''Psychometrika'' is the official
journal of the
Psychometric Society
The Psychometric Society is an international nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences.
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, a
professional body devoted to
psychometrics and
quantitative psychology
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. The journal covers quantitative methods for measurement and evaluation of
human behavior, including
statistical methods and other mathematical techniques.
Past editors include
Marion Richardson
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Biography
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,
Dorothy Adkins
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,
Norman Cliff
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, and
Willem J. Heiser
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'', the journal had a 2019
impact factor
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of 1.959.
History
In 1935
LL Thurstone,
EL Thorndike
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and
JP Guilford founded ''Psychometrika'' and also the
Psychometric Society
The Psychometric Society is an international nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences.
The society publishes a scientific journal calle ...
.
Editors-in-chief
The complete list of
editor-in-chief
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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
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of Psychometrika:
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Paul Horst
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Albert K. Kurtz
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Dorothy Adkins
Dorothy Christina Adkins (April 6, 1912 – December 19, 1975) was an American psychologist. Adkins is best known for her work in psychometrics and education testing, particularly in achievement testing. She was the first female president of the ...
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Norman Cliff
Norman Cliff (born September 1, 1930) is an American psychologist. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in psychometrics in 1957. After research positions in the US Public Health Service and at Educational Testing Service he joined the Universit ...
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Roger Millsap
Roger Ellis Millsap (November 18, 1954 – May 9, 2014) was an American psychometrician known for his research on measurement invariance.
Millsap was born on November 18, 1954 in Olympia, Washington. He was the only child of Max Ellis Millsap, w ...
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Shizuhiko Nishisato
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Willem J. Heiser
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See also
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List of scientific journals in statistics
This is a list of scientific journals published in the field of statistics.
Introductory and outreach
*''The American Statistician''
*'' Significance''
General theory and methodology
*''Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics''
*''An ...
References
External links
PsychometrikaThe Psychometric Society
Psychometrics journals
Publications established in 1936
Quarterly journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States
English-language journals
Mathematical and statistical psychology journals
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