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The assignment of article publication codes is based on human judgment. A news story might be perceived as a substantive article, and a significant letter might not be. Furthermore, no effort is made to differentiate clinical versus laboratory studies or, for that matter, practice-based versus research-based articles. All these potential variables provide grist for the critical mill of citation aficionados