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American Statistical Association

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World rank, all time
#31,331
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#6,626
of 7,310
Research works
145
▲ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
71.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
American Statistical Association

Which fields of science does American Statistical Association work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research at American Statistical Association is in Social Sciences, 43% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Mathematics (23%), Computer Science (13%), Business, Management and Accounting (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 9 fractional works · 43.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 11.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 7.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 42.7% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 22.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 5 fractional works · 22.6% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 13.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 9.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKAmericanStatistical…20fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences43%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences43%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting211.3%
    2. Decision Sciences210.9%
    3. Social Sciences210.8%
    4. Arts and Humanities14.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance14.1%
    6. Psychology02.2%
    1. Mathematics522.6%
    2. Computer Science313.0%
    3. Engineering15.8%
    4. Environmental Science01.2%
    1. Medicine29.4%
    2. Health Professions01.5%
    1. Neuroscience01.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.02× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.67× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 19.22× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.44× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.50× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 11.32× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.94× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 19.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics19.22×4 works
  2. Decision Sciences11.32×2 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting3.50×2 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.94×1 works
  5. Computer Science1.67×3 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.44×1 works
  7. Neuroscience1.02×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.85×2 works
  9. Psychology0.73×0 works
  10. Health Professions0.57×0 works
  11. Medicine0.49×2 works
  12. Engineering0.39×1 works
  13. Environmental Science0.25×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at American Statistical Association?

Ranked on the quality score, Fred C. Leone, Ron Wasserstein and Marion E. Altenderfer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Statistical Association.

  1. 1 Fred C. Leone United States · #1,758,737 worldwide 1.5k citations · 52 works
  2. 2 Ron Wasserstein United States · #1,812,454 worldwide 12k citations · 62 works
  3. 3 Marion E. Altenderfer United States · #2,385,870 worldwide 106 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Donna LaLonde United States · #4,240,241 worldwide 207 citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Steve Pierson United States · #5,692,309 worldwide 109 citations · 54 works
All ranked researchers at American Statistical Association

What are the most cited papers from American Statistical Association?

The most cited paper from American Statistical Association is "The ASA Statement on p -Values: Context, Process, and Purpose" (Ron Wasserstein, Nicole A. Lazar, 2016), with 6,334 citations. Next come "Moving to a World Beyond “ p < 0.05”" (3,042) and "General Methods for Monitoring Convergence of Iterative Simulations" (2,027).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The ASA Statement on p -Values: Context, Process, and Purpose Ron Wasserstein, Nicole A. Lazar · The American Statistician Open access 7 Mar 2016 6,334
2 Moving to a World Beyond “ p < 0.05” Ron Wasserstein, Allen L. Schirm, Nicole A. Lazar · The American Statistician Open access 20 Mar 2019 3,042
3 General Methods for Monitoring Convergence of Iterative Simulations Stephen P. Brooks, Andrew Gelman · Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics Dec 1998 2,027
4 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics Richard Allen Levine, Eric Sampson, Thomas C. M. Lee · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics 13 Jun 2014 1,433
5 Cancer statistics, 1994 C. C. Boring, T. S. Squires, T. Tong et al. · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians Open access 1994 1,326
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Which keywords describe research at American Statistical Association?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Data Science, Big Data, Statistical Reasoning, Statistics Anxiety, Firm Performance, Analytics, Business Intelligence and Capture-Recapture.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 13 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 13 words, with their numbers
  1. Data Science4▲ 199×2 topics
  2. Big Data3▲ 14×3 topics
  3. Statistical Reasoning3▲ 933×1 topic
  4. Statistics Anxiety3▲ 933×1 topic
  5. Analytics2▲ 85×1 topic
  6. Business Intelligence2▲ 85×1 topic
  7. Firm Performance2▲ 43×2 topics
  8. Capture-Recapture1▲ 2295×1 topic
  9. Population Size Estimation1▲ 2295×1 topic
  10. Machine Learning1▲ 1.90×3 topics
  11. Statistical Modeling1▲ 134×2 topics
  12. R language1▲ 590×1 topic
  13. Statistical Analysis1▲ 29×1 topic

Which research topics does American Statistical Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Statistics Education and Methodologies, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Census and Population Estimation and Data Analysis with R.

Statistics Education and…3Statistics Education and Methodologies: 3 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 2 fractional worksCensus and Population Estimation: 1 fractional worksData Analysis with R1Data Analysis with R: 1 fractional worksGeographic Information S…1Geographic Information Systems Studies: 1 fractional worksSports Analytics and Per…0Sports Analytics and Performance: 0 fractional worksScientific Computing and Data Management: 0 fractional worksdemographic modeling and climate adaptation: 0 fractional worksResearch Data Management Practices: 0 fractional worksFinancial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis: 0 fractional works
Statistics and ProbabilityManagement Information SystemsArtificial IntelligenceGeography, Planning and Development5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Statistics Education and Methodologies Statistics and Probability 3 works
  2. 2 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 2 works
  3. 3 Census and Population Estimation Statistics and Probability 1 works
  4. 4 Data Analysis with R Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  5. 5 Geographic Information Systems Studies Geography, Planning and Development 1 works
  6. 6 Sports Analytics and Performance Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 0 works
  8. 8 demographic modeling and climate adaptation Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  9. 9 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 0 works
  10. 10 Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis Accounting 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available22.1%not open77.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.1%domestic only84.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has American Statistical Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is American Statistical Association as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000098% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%American Statistical Association0.000051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of American Statistical Association over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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