Who is the ‘Journal Grand Master’? A new ranking based on the Elo rating system

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Highlights：

• We introduce the Elo rating system for ranking journals.

• The Elo rating system takes the factor time or the history of a journal's ranking performance into account.

• The approach can be applied to any metric.

• We illustrate the new ranking approach using the SNIP indicator for more than 20 000 journals for the period from 1999 to 2015.

摘要

•We introduce the Elo rating system for ranking journals.•The Elo rating system takes the factor time or the history of a journal's ranking performance into account.•The approach can be applied to any metric.•We illustrate the new ranking approach using the SNIP indicator for more than 20 000 journals for the period from 1999 to 2015.

论文关键词：Elo rating system,Journal rankings,SNIP indicator

论文评审过程：Received 9 December 2016, Revised 5 May 2017, Accepted 12 May 2017, Available online 30 June 2017, Version of Record 30 June 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.05.004