespread in the scientific and engineering communities; a big chunk of "reputation" is how many other workers reference your articles. See, for example, Generalized h-index for Disclosing Latent Facts in Citation Networks.

      Frequency of citation is similar to, but not identical with, popularity. As an example, I would guess that no matter how many upvotes a responses in a poll, regardless of how many upvotes they get, are probably not the targets of many links.

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