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Statistics and Computing
H-index 22

Statistics and Computing

0960-3174

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11222

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 75 70 118 20
Computer Science 429 35 57 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 134
Documents by Best Scientists*: 184
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 89
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.815
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Statistics and Computing?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Algorithm, Mathematical optimization, Applied mathematics, Artificial intelligence and Statistics. While Algorithm is the focus of Statistics and Computing, it also provided insights into the studies of Markov chain Monte Carlo, Inference, Expectation–maximization algorithm, Bayesian inference and Particle filter. The journal explores issues in Markov chain Monte Carlo which can be linked to other research areas like Markov chain and Gibbs sampling.

Statistics and Computing emphasizes research on Markov chain, which includes concerns such as Markov model. Topics in Mathematical optimization explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Smoothing, Monte Carlo method, Importance sampling, Convergence (routing) and Function (mathematics). Monte Carlo integration is a focus of the Monte Carlo method works in Statistics and Computing.

The study on Applied mathematics presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Posterior probability. The research on Artificial intelligence featured in it combines topics in other fields like Machine learning and Pattern recognition. The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Statistics and Econometrics.

  • Algorithm (30.76%)
  • Mathematical optimization (27.73%)
  • Applied mathematics (23.10%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A tutorial on support vector regression (7872 citations)
  • A tutorial on spectral clustering (6665 citations)
  • WinBUGS – A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility (4750 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Statistics and Computing:

The journal articles focus on Artificial intelligence, Mathematical optimization, Algorithm, Markov chain Monte Carlo and Applied mathematics. While the journal papers focused on Artificial intelligence, they were also able to explore topics like Machine learning and Pattern recognition. The journal articles explore research in Algorithm alongside concepts in Bayesian inference and other areas of study in Inference.

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:

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Algorithm, Applied mathematics, Monte Carlo method, Estimator and Bayesian probability. The tackled Algorithm research is interrelated with Function (mathematics) which concerns subjects like Random variable and Discrete mathematics. The close relationship between Posterior probability and Distribution (mathematics) is one of the points of interest dissected in Applied mathematics research.

Monte Carlo method research is the primary subject tackled in Statistics and Computing with a focus on Markov chain Monte Carlo. Statistics and Computing focuses on Markov chain Monte Carlo but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Mathematical optimization, Degeneracy (mathematics) and State space. Concepts in Machine learning, as well as related topics in Bayesian inference, are covered in the Bayesian probability research presented in Statistics and Computing.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Bayesian ODE solvers: the maximum a posteriori estimate (8 citations)
  • Efficient stochastic optimisation by unadjusted Langevin Monte Carlo: Application to maximum marginal likelihood and empirical Bayesian estimation (7 citations)
  • Implicitly adaptive importance sampling (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 Statistics and Computing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Christian P. Robert (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ajay Jasra (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Murray Aitkin (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David J. Nott (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Thomas Kneib (13 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 Statistics and Computing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Imperial College London (41 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Warwick (41 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lancaster University (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • National University of Singapore (32 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University College London (30 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 7.41% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 29.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.33% of all publications and 36.00% 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

  • Hilbert space methods for reduced-rank Gaussian process regression

    Arno Solin;Simo Särkkä

    (2020)
    202 Citations
  • The minimum regularized covariance determinant estimator

    Kris Boudt;Kris Boudt;Kris Boudt;Peter J. Rousseeuw;Steven Vanduffel;Tim Verdonck;Tim Verdonck

    (2020)
    64 Citations
  • Approximation and sampling of multivariate probability distributions in the tensor train decomposition

    Sergey Dolgov;Karim Anaya-Izquierdo;Colin Fox;Robert Scheichl

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Faster model matrix crossproducts for large generalized linear models with discretized covariates

    Zheyuan Li;Simon N. Wood

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Robust Bayesian synthetic likelihood via a semi-parametric approach

    Ziwen An;Ziwen An;David J. Nott;Christopher C. Drovandi;Christopher C. Drovandi

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • Graphical test for discrete uniformity and its applications in goodness-of-fit evaluation and multiple sample comparison

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Bayesian learning via neural Schrödinger–Föllmer flows

    (2021)
    36 Citations

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