Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of 'experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … applications. The method is illustrated for ranking economic journals. …

We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … each ranking score. Finally, we aggregate all rankings using a double-weighting algorithm which corrects for incomplete … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …

of a journal's performance. Most other rankings that are commonly applied neglect this fact. The Elo ranking approach can … period from 1999 to 2015. We show that the Elo approach produces a similar but not identical ranking compared to other …

-based measures. We analyze data from the Scopus database as well as from the prestigious German-based Handelsblatt ranking for 100 …

rankings can be biased due to the employed ranking methodology. In order to select key in-dicators describing and assessing … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data. -- RePEc ; ranking aggregation ; principal components analysis ; economics …