It is common for an author or an institution to achieve higher impact by being prolific. Saliency ranks are therefore often conflating productivity and the impact of individual publications. While aggregate rank of impact is useful, it is also interesting to take into consideration productivity and ask; \u201cWhat volume of work was done to achieve a given rank?\u201d, and \u00a0\u201cwhat is the average per-article impact?\u201d.\u00a0 To show this, we show the publication normalized saliency by using a feature in MAG called paper families <\/em>to properly count the number of articles that should be regarded as a single publication.\u00a0 Paper families are a grouping of papers that we have found to be identical, or nearly identical, which have been published in different venues.\u00a0 Take for instance a paper an author has written that has been published in a pre-print repository, a conference and a journal.\u00a0 We record each of these publications as separate entity\u2019s in the graph, but these publications represent the same work and are thus grouped into a paper family in MAG.\u00a0 Using this value for an entity\u2019s publication count, we normalize the saliency and determine an entity\u2019s productivity.<\/p>\n Author impact chart for the University of Washington<\/p><\/div>\n The chart above shows the most impactful authors at the University of Washington (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 As you can see, Christopher J. Murry (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> \u00a0has the highest saliency rank.\u00a0 However, the author with the second highest saliency rank, Mohsen Naghavi (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> has a higher productivity (publication normalized rank), 2th<\/sup> overall.\u00a0 Mohammad H. Forouzanfar (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, with only a few publications relative to peers, has really made an impact with the work they have published, ranked 1st<\/sup> among the top 20 at this institution.<\/p>\n By default, the charts display overall rankings.\u00a0 If you would like to dig further, we also provide contextual year and topic filters which allow you to drill down and build a custom view.\u00a0 You may also be curious what publications these authors have written to achieve these rankings.\u00a0 If you would like to see them, simply click on the authors name and you will be taken to a search results page to view them.<\/p>\n Presenting real-time analytics has been a goal of our team this year. This feature is another great demonstration of how the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> paired with the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Exploration Service (MAKES) can be used to gather bibliometric data and tell the story behind research in real-time<\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"Author](\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/07\/impact-chart-1024x506.png\")