Finding rising stars is a challenging and interesting task which is being investigated recently in many organizations and Academic networks. This paper addresses the problem of finding rising stars in Co-author networks. Predicting future rising stars is to find talented researchers in Co-author Networks. An effort for finding rising stars named PubRank is proposed, which considers the mutual influence and static ranking of conferences or journals. In this work, modification of PubRank is proposed by considering attributes like mutual influence based on authors’ contribution, co-authors’ citations, the order of appearance and publication venues. This method can be effectively used for mining the Co-author networks to search for rising stars in the research communities and organizations.