Is an Article in a Top Journal a Top Article
以1996年15种顶级金融期刊为样本，用社会科学引文索引平均引用次数排名，并比较不同标准下“顶级文章”与“顶级期刊文章”的误判率，发现仅靠期刊级别判断文章质量误差很大。
This study ranks 15 leading finance journals by the average number of Social Sciences Citation Index cites per articles for articles published in 1996. It also defines a "top article," compared to an "article in a top journal." Using different criteria for top articles, I examine the Type I error (a "top" article is rejected by a particular decision rule, e.g., in top three journals) and the Type II error (a "non-top" article is accepted as a top article) for each journal and combinations of the journals. Due to the high error rates, the results suggest that identifying top articles requires looking beyond the Top 3 journals, as well as examining each article more carefully for its intrinsic quality.