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Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring

Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring is a research topic within Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of statistical process control (SPC) in research and healthcare improvement. It covers topics such as control charts, multivariate monitoring, quality assurance, linear profiles, change-point detection, process capability indices, risk-adjusted charts, and profile monitoring in the context of healthcare and public health surveillance.

  • Statistical Process Control
  • Healthcare Improvement
  • Control Charts
  • Multivariate Monitoring
  • Quality Assurance
  • Linear Profiles
  • Change-Point Detection
  • Process Capability Indices
  • Risk-Adjusted Charts
  • Profile Monitoring
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring

Which countries lead Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (506 and 454 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 506 works
  2. 2 United States 454 works
  3. 3 India 241 works
  4. 4 Germany 129 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 112 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 92 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 84 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 81 works
  9. 9 Iran 78 works
  10. 10 Italy 78 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 27.3%United States: 24.5%India: 13.0%Germany: 7.0%6 others listed: 28.3%27%largest
China506 · 27.3%United States454 · 24.5%India241 · 13.0%Germany129 · 7.0%6 others listed524 · 28.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring research?

By volume in 2022-now, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok publishes the most Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Quaid-i-Azam University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 King Mongkut's University of Technology North BangkokThailand 30 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works
  3. 3 Quaid-i-Azam UniversityPakistan 18 works
  4. 4 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 15 works
  5. 5 King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 13 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 13 works
  7. 7 Beihang UniversityChina 13 works
  8. 8 Indian Statistical InstituteIndia 13 works
  9. 9 King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 12 works
  10. 10 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring include Robert John Tibshirani, Donald B. Rubin and Trevor Hastie.

  1. 1 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  2. 2 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  3. 3 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  4. 4 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  5. 5 Leo Breiman United States 243k citations
  6. 6 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring?

The most cited paper in Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring is "A Caution Regarding Rules of Thumb for Variance Inflation Factors" (Robert M. O’Brien, 2007), with 11,097 citations. Next come "Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing: Keep it maximal" (10,749) and "A Comparison of Three Methods for Selecting Values of Input Variables in the Analysis of Output from a Computer Code" (7,571).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Caution Regarding Rules of Thumb for Variance Inflation Factors Robert M. O’Brien · Quality & Quantity 12 Mar 2007 11,097
2 Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing: Keep it maximal Dale J. Barr, Roger Lévy, Christoph Scheepers et al. · Journal of Memory and Language Open access 3 Jan 2013 10,749
3 A Comparison of Three Methods for Selecting Values of Input Variables in the Analysis of Output from a Computer Code Michael D. McKay, Richard J. Beckman, William Jay Conover · Technometrics Feb 2000 7,571
4 Robust Estimation of a Location Parameter Peter J. Huber · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics Open access Mar 1964 7,272
5 Basic principles of ROC analysis Charles E. Metz · Seminars in Nuclear Medicine Oct 1978 6,107
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Where is Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Bangkok (Thailand) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Taichung and Islamabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 100 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 45 works
  3. 3 BangkokThailand 39 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 34 works
  5. 5 IslamabadPakistan 32 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 28 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 26 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 24 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 24 works
  10. 10 TaipeiTaiwan 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TaichungTW · 21.9 works8.2×
  2. IslamabadPK · 32.0 works7.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring?

Among universities, judged by research, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, COMSATS University Islamabad and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityCOMSATS University I…King Fahd University…King Mongkut's Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1King Mongkut's University of Technology North BangkokThailand 58.78.1%90.1×30 +102.1%
2COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 57.628.8%15.6×10 -18.1%
3King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 56.123.3%13.4×12 -29.3%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.932.8%1.9×13 -20.0%
5Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.026.1%6.3×8 +7.4%
6Quaid-i-Azam UniversityPakistan 51.37.4%30.8×18 -16.1%
7University of the PunjabPakistan 47.918.1%10.6×8 +127.5%
8National Tsing Hua UniversityTaiwan 44.323.6%14.0×9 -19.8%
9King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 40.17.7%9.3×13 -55.2%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 40.118.0%1.8×11 -1.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring, country by country

Is Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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