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British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 477 5 10 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 30
Documents by Best Scientists*: 31
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 66
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.159
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology?

The objective of British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology is to combine knowledge in the areas of Statistics, Econometrics, Applied mathematics, Sample size determination and Algorithm. Research on Statistics presented in it focuses, in particular, on Type I and type II errors, Estimator, Statistical hypothesis testing, Test (assessment) and Statistic. It explores issues in Econometrics which can be linked to other research areas like Latent variable model, Latent class model, Latent variable, Covariance and Item response theory.

It addresses concerns in Applied mathematics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Covariance matrix and Mathematical optimization.

  • Statistics (59.76%)
  • Econometrics (29.50%)
  • Applied mathematics (10.21%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Statistical mediation analysis with a multicategorical independent variable. (1711 citations)
  • Asymptotically distribution‐free methods for the analysis of covariance structures (1472 citations)
  • A comparison of some methodologies for the factor analysis of non‐normal Likert variables (1250 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology:

The journal articles focus largely on the fields of Statistics, Econometrics, Applied mathematics, Algorithm and Covariance. In the Statistics research discussed in the published papers, Estimator, Sample size determination, Type I and type II errors, Statistical hypothesis testing and Statistic are all tackled. In addition to Econometrics research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Test (assessment), Multivariate analysis, Standard error, Rasch model and Multivariate statistics.

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

  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Normal distribution

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Statistics, Item response theory, Latent variable, Algorithm and Econometrics. Statistics research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Measure (mathematics) and Random effects model. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology facilitates discussions on Item response theory that incorporate concepts from other fields like Cognitive psychology, Rating scale, Binary number, Response bias and Anchoring.

Issues in Latent variable were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Goodness of fit, Estimation theory and Model selection. Topics in Algorithm were tackled in line with various other fields like Gibbs sampling, Monte Carlo method, Conditional probability distribution and Expectation–maximization algorithm. The work on Econometrics tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Structural equation modeling, Data structure, Piecewise and Nonlinear system.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A close-up comparison of the misclassification error distance and the adjusted Rand index for external clustering evaluation (4 citations)
  • An exploratory analysis of the latent structure of process data via action sequence autoencoders (4 citations)
  • Can we disregard the whole model? Omnibus non-inferiority testing for R2 in multi-variable linear regression and in ANOVA (4 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 British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Rand R. Wilcox (54 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Sik-Yum Lee (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • H. J. Keselman (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tenko Raykov (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roderick P. McDonald (17 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 British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Southern California (48 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong (38 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Amsterdam (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.78% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.56% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.22% of all publications and 44.44% 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

  • An exploratory analysis of the latent structure of process data via action sequence autoencoders

    Xueying Tang;Zhi Wang;Jingchen Liu;Zhiliang Ying

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Which method delivers greater signal-to-noise ratio: Structural equation modelling or regression analysis with weighted composites?

    (2022)
    19 Citations
  • An overview of applied robust methods.

    Ke-Hai Yuan;Ke-Hai Yuan;Brenna Gomer

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Two-way ANOVA: Inferences about interactions based on robust measures of effect size.

    Rand R. Wilcox

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Combining diversity and dispersion criteria for anticlustering: A bicriterion approach

    Michael J. Brusco;J. Dennis Cradit;Douglas Steinley

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • A latent topic model with Markov transition for process data

    Haochen Xu;Guanhua Fang;Zhiliang Ying

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Bayesian Gaussian distributional regression models for more efficient norm estimation

    Lieke Voncken;Lieke Voncken;Thomas Kneib;Casper J. Albers;Nikolaus Umlauf

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Deterministic blockmodelling of signed and two-mode networks: A tutorial with software and psychological examples.

    Michael Brusco;Patrick Doreian;Patrick Doreian;Douglas Steinley

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Penalized optimal scaling for ordinal variables with an application to international classification of functioning core sets.

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Replies to comments on "Which method delivers greater signal‐to‐noise ratio: Structural equation modelling or regression analysis with weighted composites?" by Yuan and Fang (2023)

    (2023)
    2 Citations

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