Year: 2016
Type: editorial
Abstract: I congratulate the authors on this valuable contribution to the statistics profession, and for their diligent work collecting the coauthorship and citation data sets upon which their analysis is based.The paper provides a valuable perspective on an important aspect of relationships between papers and between individual statisticians in a few of the most prominent journals in the field.The authors' analyses of these relationships yields new insights, paves the way for future data collection efforts, and provides a valuable data set for further analytical exploration.In this brief discussion, I will give a few general comments and questions, and give suggestions for future work.I focus on three areas: author, paper and journal attributes, selection of authors and journals, and the role of time in the process of research collaboration and citation.
Source: The Annals of Applied Statistics
DOI: 10.1214/16-aoas896e
Author: Forrest W. Crawford
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2567822946