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. …

A ranking method assigns to every weighted directed graph a (weak) orderingof the nodes. In this paper we axiomatize … the ranking method that ranksthe nodes according to their outflow using four independent axioms. This outflowranking … method generalizes the ranking by outdegree for directed graphs.Furthermore, we compare our axioms with other axioms …

Sum of Ranking Differences is an innovative statistical method that ranks competing solutions based on a reference …