Jacob Cohen

125.4k total citations · 18 hit papers
113 papers, 96.0k citations indexed

About

Jacob Cohen is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob Cohen has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 96.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Clinical Psychology, 15 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 15 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Jacob Cohen's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (11 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (7 papers). Jacob Cohen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (11 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (7 papers). Jacob Cohen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Jacob Cohen's co-authors include Joseph L. Fleiss, B. S. Everitt, Patricia Cohen, Elmer L. Struening, J.C. Daly, Leona S. Aiken, Stephen G. West, Judith S. Brook, Carmen Noemí Vélez and Michael Borenstein and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Jacob Cohen

112 papers receiving 89.5k citations

Hit Papers

A power primer. 1960 2026 1982 2004 1992 1960 1968 1992 1994 10.0k 20.0k 30.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A power primer.
    1992 33.5k citations Jacob Cohen Psychological Bulletin profile →
  2. A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
    1960 31.0k citations Jacob Cohen Educational and Psychological Measurement profile →
  3. Weighted kappa: Nominal scale agreement provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit.
    1968 6.6k citations Jacob Cohen Psychological Bulletin profile →
  4. Statistical Power Analysis
    1992 4.0k citations Jacob Cohen profile →
  5. The earth is round (p < .05).
    1994 2.8k citations Jacob Cohen American Psychologist profile →
  6. The Equivalence of Weighted Kappa and the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient as Measures of Reliability
    1973 2.6k citations Jacob Cohen et al. Educational and Psychological Measurement profile →
  7. Things I have learned (so far).
    1990 1.3k citations Jacob Cohen American Psychologist profile →
  8. The statistical power of abnormal-social psychological research: A review.
    1962 1.2k citations Jacob Cohen profile →
  9. Large sample standard errors of kappa and weighted kappa.
    1969 1.2k citations Jacob Cohen et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
  10. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
    1970 1.2k citations Jacob Cohen et al. profile →
  11. The Cost of Dichotomization
    1983 1.1k citations Jacob Cohen Applied Psychological Measurement profile →
  12. Set Correlation and Contingency Tables
    1988 1.0k citations Jacob Cohen Applied Psychological Measurement profile →
  13. An Epidemiological Study of Disorders in Late Childhood and Adolescence—I. Age‐ and Gender‐Specific Prevalence
    1993 725 citations Jacob Cohen et al. profile →
  14. QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY A Power Primer
    1992 716 citations Jacob Cohen profile →
  15. The Problem of Units and the Circumstance for POMP
    1999 652 citations Jacob Cohen et al. profile →
  16. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, Revised Edition.
    1978 469 citations Jacob Cohen et al. profile →
  17. Opinions about mental illness in the personnel of two large mental hospitals.
    1962 442 citations Jacob Cohen et al. profile →
  18. Factors influencing the outcome of psychotherapy: A review of quantitative research.
    1971 428 citations Jacob Cohen et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacob Cohen United States 49 17.1k 12.8k 10.2k 8.5k 8.0k 113 96.0k
Keith E. Muller United States 45 18.8k 1.1× 13.9k 1.1× 11.1k 1.1× 10.3k 1.2× 10.2k 1.3× 185 100.4k
Robert Rosenthal United States 103 11.3k 0.7× 14.8k 1.2× 10.9k 1.1× 9.3k 1.1× 5.3k 0.7× 418 58.2k
Linda S. Fidell United States 12 17.2k 1.0× 16.3k 1.3× 13.0k 1.3× 7.5k 0.9× 6.5k 0.8× 21 72.4k
Larry V. Hedges United States 84 10.9k 0.6× 7.3k 0.6× 7.0k 0.7× 7.2k 0.8× 8.3k 1.0× 275 74.9k
Lee J. Cronbach United States 47 9.5k 0.6× 11.5k 0.9× 9.3k 0.9× 7.6k 0.9× 6.8k 0.9× 118 63.0k
Barbara G. Tabachnick United States 35 18.1k 1.1× 17.2k 1.3× 13.2k 1.3× 7.5k 0.9× 6.6k 0.8× 68 74.8k
Jacob Cohen Israel 20 29.4k 1.7× 22.5k 1.8× 17.4k 1.7× 15.4k 1.8× 15.5k 1.9× 87 134.1k
Donald B. Rubin United States 118 12.3k 0.7× 8.1k 0.6× 19.8k 1.9× 7.1k 0.8× 3.4k 0.4× 406 209.1k
Reuben M. Baron United States 26 25.6k 1.5× 29.4k 2.3× 32.1k 3.2× 11.5k 1.4× 4.3k 0.5× 67 121.8k
Li‐tze Hu United States 18 27.4k 1.6× 28.3k 2.2× 23.2k 2.3× 13.1k 1.5× 6.9k 0.9× 22 98.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacob Cohen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cohen, Jacob. (2013). Some Issues in Power Analysis. 542–553. 4 indexed citations
2.
Cohen, Jacob, Carl Foster, Jos J. de Koning, et al.. (2013). Breaking Away: Effects of Nonuniform Pacing on Power Output and Growth of Rating of Perceived Exertion. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 8(4). 352–357. 14 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (2013). Differences between Proportions. 193–227. 5 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1999). Honoring the “E” in GME. Academic Medicine. 74(2). 108–13. 23 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1999). The predictable price of Proposition 209. Academic Medicine. 74(5). 528–528. 2 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1998). Medical schools and teaching hospitals–serving the needs of Americaʼs communities. Academic Medicine. 73(11). 1177–1177. 1 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1996). Why should the public help pay to educate doctors?. Academic Medicine. 71(8). 903–903. 1 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1993). Transforming the Size and Composition of the Physician Work Force to Meet the Demands of Health Care Reform. New England Journal of Medicine. 329(24). 1810–1812. 32 indexed citations
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Alpert, Murray, Enrique R. Pouget, Joan Welkowitz, & Jacob Cohen. (1993). Mapping schizophrenic negative symptoms onto measures of the patient's speech: Set correlational analysis. Psychiatry Research. 48(3). 181–190. 19 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1992). A power primer.. Psychological Bulletin. 112(1). 155–159. 33499 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cohen, Jacob. (1990). Things I have learned (so far).. American Psychologist. 45(12). 1304–1312. 103 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1988). Set Correlation and Contingency Tables. Applied Psychological Measurement. 12(4). 425–434. 1003 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cohen, Jacob & Michael Borenstein. (1988). Statistical power analysis : a computer program. 216 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1986). Statistical Approaches to Suicidal Risk Factor Analysis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 487(1). 34–41. 36 indexed citations
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Endicott, Jean, John Nee, Jacob Cohen, & Uriel Halbreich. (1986). Premenstrual changes: Patterns and correlates of daily ratings. Journal of Affective Disorders. 10(2). 127–135. 115 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1979). A Selected Review of Current Retinal Research and Study. Optometry and Vision Science. 56(2). 98–110. 2 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1973). Brief Notes: Statistical Power Analysis and Research Results. American Educational Research Journal. 10(3). 225–229. 38 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1967). An alternative to Marascuilo's "large-sample multiple comparisons" for proportions.. Psychological Bulletin. 67(3). 199–201. 20 indexed citations
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Cohen, Jacob. (1960). A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement. 20(1). 37–46. 31016 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cohen, Jacob, et al.. (1954). The psychosocial factors in muscular dystrophy.. PubMed. 3(1). 70–80. 28 indexed citations

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