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ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases

Summary: ObjectRank uses authority-based ranking for keyword search on labeled graphs, routing from keyword-bearing objects through links to rank results. It precomputes per-keyword ObjectRanks and combines them at runtime with adjustable weights. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9165
Venue
VLDB
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00027577867
Overall Rank
320 | 97.78%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
301 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028370644
336 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027020919
574 From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph" 2014 VLDB 0.00019883211
768 PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks 2011 VLDB 0.00016919065
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013642866
1,258 Ordering the Attributes of Query Results 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013013676
1,564 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011350495
1,616 Relational link-based ranking 2004 VLDB 0.00011128652
2,098 Efficient Ad-hoc Search for Personalized PageRank 2013 SIGMOD 9.5480012e-05
2,173 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.3676609e-05
2,183 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3439219e-05
2,210 BEAR: Block Elimination Approach for Random Walk with Restart on Large Graphs 2015 SIGMOD 9.2856573e-05
2,599 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4702307e-05
2,780 Incremental and Accuracy-Aware Personalized PageRank through Scheduled Approximation 2013 VLDB 8.1317773e-05
3,110 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.5475982e-05
3,256 Multidimensional Content eXploration 2008 VLDB 7.3158557e-05
3,872 Distributed Algorithms on Exact Personalized PageRank 2017 SIGMOD 6.6785582e-05
4,038 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5082212e-05
4,063 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.4825871e-05
4,414 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.2056993e-05
4,525 Retrieving Top-k Prestige-Based Relevant Spatial Web Objects 2010 VLDB 6.1116751e-05
4,592 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0613645e-05
4,637 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.0303293e-05
4,707 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 5.9810753e-05
5,032 Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2013 VLDB 5.748807e-05
5,501 Page Quality: In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking 2005 SIGMOD 5.4742188e-05
5,672 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3784128e-05
5,757 Mining Significant Semantic Locations From GPS Data 2010 VLDB 5.3396286e-05
5,937 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.2650964e-05
5,946 Reverse Top-k Search using Random Walk with Restart 2014 VLDB 5.2616887e-05
5,961 Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs 2016 SIGMOD 5.2549663e-05
6,050 Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 5.2360729e-05
6,073 Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance 2007 CIDR 5.2253416e-05
6,730 A Hierarchical Contraction Scheme for Querying Big Graphs 2022 SIGMOD 4.9479867e-05
6,792 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 4.9249098e-05
7,240 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 4.792172e-05
7,256 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 4.7869419e-05
7,517 ObjectRank: A System for Authority-based Search on Databases 2006 SIGMOD 4.7180617e-05
7,615 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6946145e-05
7,954 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 4.613363e-05
8,750 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 4.456315e-05
9,183 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 4.3799925e-05
9,328 Estimating Single-Node PageRank in O~(min{d_t, sqrt(m)}) Time 2023 VLDB 4.3556432e-05
11,892 Looking at Everything in Context 2015 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
12,266 Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,317 Search Your Memory ! - An Associative Memory Based Desktop Search System 2009 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,404 C-DEM: A Multi-Modal Query System for Drosophila Embryo Databases 2008 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
13,575 DBPubs: Multidimensional Exploration of Database Publications 2008 VLDB -
13,602 Information Discovery in Loosely Integrated Data 2007 SIGMOD -
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
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