Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation

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Highlights：

• An axiomatic approach is followed in journal ranking.

• Two axioms are shown to be incompatible on a restricted domain of citation graphs.

• It is proved that a reasonable method cannot be invariant to aggregating journals.

摘要

•An axiomatic approach is followed in journal ranking.•Two axioms are shown to be incompatible on a restricted domain of citation graphs.•It is proved that a reasonable method cannot be invariant to aggregating journals.

论文关键词：Journal ranking,Citations,Axiomatic approach,Impossibility

论文评审过程：Received 25 April 2019, Revised 2 September 2019, Accepted 5 September 2019, Available online 18 September 2019, Version of Record 18 September 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.100975