A Review on Personalized Academic Paper Recommendation

Abstract

With the advent of the era of big data, it has become extremely easy for scientific users to have to access academic papers, which has enhanced their efficiency and capacity to search or browse papers. However, it also faces some problems such as the explosion of the literature or information overwhelming. Many researchers focus on academic paper recommendation service, hoping to help scientific users to find documents more efficiently and recommend interested or potentially interested papers which could assist academic users doing research. Through literature review, this paper make a comprehensive summary of the research on personalized academic papers recommendation, presenting the state-of-art of academic paper recommendation methodologies, pointing out its pros and cons and indicating primary evaluation metrics and popular datasets. Finnaly, we outlook the research trend of personalized academic paper recommendation as a reference for interested researchers.