Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery  2022, Vol. 6 Issue (10): 20-34    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2021.1457
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Recommending Research Collaborators Based on Scholar Profiling
Dong Wenhui,Xiong Huixiang,Du Jin,Wang Niuniu()
School of Information Management, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Abstract

[Objective] This paper helps scholars quickly find suitable scientific research partners, and then promote research output and enhance academic exchanges. [Methods] First, we explored the four dimensional characteristics of scholars’ natural attributes, interest attributes, ability attributes and social attributes with the LDA topic model, PageRank algorithm and social network analysis. Then, we constructed scholars’ profiles, and recommended collaborators based on their preferences. [Results] We examined the proposed method with 14 007 articles, 13 292 citations and 11 869 authors in the field of Library and Information Science from the CNKI and CSSCI databases. A total of 20 potential collaborators with similar and complementary research interests were recommended to the target scholars. [Limitations] More research is needed to address the cold start issue, as well as the contribution of authors in different signing orders of the papers. The data of the empirical study also needs to be expanded. [Conclusions] The proposed model can effectively recommend potential research collaborators for the target scholars, which has good application value.

Received: 27 December 2021      Published: 16 November 2022
 ZTFLH: G203
Fund:National Social Science Fund of China(19ZDA345)
Corresponding Authors: Wang Niuniu,ORCID：0000-0003-1513-3503      E-mail: w0815@mails.ccnu.edu.cn
 Scholar Recommendation Framework Based on Scholar Portrait Academic Age Classification of Scholars Educational Background or Professional Title Classification of Scholars Organization Classification Scholar Portrait Index System Scaling Method of Judgment Matrix Summary of Literature Information Information of Scholars Academic Age Similarity Score Reciprocal of Geographical Distance Matrix of Provinces Chart of Subject Number Consistency Similarity Results of Scholars’ Interests Complementarity Results of Scholars’ Interests Calculation Results of $h T$ Authority Scores of Academic Institutions Calculation Results of PageRank Value Cited by Scholars Scholar Cooperation Network Institutional Cooperation Network Calculation Results of Scholar Centrality Calculation Results of Institution Centrality Weight Results of Four Dimensions of Experts Recommended Results of Scientific Research Collaborators with Similar Interests Recommended Results of Scientific Research Collaborators with Complementary Interests