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D-Index
46
Citations
35448
World Ranking
1306
National Ranking
580

Roderick P. McDonald publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roderick P. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 102 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Roderick P. McDonald D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roderick P. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Overview

Roderick P. McDonald was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their professional career was connected to this institution, where they contributed to the academic community.

During their career, McDonald did not have records of recent papers, co-authors, or publication venues that are currently documented in the provided data. Similarly, there was no information available about their main or subfields of study, nor details about specific research topics that they worked on.

No book publications or awards were recorded in the data. The absence of this information limits the detailed insight into their specific areas of expertise or recognition received.

Based on the available information, McDonald's academic footprint appears to be minimal in publicly indexed databases or has not been supplemented with detailed metadata at this time.

Best Publications

  • Principles and practice in reporting structural equation analyses.

    Roderick P. McDonald;Moon-Ho Ringo Ho

  • Goodness-of-fit indexes in confirmatory factor analysis : The effect of sample size

    Herbert W. Marsh;John R. Balla;Roderick P. McDonald

  • Test Theory: A Unified Treatment

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • Choosing a multivariate model: Noncentrality and goodness of fit.

    Roderick P. McDonald;Herbert W. Marsh

  • Factor Analysis and Related Methods

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • Test Theory: A Unified Treatment

    Rebecca Zwick;Roderick P. McDonald

  • THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PRINCIPAL FACTOR ANALYSIS, CANONICAL FACTOR ANALYSIS, AND ALPHA FACTOR ANALYSIS

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • The dimensionality of tests and items

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • Path analysis with composite variables.

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • An index of goodness-of-fit based on noncentrality

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • Some algebraic properties of the Reticular Action Model for moment structures.

    J. Jack McArdle;Roderick P. McDonald

  • Estimating Generalizability to a Latent Variable Common to All of a Scale's Indicators: A Comparison of Estimators for ωh

    Richard E. Zinbarg;Iftah Yovel;William Revelle;Roderick P. McDonald

  • NUMERICAL METHODS FOR POLYNOMIAL MODELS IN NONLINEAR FACTOR ANALYSIS

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • A general model for the analysis of multilevel data

    Harvey Goldstein;Roderick P. McDonald

  • Distinguishing Dimensions of Anxiety and Depression

    Jack B. Nitschke;Wendy Heller;Jennifer C. Imig;Roderick P. McDonald

  • A simple comprehensive model for the analysis of covariance structures

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • Linear Versus Models in Item Response Theory

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • DIFFICULTY FACTORS IN BINARY DATA

    Roderick P. McDonald;Kapur S. Ahlawat

  • Nonlinear factor analysis.

    Roderick P. McDonald

  • Structural Equations with Latent Variables.

    Roderick P. McDonald;Kenneth A. Bollen

Frequent Co-Authors

Harvey Goldstein
Harvey Goldstein University of Bristol
Niels G. Waller
Niels G. Waller University of Minnesota
Wayne F. Velicer
Wayne F. Velicer University of Rhode Island
David T. Lykken
David T. Lykken University of Minnesota
Nadine A. Kasparian
Nadine A. Kasparian Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Auke Tellegen
Auke Tellegen University of Minnesota
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
John J. McArdle
John J. McArdle University of Southern California
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Graham J. Mann
Graham J. Mann Australian National University

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