social networks

Much of scholarly communication involves exchange of preprints: drafts of articles that have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in an academic journal. In the last 30 years, preprints have been distributed electronically, especially on preprint databases such as arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv and SocArXiv.

Learning rankings from paired comparisons is a task widely applied in sports modelling, social network analysis, bibliometrics and recommender systems. Common approaches include generalized linear models such as the Bradley—Terry model, or eigenvector-based methods such as the PageRank algorithm.