The ranking controls the order in which results are shown.
For author and keyword queries this is the relevance score returned by Xapian (the text-search tool).
The date the record first appeared. Based on the source archive's policy (archive dependent, can be a date given by the author or the date the record was added to the archive).
The last time a change was made to the record (not necessarily the actual paper). Based on the source archive's policy.
The total number of citations identified by Citebase to a paper.
The author impact of a paper is the mean author impact of that paper's named authors.
Author impact is the total number of citations identified by Citebase to papers that the author is named on, divided by the number of papers that same author is named on.
The total number of web requests made for this paper. Web log usage data ("hits") (1) currently cover only from August 1999 to the present and (2) are based only on the UK arXiv.org mirror-site usage (the other 17 international mirror-sites, including the main one in the US are not currently covered).
The author hits of a paper is the mean author hits of that paper's named authors.
Author hits is calculated as the total number of hits to papers that the author is named on, divided by the number of papers that same author is named on.
These are experimental metrics.
The degree to which two articles are related according to the co-occurence of citations.
Citebase Search is Copyright 2005-2008 Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, University of Southampton. Got a comment/question about Citebase? Please email me!
Full-texts, references and metadata are the copyright of the named author(s) and/or the respective publisher(s).