An automated query interface for searching academic citation databases is provided. The system of the present invention allows a user to query not just either the relative performance metrics and rankings of academic publications or the similarity of academic publications, but to query for the relative ranking of aggregations such as researchers, institutions and journals and relative to a set of similar “peers” that (usually) have also been obtained by the system itself via an automated similarity rating engine. The system intentionally deemphasizes or suppresses results for dissimilar researchers, institutions or journals, and seeks to present similar researchers, institutions, and journals together and relative to one another.
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