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Overview

J. Scott Armstrong was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines, including oncology, management of technology and innovation, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

They contributed to several fields of study with a focus primarily on topics related to forecasting techniques and applications, lung cancer research studies, innovative approaches in technology and social development, entrepreneurship studies and influences, innovation, technology, and society, monetary policy and economic impact, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

The frequent co-authors with whom J. Scott Armstrong collaborated included:

  • Kesten C. Green
  • Andreas Graefe
  • Mingchao Xie
  • Haiyi Jiang
  • Karen Benzies

Armstrong published in diverse venues reflecting the range of their research interests. These venues included:

  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • The RUSI Journal
  • PS Political Science & Politics
  • Cancer Research
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Prominent papers authored by Armstrong were:

  • "The PollyVote Popular Vote Forecast for the 2020 US Presidential Election" (2020, PS Political Science & Politics)
  • "Violent Resistance in Occupied Ukraine: An Assessment of Network Capabilities, Access and Utility" (2025, The RUSI Journal)
  • "Index" (2022, Cambridge University Press eBooks)

Additionally, Armstrong contributed to papers outside direct authorship such as "Defining social innovation for post-secondary educational institutions: a concept analysis" (2024, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) and an oncology-focused abstract titled "Durvalumab (D) plus tremelimumab (T) in platinum-refractory/resistant extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC): Efficacy, safety and ctDNA dynamics from Arm A of the phase 2 BALTIC study" (2022, Cancer Research).

Armstrong authored the book The Scientific Method, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, contributing to discussions around methodological rigor in scientific investigation.

Best Publications

  • Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys

    J. Scott Armstrong;Terry S. Overton

  • Harvard Business Review: David M. Georgoff and Robert G. Murdick, manager's guide to forecasting, 64 (Jan-Feb.) (1986) 110-120

    J.Scott Armstrong;David M. Georgoff

  • The value of formal planning for strategic decisions: Review of empirical research

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Journal of economic literature: Clifford Winston, 1993, Economic deregulation: Days of reckoning for microeconomists, 31, 1263–1289.

    J.Scott Armstrong

  • Replications and Extensions in Marketing: Rarely Published but Quite Contrary

    Raymond Hubbard;J. Scott Armstrong

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

    J.Scott Armstrong

  • Competitor Orientation: Effects of Objectives and Information on Managerial Decisions and Profitability

    J. Scott Armstrong;Fred Collopy

  • Monetary incentives in mail surveys

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Peer Review for Journals: Evidence on Quality Control, Fairness, and Innovation

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Long-Range Forecasting: From Crystal Ball to Computer

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Social Irresponsibility in Management

    J.Scott Armstrong

  • Replication research's disturbing trend

    Heiner Evanschitzky;Carsten Baumgarth;Raymond Hubbard;J. Scott Armstrong

  • Sales forecasts for existing consumer products and services: Do purchase intentions contribute to accuracy?

    J.Scott Armstrong;Vicki G. Morwitz;V. Kumar

  • Methods to Elicit Forecasts from Groups: Delphi and Prediction Markets Compared

    Kesten C. Green;J. Scott Armstrong;Andreas Graefe

  • Unintelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Comparing face-to-face meetings, nominal groups, Delphi and prediction markets on an estimation task

    Andreas Graefe;J. Scott Armstrong

  • Simple versus complex forecasting: The evidence

    Kesten C. Green;J. Scott Armstrong;J. Scott Armstrong

  • Research on Scientific Journals: Implications for Editors and Authors

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Effects of corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility policies

    J. Scott Armstrong;J. Scott Armstrong;Kesten C. Green

  • International journal of public administration: Lance Eliot Brouthers, parties, ideology and elections: The politics of federal revenues and expenditures forecasting, 8 (1986) 289–314

    J.Scott Armstrong;Lance Eliot Brouthers

  • Methods to Elicit Forecasts from Groups: Delphi and Prediction Markets Compared

    J. Scott Armstrong

  • Combining forecasts: The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?

    J.Scott Armstrong

  • Public opinion quarterly

    J.Scott Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Roderick J. Brodie
Roderick J. Brodie University of Auckland
Heiner Evanschitzky
Heiner Evanschitzky University of Manchester
Robert Fildes
Robert Fildes Lancaster University
David B. Montgomery
David B. Montgomery Stanford University
Nicole Coviello
Nicole Coviello Lappeenranta University of Technology
Vicki G. Morwitz
Vicki G. Morwitz Columbia University
Spyros Makridakis
Spyros Makridakis University of Nicosia
Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
Robert S. Erikson
Robert S. Erikson Columbia University
Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa

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