Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation

L\'aszl\'o Csat\'o

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Abstract: Journal ranking is becoming more important in assessing the quality of academic research. Several indices have been suggested for this purpose, typically on the basis of a citation graph between the journals. We follow an axiomatic approach and find an impossibility theorem: any self-consistent ranking method, which satisfies a natural monotonicity property, should depend on the level of aggregation. Our result presents a trade-off between two axiomatic properties and reveals a dilemma of aggregation.

Date: 2019-04, Revised 2019-09
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Published in Journal of Informetrics, 13(4): 100975, 2019

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