Scienstein : A Research Paper Recommender System
Béla Gipp, Joeran Beel, Christian Hentschel · 2009
This paper introduces Scienstein, the first hybrid research paper recommender system and a powerful alternative to currently used academic search engines. Scienstein improves the approach of the usually used keyword-based search by combining it with citation analysis, author analysis, source analysis, implicit ratings, explicit ratings and in addition, innovative and yet unused methods like the ‘Distance Similarity Index’ (DSI) and the ‘In-text Impact Factor’ (ItIF). Instead