InfoGuides: Statistics: Find Articles

Core Resources for Statistics Research

Pairing Google Scholar with Mason Libraries
This file contains instructions on how to set up Google Scholar so that links to documents in Mason resources are included.

Academic Search Complete
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887.
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Applied Science and Technology Full Text
Abstracts and indexes periodicals covering the fields of engineering, aeronautics, chemistry, computer technology and applications, earth sciences, energy and environment, mathematics, metallurgy and physics with full text from 1997-present.
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Current Index to Statistics
Bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. Limited pre-1975 indexed content.
MathSciNet
Provides access to reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences literature. Includes access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to present. Note: To access database from EBSCOhost, click here.
ScienceDirect
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
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Springer LINK
Access over 480 journals, books, book series (including Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Topics in Current Chemistry), protocols, and reference works published by Springer and its partners. Covers subjects in computer science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, business and economics, biomedical and life sciences. View a tutorial on this database here.

SpringerLink -Statistics
Access theoretical and applied statistics resources published by Springer

Wiley Online Library
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Provides access to: the full-text of nearly 1500 journals; the table of contents and abstracts of print books and reference works; as well as some full-text access to e-books. Subject areas include the sciences, social sciences, business, education, law, computer science and technology. View a tutorial on this database here.

Project Euclid
Search for Open Access statistical and mathematical research papers using this tool. If we don't have access to a paper, submit an ILL request.

zbMATH (Zentralblatt MATH)
Now Open Access! Access bibliographic data, reviews and abstracts from all areas of pure and applied mathematics, as well as its applications, in particular to the natural sciences, computer science, economics and engineering. Contains more than 3 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals and 1100 serials (1826-present).

Statistics at arXiv.org
Searchable archive of open access papers on statistical topics including methodology, theory, computation, etc.
StatLib (Carnegie Mellon University)
StatLib provides access to statistical software programs, datasets and other information.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
Provides a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. Contains new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. View a tutorial on this database here.
Dissertations & Theses @ George Mason University
Access full text of dissertations and theses in pdf format, as well as online 24 page preview. Content submitted by George Mason University, and published in Dissertation Abstracts. View a tutorial on this database here.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Search for open access (freely available) theses and dissertations archived in over 1100 college and university digital archives.

Statistics Journals

The American Statistician
This journal publishes "...general-interest articles about current national and international statistical problems and programs, interesting and fun articles of a general nature about statistics and its applications, and the teaching of statistics."
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, & Environmental Statistics
"Sponsored by the ASA and International Biometric Society, JABES includes papers of immediate and practical value to applied researchers and statistical consultants in the agricultural, biological, and environmental sciences."
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
"Co-sponsored by the ASA and American Educational Research Association, JEBS includes papers that present new methods of analysis, critical reviews of current practice, tutorial presentations of less well-known methods, and novel applications of already-known methods."
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
"JQAS contains timely, high-quality, peer-reviewed research on the quantitative aspects of professional and amateur sports, including collegiate and Olympic competition."
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
[Open Access] "Available for free online, JSDSE disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education."
Journal of the American Statistical Association
"Articles focus on statistical applications, theory, and methods in economic, social, physical, engineering, and health sciences."
SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification
"Published by the ASA and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), this journal includes research articles presenting significant mathematical, statistical, algorithmic, and application advances in uncertainty quantification"
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
"This journal covers topics including problems involving massive and complex data sets, solutions using innovative data mining algorithms and/or novel statistical approaches, and the objective evaluation of analyses and solutions."
Statistics and Public Policy
[Open Access] "SPP contains papers that apply strong statistical methodology to problems in public policy and/or relevant political science."

CHANCE
"CHANCE is a non-technical magazine highlighting applications that demonstrate sound statistical practice. CHANCE represents a cultural record of an evolving field, intended to entertain as well as inform."
Annals of Applied Statistics
"The Annals of Applied Statistics is published quarterly and their goal is to provide a timely and unified forum for all areas of applied statistics."
Annals of Statistics
"The Annals of Statistics aims to publish research papers of the highest quality reflecting the many facets of contemporary statistics. Primary emphasis is placed on importance and originality."
Biometrics
"Biometrics emphasizes the role of statistics and mathematics in the biosciences. Its objectives are to promote and extend the use of statistical and mathematical methods in the principal disciplines of biosciences by reporting on the development and application of these methods,"
Technometrics
"The mission of Technometrics has been to contribute to the development and use of statistical methods in the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences. Published quarterly by the American Society for Quality and the American Statistical Association."

Biostatistics (Oxford)
"The objective of Biostatistics is to advance statistical science and its application to problems of human health and disease, with the ultimate goal of advancing the public's health." 2020 JCR ranking: 5th out of 125 journals in the Statistics & Probability category.
Computational Statistics (WIREs)
Part of the Wiley Interdisciplinary Review Series.
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Full-text access from 1995-present. Includes Articles in Press.
Journal of Theoretical Probability
Full-text from 1997-present. Includes OnLine First pre-prints.
Probability Theory and Related Fields
Full-text from 1997-present including OnLine FIrst pre-prints.
Significance Magazine
"Significance is a bimonthly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. It demonstrates in an entertaining, thought-provoking and non-technical way the practical use of statistics in all walks of life."