Psychometrika is the official journal of the Psychometric Society, a professional body dedicated to psychometrics and quantitative psychology. The journal focuses on quantitative methods for the measurement and evaluation of human behavior, including statistical methods and other mathematical techniques.[1] Past editors include Marion Richardson, Dorothy Adkins, Norman Cliff, and Willem J. Heiser. According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal had an impact factor of 2.9 in 2023.[2]
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| Discipline | Psychometrics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Sandip Sinharay |
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| History | 1936-present |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 2.9 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Psychometrika |
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| CODEN | PSMTA2 |
| ISSN | 0033-3123 (print) 1860-0980 (web) |
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History
editIn 1935, LL Thurstone, EL Thorndike and JP Guilford founded Psychometrika and also the Psychometric Society.
Editors-in-chief
editThe current editor of the journal is Sandip Sinharay of Educational Testing Service. The complete list of editor-in-chief of Psychometrika can be found at:
https://www.psychometricsociety.org/content/past-psychometrika-editors
The following is a subset of persons who have been editor-in-chief of Psychometrika:
Some notable papers
edit- Rashevsky, Nikolas (1936). "Mathematical biophysics and psychology". Psychometrika. 1 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1007/BF02287921. S2CID 8824637.
- Hotelling, Harold (1936). "Simplified calculation of principal components". Psychometrika. 1 (1): 27–35. doi:10.1007/BF02287921. S2CID 8824637.
- Eckart, Carl; Young, Gale (1936). "The approximation of one matrix by another of lower rank". Psychometrika. 1 (3): 211–218. doi:10.1007/BF02288367. S2CID 10163399.
- Thurstone, Louis L. (1945). "The prediction of choice". Psychometrika. 10 (4): 237–253. doi:10.1007/BF02288891. PMID 21007982. S2CID 34975753.
- Guttman, Louis (1945). "A basis for analyzing test-retest reliability". Psychometrika. 10 (4): 255–282. doi:10.1007/BF02288892. PMID 21007983. S2CID 17220260.
- Cronbach, Lee J. (1951). "Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests". Psychometrika. 16 (3): 297–334. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.452.6417. doi:10.1007/BF02310555. S2CID 13820448.
- Kaiser, Henry F. (1958). "The varimax criterion for analytic rotation in factor analysis". Psychometrika. 23 (3): 187–200. doi:10.1007/BF02289233. S2CID 120450249.
- Kruskal, J. B. (1964). "Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis". Psychometrika. 29 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1007/BF02289565. S2CID 48165675.
- Horn, John L. (1965). "A rationale and test for the number of factors in factor analysis". Psychometrika. 30 (2): 179–185. doi:10.1007/BF02289447. PMID 14306381. S2CID 19663974.
- Tucker, Ledyard R. (1966). "Some mathematical notes on three-mode factor analysis". Psychometrika. 31 (3): 279–311. doi:10.1007/BF02289464. PMID 5221127. S2CID 44301099.
- Tucker, Ledyard R.; Lewis, Charles. (1973). "A reliability coefficient for maximum likelihood factor analysis". Psychometrika. 38 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1007/BF02291170. S2CID 50680436.
- Bentler, Peter M. (1980). "Linear structural equations with latent variables". Psychometrika. 45 (3): 289–308. doi:10.1007/BF02293905. S2CID 120921766.
- Akaike, Hirotugu (1987). "Factor analysis and AIC". Psychometrika. 52 (3): 317–332. doi:10.1007/BF02294359. S2CID 186239616.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Psychometrika: About this journal". springer.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ^ "Psychometrika". 2023 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2024.