Is An Article In A Top Journal A Top Article?

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