2026 Bradley Efron: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	103	39	33	27	23	267	200994

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2019 - International Prize in Statistics For the bootstrap
2016 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2005 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his contributions to theoretical and applied statistics, especially the bootstrap sampling technique; for his extraordinary geometric insight into nonlinear statistical problems; and for applications in medicine, physics, and astronomy.", Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.
1990 - Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, American Statistical Association (ASA)
1986 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1983 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
1983 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1981 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
1970 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Bradley Efron is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has made significant contributions in the fields of Mathematics and Medicine. Their primary focus lies within the subfields of Statistics and Probability as well as Artificial Intelligence, Epidemiology, Management Science and Operations Research, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The main topics covered in their work include Statistical Methods and Inference, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Data Analysis with R, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, and Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Frequently collaborating with other experts, Efron's notable coauthors include Trevor Hastie, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Yoav Benjamini, Richard D. De Veaux, and Scott Evans.

Their recent publications include:

Prediction, Estimation, and Attribution, 2020, Journal of the American Statistical Association
The Automatic Construction of Bootstrap Confidence Intervals, 2020, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Prediction, Estimation, and Attribution, 2020, International Statistical Review
The ASA president's task force statement on statistical significance and replicability, 2021, The Annals of Applied Statistics
Letermovir Prophylaxis Decreases Burden of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in Patients at High Risk for CMV Disease Following Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, 2020, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Efron frequently publishes in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Cambridge University Press eBooks, International Statistical Review, Harvard Data Science Review, and the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

In addition to articles, Efron has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including:

Computer Age Statistical Inference, Student Edition, 2021
Exponential Families in Theory and Practice, 2022

Throughout their career, Efron has received several awards including the International Prize in Statistics in 2019 for work related to the bootstrap, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2016, and the US President's National Medal of Science in 2005. The latter award recognized contributions to theoretical and applied statistics, especially the bootstrap sampling technique, and applications spanning medicine, physics, and astronomy. Other honors include the Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award from the American Statistical Association, membership in the National Academy of Sciences, and fellowship recognitions from the MacArthur Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Statistical Association.

Best Publications

An introduction to the bootstrap

Bradley Efron;Robert J Tibshirani

51130
Citations
Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife

Bradley Efron

16380
Citations
The jackknife, the bootstrap, and other resampling plans

Bradley Efron

12326
Citations
Least angle regression

Bradley Efron;Trevor Hastie;Iain Johnstone;Robert Tibshirani

12266
Citations
Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Other Measures of Statistical Accuracy

Bradley Efron;Robert Tibshirani

8212
Citations
Better Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

Bradley Efron

4635
Citations
A Leisurely Look at the Bootstrap, the Jackknife, and Cross-Validation

Bradley Efron;Gail Gong

4468
Citations
The Jackknife: The Bootstrap and Other Resampling Plans.

Leone Y. Low;Bradley Efron

4445
Citations
Estimating the Error Rate of a Prediction Rule: Improvement on Cross-Validation

Bradley Efron

3209
Citations
An Introduction to the Bootstrap.

S. T. Buckland;B. Efron;R. J. Tibshirani

2852
Citations
Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

Thomas J. DiCiccio;Bradley Efron

2756
Citations
Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment

Bradley Efron;Robert Tibshirani;John D Storey;Virginia Tusher

2298
Citations
Introduction to the Bootstrap, An

Bradley Efron;R. Tibshrani

2118
Citations
Improvements on Cross-Validation: The 632+ Bootstrap Method

Bradley Efron;Robert Tibshirani

2095
Citations
The Jackknife Estimate of Variance

B. Efron;C. Stein

1834
Citations
Nonparametric estimates of standard error: The jackknife, the bootstrap and other methods

Bradley Efron

1820
Citations
The Efficiency of Cox's Likelihood Function for Censored Data

Bradley Efron

1782
Citations
Computer-Intensive Methods in Statistics

Persi Diaconis;Bradley Efron

1689
Citations
Statistical Data Analysis in the Computer Age

Bradley Efron;Robert Tibshirani

1537
Citations
Bootstrap confidence intervalsCommentCommentCommentCommentRejoinder

Thomas J. DiCiccio;Bradley Efron;Peter Hall;Michael A. Martin

1446
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Tibshirani Stanford University

Trevor Hastie Stanford University

Vahé Petrosian Stanford University

Thomas C. Merigan Stanford University

Iain M. Johnstone Stanford University

Mark A. Winters Stanford University

Jonathan M. Schapiro Sheba Medical Center

Jose G. Montoya Stanford University

Persi Diaconis Stanford University

Jack S. Remington Stanford University

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