This database identifies 4,492 “highly-cited” statistical papers from 147 peer-reviewed journals, with the primarily goal to help users improve their statistical practice. Standardly, papers have ≥ 100 citations in the ISI Web of Science since 1945, and ≥ 40 citations in 2018-2020 (or 2020-22, with a recent update of key journals). To help with accessing desired papers, we have developed a 4-level hierarchical classification system, (Kingdom, Phylum , Class, Order).
Three additional features:
| Family |
New methods: Modeling, Testing, Theory Existing methods: Commentary, Comparison, Software, Review |
| Genus | Type of method (e. g. Parametric, Nonparametric, Bayesian) |
| Species | Applied area of greatest use |
| Impact | Geometric mean of WoSCites and HF, which combines longterm and recent impact. WoSCites is total citations through 20XX. HF (for HotFactor) is the average number of citations from 2018-2020. The PaperID number is ordered according to Impact.. |
| Domain | HF is divided into HFTheory and HFApplied, based on App%, the estimated number of citations that are applied uses. |
| Slope | The 5-year linear slope of citation counts (2016-2020) |
| SP% | Percent of citations from Statistics Probability journals |
| Diffusion | A high value represents diffusion through the literature, obtained by WoSCites divided by the citations from the top WoS journal category |
| GSR | The ratio of the Google Scholar count to WoSCites |
| %Peak | 100 × WoS count in 2020 compared to peak WoS count |
| Tilt2004 | WoS count in 2020 divided by maximum(WoS count in 2004, 13.33) |
| Color code | Red (Top 5%), Gold (5-20%), Yellow (20-40%), Green (40-60%), Blue (60-80%), Light purple (80-95%), Dark purple (95-100%) |