OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Structural Equation Modeling-A Multidisciplinary Journal is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparison of Three Approaches to Class Enumeration in Growth Mixture Modeling when Time Structures are Variant Across Latent Classes	56
Review of Applied Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate Statistics Using Python by Daniel Denis	47
Testing Mean and Covariance Structures with Reweighted Least Squares	45
PolychoricRM: A Computationally Efficient R Function for Estimating Polychoric Correlations and their Asymptotic Covariance Matrix	43
Flexible Extensions to Structural Equation Models Using Computation Graphs	37
Correcting for Unreliability and Partial Invariance: A Two-Stage Path Analysis Approach	37
How to Derive Expected Values of Structural Equation Model Parameters when Treating Discrete Data as Continuous	35
A Growth of Hierarchical Autoregression Model for Capturing Individual Differences in Changes of Dynamic Characteristics of Psychological Processes	30
Review of An Introduction to Modern Modeling Methods	29
Research Design and Model Estimation Under the Partially Confirmatory Latent Variable Modeling Framework with Multi-Univariate Bayesian Lassos	24
Python Packages for Exploratory Factor Analysis	24
blcfa: An R Package for Bayesian Model Modification in Confirmatory Factor Analysis	22
Review of Educational and Psychological Measurement	19
Model Fit Indices for Random Effects Models: Translating Model Fit Ideas from Latent Growth Curve Models	16
Application of Associative Discrete-Time Survival Analysis Using Latent Transition Specification	16
Analyzing Longitudinal Multirater Data with Individually Varying Time Intervals	15
Structured Factor Analysis: A Data Matrix-Based Alternative Approach to Structural Equation Modeling	15
Equal Precision Measurement Structural Models	14
Latent Class Analysis with Measurement Invariance Testing: Simulation Study to Compare Overall Likelihood Ratio vs Residual Fit Statistics Based Model Selection	13
Fitting Structural Equations Models with Interactive and Dynamic Tools in JMP® Pro	13
Testing Piecewise Structural Equations Models in the Presence of Latent Variables and Including Correlated Errors	12
Model Estimation Approaches for Fully-Latent Principal Stratification with Small Samples	12
Latent Profile Transition Analysis with Random Intercepts (RI-LPTA)	11
Specification Search in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM): How Gradient Component-wise Boosting can Contribute	11
Evaluating Causal Dominance of CTmeta-Analyzed Lagged Regression Estimates	11

A Model-Based Shrinkage Target to Avoid Non-convergence in Small Sample SEM	10
Mixed-Effects Trait-State-Occasion Model: Studying the Psychometric Properties and the Person–Situation Interactions of Psychological Dynamics	10
Effects of Multivariate Non-Normality and Missing Data on the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation	10
Structural Parameters under Partial Least Squares and Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modeling: A Comment on Yuan and Deng (2021)	10
Unsupervised Model Construction in Continuous-Time	9
Multilevel Dynamic Twin Modeling	9
Discrete-Time Survival Analysis Incorporating Time Structure in Developmental Research	9
Estimating the Weight Matrix in Distributionally Weighted Least Squares Estimation: An Empirical Bayesian Solution	8
Linear Logistic Scoring Equations for Latent Class and Latent Profile Models: A Simple Method for Classifying New Cases	8
A Prediction-Oriented Specification Search Algorithm for Generalized Structured Component Analysis	8
Testing Model Fit in Path Models with Dependent Errors Given Non-Normality, Non-Linearity and Hierarchical Data	8
Assessing the Relative Importance of Predictors in Latent Regression Models	8
Latent Curve Detrending for Disaggregating Between-Person Effect and Within-Person Effect	8
A Closer Look at Random and Fixed Effects Panel Regression in Structural Equation Modeling Using Lavaan	7
Detecting Correlated Residuals in Exploratory Factor Analysis: New Proposals and a Comparison of Procedures	7
Scale-Invariance, Equivariance and Dependency of Structural Equation Models	7
Improving the Statistical Performance of Oblique Bifactor Measurement and Predictive Models: An Augmentation Approach	7
Model Specification Searches in Structural Equation Modeling with a Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm	7
Exploring the Unfolding of Dynamic Effects with Continuous-Time Models: Recommendations Concerning Statistical Power to Detect Peak Cross-Lagged Effects	7
Investigating Structural Model Fit Evaluation	7
The Impact of Non-Normality on Causal Effect Estimates in Structural Equation Models with Ordered Categorical Variables	7
Handling Measurement Error and Omitted Confounders Considering Informativeness of the Confounding Effect under Mediation Modeling	7
Multilevel Analysis of Mediation, Moderation, and Nonlinear Effects in Small Samples, Using Expected a Posteriori Estimates of Factor Scores	7
Optimal Instrument Selection Using Bayesian Model Averaging for Model Implied Instrumental Variable Two Stage Least Squares Estimators	7
Identifying Dynamic Shifts to Careless and Insufficient Effort Behavior in Questionnaire Responses; a Novel Approach and Experimental Validation	7
An Alternative Prior for Estimation in High-Dimensional Settings	6
Latent Interaction Effect in the CLPM Model: A Two-Step Multiple Imputation Analysis	6
Measurement Invariance: Dealing with the Uncertainty in Anchor Item Choice by Model Averaging	6
Mixed-Effects Models with Crossed Random Effects for Multivariate Longitudinal Data	6
Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Hierarchical and Second-Order Factor Models	6
An Evaluation of Methods for Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling	6
Latent Vector Autoregressive Modeling: A Stepwise Estimation Approach	6
The Impact of “Negligible” Cross-Loadings in Investigations of Measurement Invariance with MGCFA and MGESEM	6
Review of Artificial Neural Networks and Structural Equation Modeling Marketing and Consumer Research Applications.	6
The Effect of Noninvariance on the Estimation of the Mediated Effect in the Two-Wave Mediation Model	6
Sensitivity of Bayesian Model Fit Indices to the Prior Specification of Latent Growth Models	6
Semiparametric Structural Equation Models with Interval-Censored Data	6
Joint Deep Learning for Covariate Decomposition and Treatment Effect Estimation	6
Classification Accuracy of Multidimensional Tests: Quantifying the Impact of Noninvariance	6
Review of Structural Equation Modeling with lavaan, Kamel Gana and Guillaume Broc	6
Incorporating Measurement Error in the Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling Using a Single Indicator or Multiple Indicators	5
Testing Measurement Invariance over Time with Intensive Longitudinal Data and Identifying a Source of Non-invariance	5
An Evaluation of Non-Iterative Estimators in Confirmatory Factor Analysis	5
semlbci: An R package for Forming Likelihood-Based Confidence Intervals for Parameter Estimates, Correlations, Indirect Effects, and Other Derived Parameters	5
Bayesian Computation via the Gibbs Sampler for Mixture Models with Gaussian Distal Outcomes	5
Using Ant Colony Optimization for Sensitivity Analysis in Structural Equation Modeling	5
Causal Mediation Analysis with the Parallel Process Latent Growth Curve Mediation Model	5
Using Bounded Estimation to Avoid Nonconvergence in Small Sample Structural Equation Modeling	4
Impact of Informative Priors on Model Fit Indices in Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis	4
Review of Higher-Order Growth Curves and Mixture Modeling with Mplus: A Practical Guide	4

Deriving Expected Values of Model Parameters When Using Sum Scores in Simulation Research	4
Shrinking Small Sample Problems in Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling via Regularization of the Sample Covariance Matrix	4
Evaluation of Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model: Implications for Small Samples	4
Regularized 2SLS Estimation of Structural Equation Model Parameters	4
Performance of Model Fit and Selection Indices for Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with Missing Data	4
Bayesian Causal Mediation Analysis with Latent Mediators and Survival Outcome	4
`lavaangui` : A Web-Based Graphical Interface for Specifying Lavaan Models by Drawing Path Diagrams	4
The Specification and Impact of Prior Distributions for Categorical Latent Variable Models	4
Detrending for Intensive Longitudinal Dyadic Data Analysis Using DSEM	4
Revisiting Savalei’s (2011) Research on Remediating Zero-Frequency Cells in Estimating Polychoric Correlations: A Data Distribution Perspective	4
Leveraging Observation Timing Variability to Understand Intervention Effects in Panel Studies: An Empirical Illustration and Simulation Study	4
Multilevel Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling In A Single-Level Framework	4
Multilevel Factor Mixture Modeling: A Tutorial for Multilevel Constructs	4