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44
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3989
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1896

Seung W. Choi publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Seung W. Choi sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Seung W. Choi D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Seung W. Choi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Seung W. Choi is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research concentrates on areas intersecting psychometric methodologies, statistical methods, and health-related fields.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Linking Scores with Patient-Reported Health Outcome Instruments: A Validation Study and Comparison of Three Linking Methods, 2021, Psychometrika
  • PROsetta: An R Package for Linking Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, 2021, Applied Psychological Measurement
  • TestDesign: an optimal test design approach to constructing fixed and adaptive tests in R, 2021, Behaviormetrika
  • Validation of a Short Form for Health Literacy Assessment Using Talking Touchscreen Technology, 2020, HLRP Health Literacy Research and Practice
  • Adaptive test assembly with a mix of set-based and discrete items, 2021, Behaviormetrika

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Behaviormetrika
  • Applied Psychological Measurement
  • Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
  • Psychometrika
  • HLRP Health Literacy Research and Practice

Their main research subfields are:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Health

Topics covered in their work include:

  • Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
  • VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Statistical Methods and Inference

Seung W. Choi has collaborated often with several researchers, notably:

  • Sangdon Lim
  • Benjamin D. Schalet
  • David Cella
  • Niels Brinkman
  • David Ring

Best Publications

  • The patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005-2008

    David Cella;William Riley;Arthur Stone;Nan Rothrock

  • Item banks for measuring emotional distress from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): depression, anxiety, and anger.

    Paul A. Pilkonis;Seung W. Choi;Steven P. Reise;Angela M. Stover

  • Development of a PROMIS item bank to measure pain interference

    Dagmar Amtmann;Karon F. Cook;Mark P. Jensen;Wen Hung Chen

  • lordif: An R Package for Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Iterative Hybrid Ordinal Logistic Regression/Item Response Theory and Monte Carlo Simulations

    Seung W. Choi;Laura E. Gibbons;Paul K. Crane

  • Neuro-QOL: brief measures of health-related quality of life for clinical research in neurology

    D. Cella;J. S. Lai;C. J. Nowinski;D. Victorson

  • The future of outcomes measurement: item banking, tailored short-forms, and computerized adaptive assessment

    David Cella;David Cella;Richard Gershon;Richard Gershon;Jin Shei Lai;Jin Shei Lai;Seung Choi

  • PROMIS® Adult Health Profiles: Efficient Short-Form Measures of Seven Health Domains.

    David Cella;Seung W. Choi;David M. Condon;Benjamin David Schalet

  • Establishing a common metric for depressive symptoms: linking the BDI-II, CES-D, and PHQ-9 to PROMIS depression.

    Seung W. Choi;Benjamin Schalet;Karon F. Cook;David Cella

  • Neuro-QOL: quality of life item banks for adults with neurological disorders: item development and calibrations based upon clinical and general population testing

    Richard C. Gershon;Jin Shei Lai;Rita Bode;Seung Choi

  • How Item Banks and Their Application Can Influence Measurement Practice in Rehabilitation Medicine: A PROMIS Fatigue Item Bank Example

    Jin Shei Lai;David Cella;Seung Choi;Doerte U. Junghaenel

  • Measuring stigma across neurological conditions: the development of the stigma scale for chronic illness (SSCI)

    Deepa Rao;Deepa Rao;Seung W. Choi;Seung W. Choi;David Victorson;David Victorson;Rita Bode

  • Emotion assessment using the NIH Toolbox

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  • Establishing a common metric for self-reported anxiety: linking the MASQ, PANAS, and GAD-7 to PROMIS Anxiety.

    Benjamin D. Schalet;Karon F. Cook;Seung W. Choi;David Cella

  • Efficiency of static and computer adaptive short forms compared to full-length measures of depressive symptoms

    Seung W. Choi;Steven P. Reise;Paul A. Pilkonis;Ron D. Hays;Ron D. Hays

  • Defining the Developmental Parameters of Temper Loss in Early Childhood: Implications for Developmental Psychopathology

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Seung W. Choi;Alice S. Carter;Heide Hullsiek

  • The stigma scale for chronic illnesses 8-item version (SSCI-8): Development, validation and use across neurological conditions

    Yamile Molina;Seung W. Choi;David Cella;Deepa Rao

  • Firestar-D: Computerized Adaptive Testing Simulation Program for Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models

    Seung W. Choi;Tracy Podrabsky;Natalie McKinney

  • Setting standards for severity of common symptoms in oncology using the PROMIS item banks and expert judgment.

    David Cella;Seung Choi;Sofia Garcia;Karon F. Cook

  • Overview of the Spinal Cord Injury--Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) measurement system

    David S. Tulsky;David S. Tulsky;Pamela A. Kisala;David Victorson;Denise G. Tate

  • Comparison of health-related quality of life in patients with neuroendocrine tumors with quality of life in the general US population.

    Jennifer L. Beaumont;David Cella;Alexandria T. Phan;Seung Choi

  • Advancing a multidimensional, developmental spectrum approach to preschool disruptive behavior

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan;Seung W. Choi;Sara R. Nichols

Frequent Co-Authors

David Cella
David Cella Northwestern University
David S. Tulsky
David S. Tulsky University of Delaware
Allen W. Heinemann
Allen W. Heinemann Northwestern University
Jin Shei Lai
Jin Shei Lai Northwestern University
Richard Gershon
Richard Gershon Northwestern University
Karon F. Cook
Karon F. Cook Northwestern University
Dagmar Amtmann
Dagmar Amtmann University of Washington
Elizabeth A. Hahn
Elizabeth A. Hahn Northwestern University
Paul A. Pilkonis
Paul A. Pilkonis University of Pittsburgh
Ron D. Hays
Ron D. Hays University of California, Los Angeles

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