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Computational Statistics
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Computational Statistics

0943-4062

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/180

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 328 35 44 8
Computer Science 829 15 21 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 75
Documents by Best Scientists*: 87
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 55
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.75
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Computational Statistics?

Computational Statistics tackles a plethora of topics, such as Statistics, Applied mathematics, Algorithm, Estimator and Mathematical optimization. The research on Statistics discussed in the journal draws on the closely related field of Econometrics. Topics in Algorithm were tackled in line with various other fields like Inference, Artificial intelligence and Expectation–maximization algorithm.

The work on Artificial intelligence addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Data mining. Computational Statistics explores research in Estimator and the adjacent study of Mean squared error. The journal focuses on Mathematical optimization research which is adjacent to topics in Smoothing.

It encompasses presentations on Bayesian probability, specifically Markov chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian inference and Prior probability.

  • Statistics (32.32%)
  • Applied mathematics (19.84%)
  • Algorithm (19.04%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Book review: “Bayesian Data Analysis,” Second Edition by A. Gelman, J.B. Carlin, H.S. Stern, and D.B. Rubin Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2004 (1138 citations)
  • Goodness-of-fit indices for partial least squares path modeling (596 citations)
  • Bayesian spatial modeling of genetic population structure (351 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Computational Statistics:

The most cited articles focus on Algorithm, Statistics, Artificial intelligence, Mathematical optimization and Estimator. The journal articles deal with Statistics in conjunction with Applied mathematics and similar fields in Multivariate statistics. While Artificial intelligence is the focus of the journal papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Machine learning and Pattern recognition.

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

  • Statistics
  • Normal distribution
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Computational Statistics focuses largely on the fields of Statistics, Algorithm, Applied mathematics, Estimator and Bayesian probability. Computational Statistics facilitated presentations on Statistics research, particularly Covariate, Statistical hypothesis testing, Multivariate statistics, Sample size determination and Regression analysis. Computational Statistics addresses concerns in the field of Algorithm by exploring it in line with topics in Function (mathematics) which intersect with Expectation–maximization algorithm subjects.

In addition to Applied mathematics research, it aims to explore topics under Monte Carlo method, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Poisson distribution, Distribution (mathematics) and Statistical inference. It mainly concentrates on Estimator but also investigates its connection with concepts in disciplines such as

  • Feature selection, which have a strong connection to Linear model,
  • Nonparametric statistics that connect with fields like Parametric statistics.. Computational Statistics explores research in Quantile and overlapping concepts in Quantile regression to expand the discourse in Bayesian probability.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • What is an optimal value of k in k-fold cross-validation in discrete Bayesian network analysis? (13 citations)
  • Compositional splines for representation of density functions (7 citations)
  • Advanced algorithms for penalized quantile and composite quantile regression (6 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 Computational Statistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Hans A. Kestler (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wolfgang Karl Härdle (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dianne Cook (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Heike Hofmann (10 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 Computational Statistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Humboldt University of Berlin (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Granada (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Seoul National University (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Iowa State University (17 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, 6.47% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 6.92% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.03% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.58% of all publications and 75.47% 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

  • Regularized target encoding outperforms traditional methods in supervised machine learning with high cardinality features

    (2021)
    66 Citations
  • The unit-improved second-degree Lindley distribution: inference and regression modeling

    Emrah Altun;Gauss M. Cordeiro

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Pseudo-document simulation for comparing LDA, GSDMM and GPM topic models on short and sparse text using Twitter data

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation for Bayesian non-factorized normal and Student- t models

    Paul-Christian Bürkner;Jonah Gabry;Aki Vehtari

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Hierarchical inference for genome-wide association studies: a view on methodology with software

    Claude Renaux;Laura Buzdugan;Markus Kalisch;Peter Bühlmann

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • BEST: a decision tree algorithm that handles missing values

    Cédric Beaulac;Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Bayesian inference of nonlinear hysteretic integer-valued GARCH models for disease counts

    Cathy W. S. Chen;Sangyeol Lee;Khemmanant Khamthong

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Density and distribution evaluation for convolution of independent gamma variables

    Chaoran Hu;Vladimir Pozdnyakov;Jun Yan

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Jump Markov chains and rejection-free Metropolis algorithms

    Jeffrey S. Rosenthal;Aki Dote;Aki Dote;Keivan Dabiri;Hirotaka Tamura

    (2021)
    12 Citations

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