ArnetMiner is a free online service used to index, search, and mine big scientific data.
Overview
ArnetMiner is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications. This allows it to provide services such as expert finding, geographic search, trend analysis, reviewer recommendation, association search, course search, academic performance evaluation, and topic modeling. ArnetMiner was created as a research project in social influence analysis, social network ranking, and social network extraction. A number of peer-reviewed papers have been published arising from the development of the system. It has been in operation for more than three years, and has indexed 130,000,000 researchers and more than 200 million publications. The research was funded by the Chinese National High-tech R&D Program and the National Science Foundation of China. ArnetMiner is commonly used in academia to identify relationships between and draw statistical correlations about research and researchers. It has attracted more than 10 million independent IP accesses from 220 countries and regions. The product has been used in Elsevier's SciVerse platform, and academic conferences such as SIGKDD, ICDM, PKDD, WSDM.
Operation
ArnetMiner automatically extracts the researcher profile from the web. It collects and identifies the relevant pages, then uses a unified approach to extract data from the identified documents. It also extracts publications from online digital libraries using heuristic rules. It integrates the extracted researchers’ profiles and the extracted publications. It employs the researcher name as the identifier. A probabilistic framework has been proposed to deal with the name ambiguity problem in the integration. The integrated data is stored into a researcher network knowledge base. The principal other product in the area are Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus, and the open source project CiteSeer.
History
It was initiated and created by professor from Tsinghua University, China. It was first launched in March 2006. The following provide a list of updates in the past years:
March 2006, Version 0.1, Functions include researcher profiling, expert search, conference search, and publication search. The system was developed in Perl;
August 2006, Version 1.0, The system was re-implemented in Java;
July 2007, Version 2.0, New functions include researcher interest mining, association search, survey paper finding ;
ArnetMiner published several datasets for academic research purpose, including Open Academic Graph, DBLP+citation, Name Disambiguation, Social Tie Analysis. For more available datasets and source codes for research, please refer to.
