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Annals of Statistics
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Annals of Statistics

0090-5364

Published by: Institute of Mathematical Statistics

https://imstat.org/journals-and-publications/annals-of-statistics/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 8 96 178 38

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 156
Documents by Best Scientists*: 229
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 18
SCIMAGO H-index: 202
SCIMAGO SJR: 4.769
Impact Factor: 3.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Annals of Statistics?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Statistics, Applied mathematics, Estimator, Combinatorics and Mathematical optimization. Annals of Statistics connects research in Statistics with the related topic of Econometrics. In addition to Applied mathematics research, the journal aims to explore topics under Statistical hypothesis testing, Density estimation, Linear model, Rate of convergence and Calculus.

Topics in Estimator were tackled in line with various other fields like Mean squared error, Estimation theory and Minimax. Annals of Statistics holds forums on Combinatorics that merges themes from other disciplines such as Order (ring theory), Random variable, Distribution (mathematics), Distribution function and Function (mathematics). It focuses on Regression analysis as well as the interrelated topic of Linear regression.

  • Statistics (37.91%)
  • Applied mathematics (33.45%)
  • Estimator (27.43%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Estimating the Dimension of a Model (33169 citations)
  • Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife (13132 citations)
  • Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine. (10609 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Annals of Statistics:

The most cited papers facilitate discussions on Statistics, Applied mathematics, Estimator, Combinatorics and Mathematical optimization. The Statistics study tackled in the most cited publications is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Econometrics. The most cited papers explore issues in Estimator which can be linked to other research areas like Estimation theory and Minimax.

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

  • Statistics
  • Normal distribution
  • Mathematical analysis

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in Annals of Statistics mainly cover the fields of Applied mathematics, Estimator, Minimax, Algorithm and Nonparametric statistics. Topics in Applied mathematics explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Covariance, Regression analysis, Nonparametric regression, Central limit theorem and Asymptotic distribution. Annals of Statistics focuses on Estimator research as part of the broader topic of Statistics.

The study on Statistics presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Selection (genetic algorithm). In Annals of Statistics, Exponential family, Stochastic block model, Rank (linear algebra), Rate of convergence and Sequence are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Algorithm research. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Nonparametric statistics, it also covered topics in Mixture model, Consistent estimator and Hazard (logic).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Predictive inference with the jackknife (53 citations)
  • Linearized two-layers neural networks in high dimension (26 citations)
  • Classification accuracy as a proxy for two-sample testing (23 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 Annals of Statistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Peter Hall (66 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lawrence D. Brown (63 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • T. Tony Cai (52 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Jianqing Fan (49 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Holger Dette (46 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 Annals of Statistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, Berkeley (39 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Princeton University (37 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (33 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Minnesota (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous 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, 24.27% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 35.90% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.82% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.95% of all publications and 33.33% 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

  • Statistical inference in two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization using robust adjusted profile score

    Qingyuan Zhao;Jingshu Wang;Gibran Hemani;Jack Bowden

    (2020)
    960 Citations
  • ENTRYWISE EIGENVECTOR ANALYSIS OF RANDOM MATRICES WITH LOW EXPECTED RANK.

    Emmanuel Abbe;Jianqing Fan;Kaizheng Wang;Yiqiao Zhong

    (2020)
    229 Citations
  • Predictive inference with the jackknife

    Rina Foygel Barber;Emmanuel J. Candès;Aaditya Ramdas;Ryan J. Tibshirani

    (2021)
    223 Citations
  • Conformal prediction beyond exchangeability

    Unknown

    (2022)
    217 Citations
  • Analytical nonlinear shrinkage of large-dimensional covariance matrices

    Olivier Ledoit;Michael Wolf

    (2020)
    191 Citations
  • Learning models with uniform performance via distributionally robust optimization

    John C. Duchi;Hongseok Namkoong

    (2021)
    170 Citations
  • Linearized two-layers neural networks in high dimension

    Behrooz Ghorbani;Song Mei;Theodor Misiakiewicz;Andrea Montanari

    (2021)
    155 Citations
  • Sparse high-dimensional regression: Exact scalable algorithms and phase transitions

    Dimitris Bertsimas;Bart Van Parys

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Robust inference with knockoffs

    Rina Foygel Barber;Emmanuel J. Candès;Richard J. Samworth

    (2020)
    115 Citations
  • Distribution and quantile functions, ranks and signs in dimension d: A measure transportation approach

    Marc Hallin;Eustasio del Barrio;Juan Cuesta-Albertos;Carlos Matrán

    (2021)
    111 Citations

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