Exploring Author, Article, and Venue Feature Sets for Rising Star Prediction in Academic Network

• Published in: Journal of scholarly publishing Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 445 - 473
• Main Authors: Urooj, Amber, Khan, Hikmat Ullah, Iqbal, Saqib, Alghobiri, Mohammed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press 01.07.2023
• ISSN: 1198-9742; 1710-1166
• DOI: 10.3138/jsp-2022-0025

Rising stars are the researchers who are relatively new to the research area and have published fewer research articles, but their research work is of such standard that they have the potential to be top researchers in near future. Research work on the evaluation of researchers and prediction of rising stars is getting attention because it can be useful for selecting capable candidates for the jobs, hiring young faculty members for institutes, and seeking reviewers for journals and conferences and members for different committees. In this research study, the authors address the research problem of finding rising stars and propose novel features in diverse feature sets of three categories: article, author, and venue. The real-world data set has been extracted, preprocessed, and used from the Web of Science for empirical analysis. Several diverse supervised machine learning, ensemble learning algorithms, and deep learning are applied to the data set. The results, using classifiers, are compared based on standard performance evaluation measures to reveal the significance of the proposed as well as existing features. It also shows that the novel features play a significant role in finding rising stars. The ensemble-based machine learning classifier generalized linear model outperforms all other classifiers and gives the highest accuracy and F-measure compared to other models and the existing studies in the relevant literature.