Abstract
Over the last few decades, statistics and probability became an integral part of major research areas with continuously increasing demand. This article aimed for bibliometric analysis of journals indexed in the category of “Statistics and Probability” under Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science (WoS) (2015–2019). After data extraction from WoS, the bibliometric analysis at source, author, and document levels was performed using “Bibliometrix” R-package. Out of 38 journals indexed in ESCI, 32 that fulfilled the criteria were selected. In total, 4,294 documents were retrieved and analyzed by various bibliometric metrices, and appropriate data presentation tools were planned. Sixteen countries were found as origin of sources, mainly from USA and India while 10 countries had one journal each. Among journals, Korean Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Statistics & Management Systems and Advances and Applications in Statistics contributed the most. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Statistics, Journal of Statistics & Management Systems, and Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research showed leading impact indices. Total number of authors were 6,374. Only one document was cited more than 100 times. Countries collaboration network showed three main groups with minor overlap. Two clusters of keywords namely survey sampling and distribution theory were found. Overall, a consistent publication production trend was observed. Countries with relatively higher impact journals were USA, India, and Pakistan. Total citations and average citations showed dominance of developed countries. Study findings can benefit researchers and other stakeholders of the study subject to plan with better informed decisions.
Highlights
Statistics and probability have expanded its scope over the last few decades and have become an integral part of many fields (Donoho, 2017; Drummond & Tom, 2011)
Total number of documents published for all 32 Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI) journals in Web of Science (WoS) category “Statistics & Probability” were 4,294, with 839, 835, 850, 900, and 842 documents published in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively
This article shares the bibliometric analysis for all 4,294 documents published in 32 ESCI journals in WoS category
Summary
Statistics and probability have expanded its scope over the last few decades and have become an integral part of many fields (Donoho, 2017; Drummond & Tom, 2011). This attribute has increasing demand and contribution for major areas of research such as Arts & Humanities, Life. Statistics and Probability is one of the most important subjects which provide methods to find structure and give insight through data. Recent advancement in computational methods has grabbed wide attention from researchers and readers of many disciplines toward this subject. There is limited literature that explore the development and evolution of the subject itself
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