Samuel Perry (@profsamperry.bsky.social)

This was clever. I'd wondered how Google Scholar ranks co-authors in my co-author list. Number of shared cites? Number of pubs together? Google doesn't publish that algorithm so this guy used R to work it out. It's a combo of total co-authorships & co-citations. www.r-bloggers.com/2023/10/all-...!

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All The Right Friends: how does Google Scholar rank co-authors? | R-bloggers On a scientist’s Google Scholar page, there is a list of co-authors in the sidebar. I’ve often wondered how Google determines in what order these co-authors appear. The list of co-authors on a primary... https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/10/all-the-right-friends-how-does-google-scholar-rank-co-authors/#:~:text=We%20need%20to%20match%20up,their%20name%20in%20any%20format!&text=First%2C%20let's%20look%20if%20Scholar,authored%20with%20the%20primary%20author.&text=Number%20of%20co%2Dauthored%20papers,shares%20with%20the%20primary%20author.&text=Co%2Dcites%20do%20not%20match,cites%20and%20number%20of%20papers.&text=This%20graph%20shows%20that%20the,can%20see%20this%20more%20clearly.&text=If%20we%20use%20the%20manhattan,get%20something%20approximating%20the%20ranking