Every article gets one vote but they are weighted vote based on impact all articles are not equal. Finding an appropriate balance between the criteria of relevance and popularity.
Goal of information retrieval is to find documents that are relevant to a user’s query. How is relevance defined? Basically Statistical Language Model have focused on content dependent models of relevance. Content dependent models has limitation since all documents are not created equal in the perspective of Credibility, Trust, and Authority. Can the link structure of the web be used to help infer the relevance of pages? → Citation analysis model (PageRank)
Citation analysis models
Citation analysis model Notion