
PageRank Explained: Theory, Algorithm, and Some Experiments
March 12, 2020 | 9 min readHow does Google's PageRank work? Its theory and algorithm are explained, followed by numerical experiments.
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How does Google's PageRank work? Its theory and algorithm are explained, followed by numerical experiments.

Citation counts shouldn't be the only measurement of the impact of academic papers. I applied Google's PageRank to evaluating academic papers's importance.