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Researchers’ high quality homepages are important resources in academic search because they provide comprehensive and up-to-date information about researchers. Meanwhile, low quality homepages widely exist. A case study shows that 57.8% of all homepages retrieved among top 10 results from Google are low quality and 95% top researchers own out-of-date homepages. Besides, some academic portals generate dynamic homepages introducing researchers. These homepages are not maintained by researchers and may contain incorrect information. The quality of discovered homepages can not be ensured by existing work, which decreases the efficiency of academic search. It is difficult to define a high quality homepage from a quantitative perspective. Instead, on the basis of analyzing labeled high quality homepages, we propose “informative researcher’s homepage”, at least consisting of …