Abstract
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.
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