The lending of money is traditionally handled by banking institutions. The internet has enabled new forms of credit businesses, challenging the classical bank loan. Peer-to-peer lending markets bring together noninstitutional borrowers and lenders. In a typical lending market, borrowers have to...

Despite the increasing popularity of journal rankings to evaluate the quality of research contributions, the individual rankings for journals that ranked below the top tier of publications usually feature only modest agreement. Attempts to merge rankings into meta-rankings suffer from some...