Unfortunately I don't know any public domain versions of HITS.

Also, I don't know the copyright status of the SALSA method, but here is a comparison of HITS, PageRank and SALSA: Authority Rankings from HITS, PageRank, and SALSA: Existence, Uniqueness, and effect of Initializations. Another comparison is Najork's: Comparing the Effectiveness of HITS and SALSA.

This may be an impertinent suggestion, but have you tried a simple eigenvector analysis? A very simple example is Hilbert Wilf's ranking of football teams in his short paper Searching the web with eigenvectors. Anyhow, I like this paper.

Later edit: In case someone wonder, I am the Twitter hakankj that Mark linked to in his question.

Unfortunately I don't know any public domain versions of HITS.

Also, I don't know the copyright status of the SALSA method, but here is a comparison of HITS, PageRank and SALSA: Authority Rankings from HITS, PageRank, and SALSA: Existence, Uniqueness, and effect of Initializations. Another comparison is Najork's: Comparing the Effectiveness of HITS and SALSA.

This may be an impertinent suggestion, but have you tried a simple eigenvector analysis? A very simple example is Hilbert Wilf's ranking of football teams in his short paper Searching the web with eigenvectors. Anyhow, I like this paper.