Health-Related Journals
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“Who Is the ‘Journal Grand Master’? A New Ranking Based on the Elo Rating System” 
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6259. In this paper we transfer the Elo rating system, which is widely accepted in chess, sports and other disciplines, to rank scientific journals. The advantage of the Elo system is the explicit consideration of the factor time or the history of a journal’s performance. Most other rankings that are commonly applied neglect this fact. The Elo ranking approach can easily be applied to any metric, published on a regular basis, to rank journals. We illustrate the approach using the SNIP indicator based on citation data from Scopus. Our balanced panel consists of 7,748 journals from many scientific fields for the period from 1999 to 2015.
Not-for-Profit Top 10 Academic Journal Quality/Ranking Lists (ScholarsIndex). It is common among academic professionals to check listing/ranking of academic journals in recognized journal ranking/quality lists before submitting their articles to an academic journal. Professional research evaluation committees also frequently use such quality journal lists. Although, many scholars consider indexing/abstracting databases like SSCI, SCI, Scopus, Inspec, MEDLINE etc. but this article will focus on the academic journal quality/ranking lists developed by various countries/institutions. I will only provide journal quality lists/rankings developed by not-for-profit organizations because products developed by for-profit companies always reflect some degree of bias. Therefore, I will exclude the lists/rankings like Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Journal Ranking, Cabell’s Journals list, SCImago journal ranking (although it is free but is based on for-profit database Scopus) etc.
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- Publication Outlets for Healthcare Financial Research: A Study of Journal Quality Perceptions. Publications in high quality journals often serve to indicate research productivity. However, many top-rated journals infrequently publish cross-disciplinary topics such as healthcare financial management (HFM). So HFM researchers find it challenging to demonstrate the quality of their work. Journals open to publishing HFM articles are distributed across multiple disciplines. Each field has its own journal rankings typically focused on their primary subject area, rather than subdisciplines. Starting with prior literature, we form a broad-based journal list and solicit preliminary input from editors, associated editors, reviewers, and authors. We then solicit confirmatory ranking input from independent researchers in a holdout sample.