Leo Katz

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Leo Katz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Leo Katz has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Leo Katz's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (3 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 papers). Leo Katz is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (3 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 papers). Leo Katz collaborates with scholars based in United States. Leo Katz's co-authors include James H. Powell, Charles Proctor, Robert F. Bales, Edgar F. Borgatta, Renato Tagiuri, Robert R. Blake, Charles P. Loomis, Joan H. Criswell, J. L. Moreno and Mary L. Northway and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Sociological Review and Psychometrika.

In The Last Decade

Leo Katz

22 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

A New Status Index Derived from Sociometric Analysis 1953 2026 1977 2001 1953 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. A New Status Index Derived from Sociometric Analysis
    1953 2.4k citations Leo Katz Psychometrika profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leo Katz United States 12 1.7k 960 474 358 304 23 3.0k
Samuel Leinhardt United States 20 2.6k 1.5× 877 0.9× 312 0.7× 1.2k 3.3× 110 0.4× 40 5.0k
Gert Sabidussi Canada 19 990 0.6× 407 0.4× 228 0.5× 155 0.4× 107 0.4× 52 3.1k
Stephen B. Seidman United States 14 883 0.5× 391 0.4× 171 0.4× 354 1.0× 341 1.1× 50 2.4k
Gary William Flake United States 18 1.2k 0.7× 994 1.0× 173 0.4× 187 0.5× 933 3.1× 35 3.0k
Scott A. Boorman United States 13 1.1k 0.7× 299 0.3× 87 0.2× 1.3k 3.6× 102 0.3× 32 3.2k
Patrick Doreian United States 35 1.4k 0.8× 321 0.3× 134 0.3× 1.0k 2.9× 210 0.7× 103 3.4k
Brian Karrer United States 19 2.1k 1.2× 725 0.8× 326 0.7× 488 1.4× 189 0.6× 22 3.2k
Martín Dillon United States 11 415 0.2× 2.6k 2.7× 289 0.6× 202 0.6× 1.8k 6.0× 38 4.4k
Gábor Szabó United States 15 1.7k 1.0× 405 0.4× 647 1.4× 599 1.7× 339 1.1× 35 3.2k
Tad Hogg United States 40 954 0.6× 1.6k 1.7× 195 0.4× 479 1.3× 533 1.8× 142 4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leo Katz

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Katz, Leo. (1977). Representation of disease etiologies by certain stochastic models. Journal of Applied Probability. 14(4). 663–674. 1 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo. (1977). Representation of disease etiologies by certain stochastic models. Journal of Applied Probability. 14(4). 663–674. 1 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo. (1975). Presentation of a Confidence Interval Estimate as Evidence in a Legal Proceeding. The American Statistician. 29(4). 138–142. 7 indexed citations
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Ratner, Stanley C., Leo Katz, & M. Ray Denny. (1974). Training a Surrogate for Evaluation of Tobacco Smoking of Humans: Rationale and Outcome. The Psychological Record. 24(3). 365–372. 1 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo. (1974). The Rumpelstiltskin Complex. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 10(1). 117–124. 1 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo & Robert S. Weiss. (1969). Statistics in Social Research, An Introduction.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 64(327). 1095–1095. 3 indexed citations
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Moreno, J. L., Helen Jennings, Joan H. Criswell, et al.. (1961). The Sociometry Reader.. American Sociological Review. 26(6). 944–944. 128 indexed citations
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Moreno, J. L., Helen Jennings, Joan H. Criswell, et al.. (1961). The Sociometry Reader. Revue Française de Sociologie. 2(4). 331–331. 2 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo & Charles Proctor. (1959). The Concept of Configuration of Interpersonal Relations in a Group as a Time-Dependent Stochastic Process. Psychometrika. 24(4). 317–327. 40 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo, et al.. (1958). A Note on Estimating the Statistical Significance of Mutuality. The Journal of General Psychology. 58(1). 97–103. 5 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo, et al.. (1956). Small Groups: Studies in Social Interaction.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 51(274). 416–416. 63 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo, et al.. (1956). The Variance of the Number of Mutual Choices in sociometry. Psychometrika. 21(3). 299–304. 16 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo & Harald Cramér. (1956). The Elements of Probability Theory and Some of Its Applications.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 51(273). 165–165. 5 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo & James H. Powell. (1955). Measurement of the Tendency Toward Reciprocation of Choice. Sociometry. 18(4). 403–403. 47 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo. (1955). Probability of Indecomposability of a Random Mapping Function. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 26(3). 512–517. 76 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo & James H. Powell. (1954). The number of locally restricted directed graphs. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 5(4). 621–626. 12 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo & James H. Powell. (1953). A Proposed Index of the Conformity of One Sociometric Measurement to Another. Psychometrika. 18(3). 249–256. 40 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo. (1953). A New Status Index Derived from Sociometric Analysis. Psychometrika. 18(1). 39–43. 2404 indexed citations breakdown →
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Katz, Leo. (1953). Confidence Intervals for the Number Showing a Certain Characteristic in a Population when Sampling is Without Replacement. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 48(262). 256–261. 14 indexed citations
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Katz, Leo. (1952). The Distribution of the Number of Isolates in a Social Group. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 23(2). 271–276. 9 indexed citations

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