Leslie Kish

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Leslie Kish is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Sociology and Political Science and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Leslie Kish has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Statistics and Probability, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Leslie Kish's work include Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (8 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (6 papers) and Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques (6 papers). Leslie Kish is often cited by papers focused on Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (8 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (6 papers) and Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques (6 papers). Leslie Kish collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and United Kingdom. Leslie Kish's co-authors include James S. Coleman, Martin R. Frankel, John B. Lansing, William G. Madow, William N. Hurwitz, Morris H. Hansen, Graham Kalton, Dallas W. Anderson, Alastair Scott and Paul R. Rosenbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Marketing and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

Leslie Kish

67 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Introduction to Mathematical Sociology. 1954 2026 1978 2002 1965 1954 250 500 750
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. Introduction to Mathematical Sociology.
    1965 809 citations Leslie Kish et al. profile →
  2. Sample Survey Methods and Theory
    1954 379 citations Leslie Kish et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leslie Kish United States 23 909 796 587 338 317 69 3.4k
Karl Schuessler United States 23 1.3k 1.4× 288 0.4× 550 0.9× 212 0.6× 332 1.0× 59 3.7k
Judith M. Tanur United States 23 860 0.9× 554 0.7× 268 0.5× 230 0.7× 349 1.1× 64 2.9k
Graham Kalton United States 32 1.2k 1.3× 678 0.9× 539 0.9× 175 0.5× 688 2.2× 80 4.2k
Paul P. Biemer United States 21 1.4k 1.6× 609 0.8× 508 0.9× 228 0.7× 471 1.5× 77 3.1k
Daniel Courgeau France 21 1.1k 1.2× 302 0.4× 499 0.9× 218 0.6× 566 1.8× 123 3.5k
Herbert L. Costner United States 15 867 1.0× 180 0.2× 195 0.3× 251 0.7× 201 0.6× 24 2.7k
Forrest D. Nelson United States 17 980 1.1× 190 0.2× 1.6k 2.7× 372 1.1× 326 1.0× 23 4.3k
Sharon L. Lohr United States 19 661 0.7× 661 0.8× 446 0.8× 247 0.7× 266 0.8× 69 3.0k
A. J. Scott New Zealand 25 364 0.4× 1.1k 1.4× 442 0.8× 143 0.4× 458 1.4× 65 4.3k
Lars Lyberg United States 12 1.2k 1.3× 402 0.5× 407 0.7× 166 0.5× 413 1.3× 23 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leslie Kish

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leslie Kish

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kish, Leslie, et al.. (2004). A “Replacement” Procedure for Reducing the Bias of Nonresponse. The American Statistician. 58(4). 295–297. 2 indexed citations
2.
Kish, Leslie. (2003). NEW PARADIGMS (MODELS) FOR PROBABILITY SAMPLING. Quality Engineering. 48(6). 629–632. 3 indexed citations
3.
Kish, Leslie. (2002). Combining multipopulation statistics. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 102(1). 109–118. 4 indexed citations
4.
Kish, Leslie. (1992). Taxonomy of elusive populations. Quality Engineering. 37(5). 269–272. 12 indexed citations
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Rosenbaum, Paul R. & Leslie Kish. (1988). Statistical Design for Research.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83(402). 568–568. 17 indexed citations
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Aaker, David A. & Leslie Kish. (1988). Statistical Design for Research. Journal of Marketing Research. 25(4). 411–411. 6 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie. (1987). Statistical Design for Research. 126 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie. (1986). TIMING OF SURVEYS FOR PUBLIC POLICY. Australian Journal of Statistics. 28(1). 1–12. 12 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie & Dallas W. Anderson. (1978). Multivariate and Multipurpose Stratification. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 73(361). 24–24. 3 indexed citations
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Anderson, Dallas W., Leslie Kish, & Richard G. Cornell. (1976). Quantifying Gains from Stratification for Optimum and Approximately Optimum Strata Using a Bivariate Normal Model. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 71(356). 887–892. 7 indexed citations
11.
Kish, Leslie & Martin R. Frankel. (1974). Inference from Complex Samples. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 36(1). 1–22. 416 indexed citations
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Keyfitz, Nathan & Leslie Kish. (1969). Survey Sampling.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 64(326). 670–670.
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Kish, Leslie. (1968). Standard Errors for Indexes From Complex Samples. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 63(322). 512–529. 7 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie, et al.. (1962). The Ratio Bias in Surveys. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 57(300). 863–863. 1 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie, Samuel Goldberg, & Emanuel Parzen. (1961). Probability: An Introduction.. American Sociological Review. 26(2). 302–302. 3 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie, et al.. (1961). Sample Design in Business Research.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 56(295). 740–740. 17 indexed citations
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Kish, Leslie. (1959). Some Statistical Problems in Research Design. American Sociological Review. 24(3). 328–328. 89 indexed citations
18.
Kish, Leslie. (1957). Confidence Intervals for Clustered Samples. American Sociological Review. 22(2). 154–154. 57 indexed citations
19.
Lansing, John B. & Leslie Kish. (1957). Family Life Cycle as an Independent Variable. American Sociological Review. 22(5). 512–512. 109 indexed citations
20.
Kish, Leslie. (1952). A Two-Stage Sample of a City. American Sociological Review. 17(6). 761–761. 7 indexed citations

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