AuthorRank : Ranking Improvement for the Web Semantic Web and Web Services Conference Keywords : Social Networking , Page Rank , Semantic Web

As the wealth of data on the World Wide Web grows, and as the structuring of that data improves, more sophisticated applications can be developed to derive meaningful characteristics relating to the content and structure of that data. In particular, ranking the various elements of sets of structured information is of great utility with respect to semantic network analysis. In this paper we report on preliminary results of ranking experiments carried out on the DBLP dataset that contains metadata descriptions of more than 600.000 publications.