network analysis

Bias and Fairness in Effectiveness Evaluation by Means of Network Analysis and Mixture Models

Information retrieval effectiveness evaluation is often carried out by means of test collections. Many works investigated possible sources of bias in such an approach. We propose a systematic approach to identify bias and its causes, and to remove …

HITS Hits Readersourcing: Validating Peer Review Alternatives Using Network Analysis

Peer review is a well known mechanism exploited within the scholarly publishing process to ensure the quality of scientific literature. Such a mechanism, despite being well established and reasonable, is not free from problems, and alternative …