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Yes, but the next line mentioned PageRank, which is designed to deal with those types of issues. Lots of inward links doesn't mean much unless the people (or papers, or whatever, depending on the semantics of the graph) linking to you are themselves highly ranked.
Yep, a data-driven process could be great, but if what actually gets through the inertia is the simple version, this is an avenue for backfire.