• DOI:10.1214/SS/1177010655
• Corpus ID: 121371367

Citation Patterns in the Journals of Statistics and Probability

@article{Stigler1994CitationPI,
  title={Citation Patterns in the Journals of Statistics and Probability},
  author={Stephen M. Stigler},
  journal={Statistical Science},
  year={1994},
  volume={9},
  pages={94-108}
}

• S. Stigler
• Published 1 February 1994
• Economics
• Statistical Science

This is a study of the use of citation data to investigate the role statistics journals play in communication within that field and be- tween statistics and other fields. The study looks at citations as import- export statistics reflecting intellectual influence. The principal findings include: there is little variability in both the number and diversity of im- ports, but great variability in both the number and diversity of exports and hence in the balance of trade; there is a tendency for influence to flow from theory to applications to a much greater extent than in the reverse direction; there is little communication between statistics and probabil- ity journals. The export scores model is introduced and employed to map a set of journals' bilateral intellectual influences onto a one-dimensional scale, and the Cox effect is identified as a phenomenon that can occur when a disciplinary paper attracts a large degree of attention from out- side its discipline.