NDLI: Data-driven journal meta-ranking in business and management

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ennas, Gianfranco Biggio, Battista Di Guardo, Maria Chiara
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Ranking journals is a longstanding problem and can be addressed quantitatively, qualitatively or using a combination of both approaches. In the last decades, the Impact Factor (i.e., the most known quantitative approach) has been widely questioned, and other indices have thus been developed and become popular. Previous studies have reported strengths and weaknesses of each index, and devised meta-indices to rank journals in a certain field of study. However, the proposed meta-indices exhibit some intrinsic limitations: (1) the indices to be combined are not always chosen according to well-grounded principles; (2) combination methods are usually unweighted; and (3) some of the proposed meta-indices are parametric, which requires assuming a specific underlying data distribution. We propose a data-driven methodology that linearly combines an arbitrary number of indices to produce an aggregated ranking, using different techniques from statistics and machine learning to estimate the combining weights. We additionally consider correlations between indices and meta-indices, to quantitatively evaluate their differences. Finally, we empirically show that the considered meta-indices are also robust to significant perturbations of the values of the combined indices.
Starting Page	1911
Ending Page	1929
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume Number	105
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15882861
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-09-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Journal quality evaluation Combining journal ranking indices Meta-indices Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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