Psychometrika - Classic Papers from Psychometrika
Since the founding of Psychometrika in 1936, the journal has published highly cited and celebrated articles covering all aspects of the field of psychometrics. This list of papers highlights some of the best contributions to the journal over the years.
- Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests (this opens in a new tab)
Lee J. Cronbach
Psychometrika 16.3 (September 1951)
- An index of factorial simplicity (this opens in a new tab)
Henry F. Kaiser
Psychometrika 39.1 (March 1974)
- Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis (this opens in a new tab)
J. B. Kruskal
Psychometrika 29.1 (March 1964)
- A reliability coefficient for maximum likelihood factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Ledyard R Tucker & Charles Lewis Tucker
Psychometrika 38.1 (March 1973)
The varimax criterion for analytic rotation in factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Henry F. Kaiser
Psychometrika 23.3 (September 1958)A rationale and test for the number of factors in factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
John L. Horn
Psychometrika 30.2 (June 1965)Factor analysis and AIC (this opens in a new tab)
Hirotugu Akaike
Psychometrika 52.3 (September 1987)On methods in the analysis of profile data (this opens in a new tab)
Samuel W. Greenhouse & Seymour Geisser
Psychometrika 24.2 (June 1959)Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: A numerical method (this opens in a new tab)
J. B. Kruskal
Psychometrika 29.2 (June 1964)Analysis of individual differences in multidimensional scaling via an n-way generalization of “Eckart-Young” decomposition (this opens in a new tab)
J. Douglas Carroll & Jih-Jie Chang
Psychometrika 35.3 (September 1970)Hierarchical clustering schemes (this opens in a new tab)
Stephen C. Johnson
Psychometrika 32.2 (September 1967)A scaled difference chi-square test statistic for moment structure analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Albert Satorra & Peter M. Bentler
Psychometrika 66.4 (December 2001)Measurement invariance, factor analysis and factorial invariance (this opens in a new tab)
William Meredith
Psychometrika 58.4 (December 1993)Model selection and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC): The general theory and its analytical extensions (this opens in a new tab)
Hamparsum Bozdogan
Psychometrika 52.3 (September 1987)An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set (this opens in a new tab)
Glenn W. Milligan & Martha C. Cooper
Psychometrika 50.2 (June 1985)Note on the sampling error of the difference between correlated proportions or percentages (this opens in a new tab)
Quinn McNemar
Psychometrika 12.2 (June 1947)A rasch model for partial credit scoring (this opens in a new tab)
Geoff N. Masters
Psychometrika 47.2 (June 1982)A second generation little jiffy (this opens in a new tab)
Henry F. Kaiser
Psychometrika 35.4 (December 1970)Some mathematical notes on three-mode factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Ledyard R Tucker
Psychometrika 31.3 (September 1966)Generalized procrustes analysis (this opens in a new tab)
J. C. Gower
Psychometrika 40.1 (March 1975)The approximation of one matrix by another of lower rank (this opens in a new tab)
Carl Eckart & Gale Young
Psychometrika 1.3 (September 1936)A rating formulation for ordered response categories (this opens in a new tab)
David Andrich
Psychometrika 43.4 (December 1978)A new status index derived from sociometric analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Leo Katz
Psychometrika 18.1 (March 1953)The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. I. (this opens in a new tab)
Roger N. Shepard
Psychometrika 27.2 (June 1962)Estimation of latent ability using a response pattern of graded scores (this opens in a new tab)
Fumiko Samejima
Psychometrika 34.1 (March 1969)Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters: Application of an EM algorithm (this opens in a new tab)
R. Darrell Bock & Murray Aitkin
Psychometrika 46.4 (December 1981)A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
K. G. Jöreskog
Psychometrika 34.2 (June 1969)Determining the number of components from the matrix of partial correlations (this opens in a new tab)
Wayne F. Velicer
Psychometrika 41.3 (September 1976)Multidimensional scaling: I. Theory and method (this opens in a new tab)
Warren S. Torgerson
Psychometrika 17.4 (December 1952)A general structural equation model with dichotomous, ordered categorical, and continuous latent variable indicators (this opens in a new tab)
Bengt Muthén
Psychometrika 49.1 (March 1984)Application of model-selection criteria to some problems in multivariate analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Stanley L. Sclove
Psychometrika 52.3 (September 1987)On the Use, the Misuse, and the Very Limited Usefulness of Cronbach’s Alpha (this opens in a new tab)
Klaas Sijtsma
Psychometrika 74.1 (March 2009)Statistical analysis of sets of congeneric tests (this opens in a new tab)
K. G. Jöreskog
Psychometrika 36.2 (June 1971)The centrality index of a graph (this opens in a new tab)
Gert Sabidussi
Psychometrika 31.4 (December 1966)Simultaneous factor analysis in several populations (this opens in a new tab)
K. G. Jöreskog
Psychometrika 36.4 (December 1971)A general nonmetric technique for finding the smallest coordinate space for a configuration of points (this opens in a new tab)
Louis Guttman
Psychometrika 33.4 (December 1968)Latent curve analysis (this opens in a new tab)
William Meredith & John Tisak
Psychometrika 55.1 (March 1990)The theory of the estimation of test reliability (this opens in a new tab)
G. F. Kuder & M. W. Richardson
Psychometrika 2.3 (September 1937)A generalized solution of the orthogonal procrustes problem (this opens in a new tab)
Peter H. Schönemann
Psychometrika 31.1 (March 1966)Some necessary conditions for common-factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Louis Guttman
Psychometrika 19.2 (June 1954)The effect of sampling error on convergence, improper solutions, and goodness-of-fit indices for maximum likelihood confirmatory factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
James C. Anderson & David W. Gerbing
Psychometrika 49.2 (June 1984)The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. II (this opens in a new tab)
Roger N. Shepard
Psychometrika 27.3 (September 1962)An examination of the effect of six types of error perturbation on fifteen clustering algorithms (this opens in a new tab)
Glenn W. Milligan
Psychometrika 45.3 (September 1980)The development of hierarchical factor solutions (this opens in a new tab)
John Schmid & John M. Leiman
Psychometrika 22.1 (March 1957)Estimation of the reliability of ratings (this opens in a new tab)
Robert L. Ebel
Psychometrika 16.4 (December 1951)OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework (this opens in a new tab)Steven Boker, Michael Neale, Hermine Maes, Michael Wilde, Michael Spiegel, Timothy Brick, Jeffrey Spies, Ryne Estabrook, Sarah Kenny, Timothy Bates, Paras Mehta & John Fox
Psychometrika 76.2 (April 2011)Estimating item parameters and latent ability when responses are scored in two or more nominal categories (this opens in a new tab)
R. Darrell Bock
Psychometrika 37.1 (March 1972)Nonmetric individual differences multidimensional scaling: An alternating least squares method with optimal scaling features (this opens in a new tab)
Yoshio Takane, Forrest W. Young & Jan de Leeuw
Psychometrika 42.1 (March 1977)Logit models and logistic regressions for social networks: I. An introduction to Markov graphs andp (this opens in a new tab)
Stanley Wasserman & Philippa Pattison
Psychometrika 61.3 (September 1996)Maximum likelihood estimation of latent interaction effects with the LMS method (this opens in a new tab)
Andreas Klein & Helfried Moosbrugger
Psychometrika 65.4 (December 2000)Latent variable modeling in heterogeneous populations (this opens in a new tab)
Bengt O. Muthén
Psychometrika 54.4 (September 1989)Maximum likelihood estimation of the polychoric correlation coefficient (this opens in a new tab)
Ulf Olsson
Psychometrika 44.4 (December 1979)Ensuring Positiveness of the Scaled Difference Chi-square Test Statistic (this opens in a new tab)
Albert Satorra & Peter M. Bentler
Psychometrika 75.2 (June 2010)Cronbach’s α, Revelle’s β, and Mcdonald’s ω H : their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability (this opens in a new tab)
Richard E. Zinbarg, William Revelle, Iftah Yovel & Wen Li
Psychometrika 70.1 (March 2005)Coefficients Alpha, Beta, Omega, and the glb: Comments on Sijtsma (this opens in a new tab)
William Revelle & Richard E. Zinbarg
Psychometrika 74.1 (March 2009)Structural analysis of covariance and correlation matrices (this opens in a new tab)
Karl G. Jöreskog
Psychometrika 43.3 (December 1978)A basis for analyzing test-retest reliability (this opens in a new tab)
Louis Guttman
Psychometrika 10.4 (December 1945)On structural equation modeling with data that are not missing completely at random (this opens in a new tab)
Bengt Muthén, David Kaplan & Michael Hollis
Psychometrika 52.3 (September 1987)Weighted likelihood estimation of ability in item response theory (this opens in a new tab)
Thomas A. Warm
Psychometrika 54.3 (September 1989)Some contributions to maximum likelihood factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
K. G. Jöreskog
Psychometrika 32.4 (December 1967)A method of matrix analysis of group structure (this opens in a new tab)
R. Duncan Luce & Albert D. Perry
Psychometrika 14.2 (June 1949)Time-limit tests: Estimating their reliability and degree of speeding (this opens in a new tab)
Lee J. Cronbach & W. G. Warrington
Psychometrika 16.2 (June 1951)Redundancy analysis an alternative for canonical correlation analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Arnold L. van den Wollenberg
Psychometrika 42.2 (June 1977)Principal component analysis of three-mode data by means of alternating least squares algorithms (this opens in a new tab)
Pieter M. Kroonenberg & Jan de Leeuw
Psychometrika 45.1 (March 1980)The Bi-factor method (this opens in a new tab)
Karl J. Holzinger & Frances Swineford
Psychometrika 2.1 (March 1937)Discussion of a set of points in terms of their mutual distances (this opens in a new tab)
Gale Young & A. S. Householder
Psychometrika 3.1 (March 1938)Additive similarity trees (this opens in a new tab)
Shmuel Sattath & Amos Tversky
Psychometrika 42.3 (September 1977)Generalized multilevel structural equation modeling (this opens in a new tab)
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Anders Skrondal & Andrew Pickles
Psychometrika 69.2 (June 2004)On the relationship between item response theory and factor analysis of discretized variables (this opens in a new tab)
Yoshio Takane & Jan de Leeuw
Psychometrika 52.3 (September 1987)Who belongs in the family? (this opens in a new tab)
Robert L. Thorndike
Psychometrika 18.4 (December 1953)Multivariate information transmission (this opens in a new tab)
William J. McGill
Psychometrika 19.2 (June 1954)Fitting a response model forn dichotomously scored items (this opens in a new tab)
R. Darrell Bock & Marcus Lieberman
Psychometrika 35.2 (June 1970)Models for choice-reaction time (this opens in a new tab)
Mervyn Stone
Psychometrika 25.3 (September 1960)Synthesis of variance (this opens in a new tab)
Franklin E. Satterthwaite
Psychometrika 6.5 (October 1941)A method for simulating non-normal distributions (this opens in a new tab)
Allen I. Fleishman
Psychometrika 43.4 (December 1978)Understanding correlates of change by modeling individual differences in growth (this opens in a new tab)
David R. Rogosa & John B. Willett
Psychometrika 50.2 (June 1985)Linear programming techniques for multidimensional analysis of preferences (this opens in a new tab)
V. Srinivasan & Allan D. Shocker
Psychometrika 38.3 (September 1973)A goodness of fit test for the rasch model (this opens in a new tab)
Erling B. Andersen
Psychometrika 38.1 (March 1973)Coefficient alpha and the reliability of composite measurements (this opens in a new tab)
Melvin R. Novick & Charles Lewis
Psychometrika 32.1 (March 1967)A sequential theory of psychological discrimination (this opens in a new tab)
S. W. Link & R. A. Heath
Psychometrika 40.1 (March 1975)A model-based standardization approach that separates true bias/DIF from group ability differences and detects test bias/DTF as well as item bias/DIF (this opens in a new tab)
Robin Shealy & William Stout
Psychometrika 58.2 (June 1993)Linear structural equations with latent variables (this opens in a new tab)
P. M. Bentler & David G. Weeks
Psychometrika 45.3 (September 1980)Full-information item bi-factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Robert D. Gibbons & Donald R. Hedeker
Psychometrika 57.3 (September 1992)Sensitivity of MRQAP Tests to Collinearity and Autocorrelation Conditions (this opens in a new tab)
David Dekker, David Krackhardt & Tom A. B. Snijders
Psychometrika 72.4 (December 2007)Test reliability estimated by analysis of variance (this opens in a new tab)
Cyril Hoyt
Psychometrika 6.3 (June 1941)On the multivariate asymptotic distribution of sequential Chi-square statistics (this opens in a new tab)
James H. Steiger, Alexander Shapiro & Michael W. Browne
Psychometrika 50.3 (September 1985)Contributions to factor analysis of dichotomous variables (this opens in a new tab)
Bengt Muthén
Psychometrika 43.3 (December 1978)Representation of structure in similarity data: Problems and prospects (this opens in a new tab)
Roger N. Shepard
Psychometrika 39.4 (December 1974)A nonparametric approach for assessing latent trait unidimensionality (this opens in a new tab)
William Stout
Psychometrika 52.4 (December 1987)OpenMx 2.0: Extended Structural Equation and Statistical Modeling (this opens in a new tab)
Michael C. Neale, Michael D. Hunter, Joshua N. Pritikin, Mahsa Zahery, Timothy R. Brick, Robert M. Kirkpatrick, Ryne Estabrook, Timothy C. Bates, Hermine H. Maes & Steven M. Boker
Psychometrika 81.2 (June 2016)A least squares algorithm for fitting additive trees to proximity data (this opens in a new tab)
Geert De Soete
Psychometrika 48.4 (December 1983)Alpha factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Henry F. Kaiser & John Caffrey
Psychometrika 30.1 (March 1965)EM algorithms for ML factor analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Donald B. Rubin & Dorothy T. Thayer
Psychometrika 47.1 (March 1982)Power of the likelihood ratio test in covariance structure analysis (this opens in a new tab)
Albert Satorra & Willem E. Saris
Psychometrika 50.1 (March 1985)A dynamic factor model for the analysis of multivariate time series (this opens in a new tab)
Peter C. M. Molenaar
Psychometrika 50.2 (June 1985)Orthogonal rotation to congruence (this opens in a new tab)
Norman Cliff
Psychometrika 31.1 (March 1966)