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American Statistician
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American Statistician

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Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utas20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 307 27 34 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 65
Documents by Best Scientists*: 73
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 103
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.775
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at The American Statistician?

The main points discussed in the journal deals with Statistics, Econometrics, Statistician, Applied mathematics and Mathematics education. Confidence interval, Regression analysis, Estimator, Sample size determination and Statistical hypothesis testing are all topics related to Statistics research discussed.

  • Statistics (35.27%)
  • Econometrics (14.88%)
  • Statistician (7.82%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Constructing a Control Group Using Multivariate Matched Sampling Methods That Incorporate the Propensity Score (4197 citations)
  • Rank Transformations as a Bridge between Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics (3099 citations)
  • Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm (2984 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at The American Statistician:

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Statistics, Econometrics, Regression analysis, Linear regression and Applied mathematics. Statistical hypothesis testing, Confidence interval, Linear model, Regression and Regression diagnostic are some of the study areas of Statistics discussed in the published articles. The journal publications hold forums on Econometrics that merge themes from other disciplines such as Sample size determination, Inference, Proper linear model, Estimator and Bayesian probability.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Law
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Statistics, Bayesian probability, Statistical hypothesis testing, Econometrics and Bayes factor. The journal focuses on Statistics as well as the interrelated topic of Sign (mathematics). It explores research in Bayesian probability and the adjacent study of Sample size determination.

The journal focuses on Posterior probability but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as p-value and Null hypothesis. The research on Null hypothesis discussed in The American Statistician draws on the closely related field of Frequentist inference. The American Statistician facilitates the exploration of Estimator in relation to the field of Intuition.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Making Recursive Bayesian Inference Accessible (12 citations)
  • Harmonizing Optimized Designs With Classic Randomization in Experiments (11 citations)
  • Visually Communicating and Teaching Intuition for Influence Functions (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in The American Statistician (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Joseph M. Hilbe (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christine M. Anderson-Cook (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ernest Rubin (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carolyn Pillers Dobler (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harry O. Posten (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in The American Statistician (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Iowa State University (52 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Minnesota (40 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Iowa (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Cornell University (35 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.67% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.44% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.07% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.07% of all publications and 53.42% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Demystifying Statistical Learning Based on Efficient Influence Functions

    (2021)
    91 Citations
  • Big Data? Statistical Process Control Can Help!

    Peihua Qiu

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • Applications of the Fractional-Random-Weight Bootstrap

    Li Xu;Chris Gotwalt;Yili Hong;Caleb B. King

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Reconnecting p-Value and Posterior Probability Under One- and Two-Sided Tests

    Haolun Shi;Guosheng Yin

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Iterative Multiple Imputation: A Framework to Determine the Number of Imputed Datasets

    Vahid Nassiri;Geert Molenberghs;Geert Verbeke;João Barbosa-Breda

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • On Causal Inferences for Personalized Medicine: How Hidden Causal Assumptions Led to Erroneous Causal Claims About the D-Value

    Sander Greenland;Michael P. Fay;Erica H. Brittain;Joanna H. Shih

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • A Proposal for Informative Default Priors Scaled by the Standard Error of Estimates

    Erik van Zwet;Andrew Gelman

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Nonparametric Estimation of the Conditional Distribution at Regression Boundary Points

    Srinjoy Das;Dimitris N. Politis

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Improved Approximation and Visualization of the Correlation Matrix

    (2023)
    11 Citations
  • Assumption Lean Regression

    Richard Berk;Andreas Buja;Lawrence Brown;Edward George

    (2021)
    10 Citations

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