James Pickands

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

James Pickands is a scholar working on Finance, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, James Pickands has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Finance, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in James Pickands's work include Stochastic processes and financial applications (6 papers), Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling (4 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (4 papers). James Pickands is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and financial applications (6 papers), Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling (4 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (4 papers). James Pickands collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. James Pickands's co-authors include Enrique Castillo, Laurens de Haan, Abba Μ. Krieger, M. Raghavachari and E. J. Gumbel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

James Pickands

20 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Statistical Inference Using Extreme Order Statistics 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 1989 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Statistical Inference Using Extreme Order Statistics
    1975 2.4k citations James Pickands The Annals of Statistics profile →
  2. Extreme Value Theory in Engineering.
    1989 654 citations James Pickands, Enrique Castillo Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Pickands United States 15 1.6k 1.1k 829 710 450 21 3.9k
Holger Rootzén Sweden 31 2.5k 1.5× 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 971 1.4× 445 1.0× 83 6.1k
Hans R. Künsch Switzerland 30 833 0.5× 784 0.7× 1.2k 1.4× 714 1.0× 281 0.6× 66 4.2k
Jan Beirlant Belgium 31 2.2k 1.4× 1.1k 1.0× 1.7k 2.1× 1.0k 1.5× 350 0.8× 134 4.8k
Rolf–Dieter Reiss Germany 15 1.1k 0.7× 448 0.4× 939 1.1× 401 0.6× 195 0.4× 57 2.3k
Ana Ferreira Portugal 28 1.5k 0.9× 768 0.7× 754 0.9× 540 0.8× 146 0.3× 56 4.4k
Bruno Rémillard Canada 21 1.5k 0.9× 729 0.7× 776 0.9× 781 1.1× 146 0.3× 96 2.8k
Fabrizio Durante Italy 32 1.6k 1.0× 974 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 446 0.6× 264 0.6× 145 3.5k
Emil Julius Gumbel United States 6 413 0.3× 805 0.7× 371 0.4× 286 0.4× 320 0.7× 9 3.3k
Trevor J. Ringrose United Kingdom 12 1.4k 0.9× 411 0.4× 818 1.0× 799 1.1× 167 0.4× 30 3.0k
E. J. Gumbel United States 18 474 0.3× 409 0.4× 953 1.1× 233 0.3× 409 0.9× 40 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Pickands

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Pickands

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Pickands. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Pickands based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James Pickands. James Pickands is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Pickands, James & Enrique Castillo. (1989). Extreme Value Theory in Engineering.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 84(408). 1099–1099. 654 indexed citations breakdown →
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Haan, Laurens de & James Pickands. (1986). Stationary min-stable stochastic processes. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 72(4). 477–492. 55 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1986). The Continuous and Differentiable Domains of Attraction of the Extreme Value Distributions. The Annals of Probability. 14(3). 19 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1983). Extreme order statistics with cost of sampling. Advances in Applied Probability. 15(4). 783–797. 1 indexed citations
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Krieger, Abba Μ. & James Pickands. (1981). Weak Convergence and Efficient Density Estimation at a Point. The Annals of Statistics. 9(5). 34 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1975). Statistical Inference Using Extreme Order Statistics. The Annals of Statistics. 3(1). 2434 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pickands, James. (1971). The two-dimensional Poisson process and extremal processes. Journal of Applied Probability. 8(4). 745–756. 41 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1971). The two-dimensional Poisson process and extremal processes. Journal of Applied Probability. 8(4). 745–756. 115 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1970). Spectral Estimation with Random Truncation. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 41(1). 44–58. 6 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1969). Upcrossing probabilities for stationary Gaussian processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 145(0). 51–73. 140 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1969). Upcrossing Probabilities for Stationary Gaussian Processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 145. 51–51. 18 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1969). Asymptotic properties of the maximum in a stationary Gaussian process.. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 145(0). 75–86. 95 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1969). Asymptotic Properties of the Maximum in a Stationary Gaussian Process. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 145. 75–75. 31 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1969). Efficient Estimation of a Probability Density Function. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 40(3). 854–864. 10 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1969). An iterated logarithm law for the maximum in a stationary gaussian sequence. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 12(4). 344–353. 22 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1968). Moment Convergence of Sample Extremes. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39(3). 881–889. 84 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1967). Sample Sequences of Maxima. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 38(5). 1570–1574. 17 indexed citations
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Pickands, James. (1967). Maxima of stationary Gaussian processes. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 7(3). 190–223. 57 indexed citations
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Gumbel, E. J. & James Pickands. (1967). Probability Tables for the Extremal Quotient. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 38(5). 1541–1551. 6 indexed citations

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