Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities

Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of interest. These rankings are invariably computed using estimates rather than the true values of such features. As a result, there may be considerable uncertainty concerning the经济学家们高度关注依据某一目标特征的取值，对学术机构、期刊及学者进行排名的活动。此类排名无一例外均通过估算值而非该特征的真实数值计算得到。由此，关于……可能存在相当程度的不确定性。