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Electronic Journal of Statistics
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Electronic Journal of Statistics

1935-7524

Published by: Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 131 75 107 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 100
Documents by Best Scientists*: 130
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 63
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.321
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Electronic Journal of Statistics?

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Applied mathematics, Estimator, Statistics, Algorithm and Mathematical optimization. In the journal, Nonparametric statistics, Prior probability, Linear model, Function (mathematics) and Rate of convergence are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Applied mathematics research. The featured Prior probability study falls within the wider topic of Bayesian probability.

It focuses on Estimator but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Model selection, Minimax, Consistency (statistics) and Combinatorics. Statistics study tackled is connected to the field of Econometrics. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Algorithm, it also covered topics in Inference and Artificial intelligence.

  • Applied mathematics (38.08%)
  • Estimator (35.82%)
  • Statistics (19.11%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Sparse permutation invariant covariance estimation (810 citations)
  • High-dimensional covariance estimation by minimizing ℓ1-penalized log-determinant divergence (623 citations)
  • On the conditions used to prove oracle results for the Lasso (589 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Electronic Journal of Statistics:

The journal publications cover a variety of subjects, including Applied mathematics, Estimator, Algorithm, Statistics and Mathematical optimization. The studies on Applied mathematics discussed at the published papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Prior probability, Bayesian probability, Bayesian inference, Linear regression and Lasso (statistics). The journal papers hold forums on Estimator that merge themes from other disciplines such as Nonparametric statistics, Minimax and Rate of convergence.

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:

Electronic Journal of Statistics facilitates discussions on Applied mathematics, Estimator, Algorithm, Rate of convergence and Consistency (statistics). In addition to Applied mathematics research, the journal aims to explore topics under Convergence (routing), Covariance, Minimax, Asymptotic distribution and Function (mathematics). Research in the field of Statistics was used to conduct the presented Estimator study.

The studies on Algorithm discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Inference, Bayes factor, Model selection, Multivariate statistics and Series (mathematics). The Model selection works featured in Electronic Journal of Statistics incorporate elements from Adaptive estimator, Linear regression and Curse of dimensionality. The presented Rate of convergence research focuses mostly on Bounded function and, on occasion, topics in Upper and lower bounds.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Multivariate Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on Wasserstein Distance (6 citations)
  • Continuous-discrete smoothing of diffusions (5 citations)
  • Inference on the change point under a high dimensional sparse mean shift (5 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 Electronic Journal of Statistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Subhashis Ghosal (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • James Stephen Marron (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ingrid Van Keilegom (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Holger Dette (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Aad van der Vaart (10 papers) published 1 paper 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 Electronic Journal of Statistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • North Carolina State University (22 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
  • Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Département de Mathématiques (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (14 papers) published 1 paper 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, 11.29% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 10.91% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.91% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.27% of all publications and 50.91% 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

  • Projective inference in high-dimensional problems: Prediction and feature selection

    Juho Piironen;Markus Paasiniemi;Aki Vehtari

    (2020)
    89 Citations
  • Univariate Mean Change Point Detection: Penalization, CUSUM and Optimality.

    Daren Wang;Yi Yu;Alessandro Rinaldo

    (2020)
    69 Citations
  • Multivariate Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on Wasserstein Distance

    Marc Hallin;Gilles Mordant;Johan Segers

    (2021)
    45 Citations
  • Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo for intractable target distributions

    Lawrence Middleton;George Deligiannidis;Arnaud Doucet;Pierre E. Jacob

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Optimizing the tie-breaker regression discontinuity design

    Art B. Owen;Hal Varian

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • Regression diagnostics meets forecast evaluation: conditional calibration, reliability diagrams, and coefficient of determination

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Modeling of time series using random forests: Theoretical developments

    Richard A. Davis;Mikkel S. Nielsen

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Gaussian processes with multidimensional distribution inputs via optimal transport and Hilbertian embedding

    François Bachoc;Alexandra Suvorikova;David Ginsbourger;Jean-Michel Loubes

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Corrigendum to “Maximum likelihood estimation in logistic regression models with a diverging number of covariates”

    (2023)
    17 Citations
  • The Minimax Learning Rate of Normal and Ising Undirected Graphical Models.

    Luc Devroye;Abbas Mehrabian;Tommy Reddad

    (2020)
    17 Citations

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