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Journal of the American Statistical Association
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Journal of the American Statistical Association

0162-1459

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uasa20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 7 133 299 39

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 295
Documents by Best Scientists*: 437
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 33
SCIMAGO H-index: 227
SCIMAGO SJR: 4.103
Impact Factor: 3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of the American Statistical Association?

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Statistics, Econometrics, Applied mathematics, Estimator and Mathematical optimization. Journal of the American Statistical Association primarily discusses Statistics topics, particularly Regression analysis, Nonparametric statistics, Sample size determination, Linear regression and Covariate.

  • Statistics (37.88%)
  • Econometrics (17.58%)
  • Applied mathematics (10.07%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations (45869 citations)
  • Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.) (27304 citations)
  • Classification and Regression Trees. (21490 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of the American Statistical Association:

The published articles mainly tackle studies in Statistics, Econometrics, Applied mathematics, Estimator and Regression analysis. Statistics study tackled in the most cited papers is connected to the field of Algorithm. The most cited papers explore issues in Applied mathematics which can be linked to other research areas like Linear model, Mathematical optimization and Monte Carlo method.

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

  • Statistics
  • World War II
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Statistics, Artificial intelligence, Inference, Algorithm and Applied mathematics are the focal point of discussions in the journal. Covariate, Estimator and Multivariate statistics studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Statistics presented. In it, Machine learning, Estimation and Pattern recognition are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Artificial intelligence research.

The work on Inference addressed in it expands to the thematically related Econometrics. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Applied mathematics, apply to High dimensional as well.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models (59 citations)
  • Fast Calibrated Additive Quantile Regression (47 citations)
  • Hierarchical Probabilistic Forecasting of Electricity Demand With Smart Meter Data (34 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 Journal of the American Statistical Association (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Raymond J. Carroll (77 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Donald B. Rubin (60 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jianqing Fan (56 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Paul R. Rosenbaum (48 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Bradley Efron (45 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 Journal of the American Statistical Association (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (381 papers) published 28 papers at the last edition, 14 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (252 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Chicago (209 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (208 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (203 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 3 more 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, 0.64% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 37.74% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.16% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.29% of all publications and 25.81% 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

  • Fast Calibrated Additive Quantile Regression

    Matteo Fasiolo;Simon N. Wood;Margaux Zaffran;Raphaël Nedellec

    (2021)
    329 Citations
  • Adaptive Huber Regression.

    Qiang Sun;Wen Xin Zhou;Jianqing Fan

    (2020)
    255 Citations
  • A New Coefficient of Correlation

    Sourav Chatterjee

    (2020)
    238 Citations
  • Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?

    (2021)
    213 Citations
  • Efficiently inferring the demographic history of many populations with allele count data.

    Jack Kamm;Jonathan Terhorst;Richard Durbin;Yun S. Song

    (2020)
    194 Citations
  • Hierarchical Probabilistic Forecasting of Electricity Demand With Smart Meter Data

    Souhaib Ben Taieb;James W. Taylor;Rob J. Hyndman

    (2021)
    116 Citations
  • Prediction, Estimation, and Attribution

    Bradley Efron

    (2020)
    114 Citations
  • Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes

    (2023)
    106 Citations
  • Communication-Efficient Accurate Statistical Estimation

    Jianqing Fan;Yongyi Guo;Kaizheng Wang

    (2021)
    102 Citations
  • Stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo

    Christopher Nemeth;Paul Fearnhead

    (2021)
    99 Citations

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