To the Editor: I read with interest the article in the Journal on ranking medical journals and the fallacies to be found therein.1

I have a simpler method. I subscribe to two classes of journals: those specialising in psychiatry, and more general journals. The psychiatry journals I keep entire. However, as my house is of modest size I cannot do that with the general journals, so I tear out and file the articles that I find interesting and informative. You will be interested to know that in the past month I have filed away one article from the Lancet, one from the New England Journal of Medicine and three from the Medical Journal of Australia. What better measure of merit could there be?