Sonja D. Winter

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 975 citations indexed

About

Sonja D. Winter is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja D. Winter has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 975 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Statistics and Probability, 9 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Sonja D. Winter's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (7 papers), Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (5 papers) and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (5 papers). Sonja D. Winter is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (7 papers), Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (5 papers) and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (5 papers). Sonja D. Winter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and South Africa. Sonja D. Winter's co-authors include Sarah Depaoli, Rens van de Schoot, Marit Sijbrandij, Jeroen K. Vermunt, Oisín Ryan, Mariëlle Zondervan‐Zwijnenburg, Sanne C. Smid, Nancy E. E. Van Loey, Miranda Olff and Johan F. Hoorn and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology and Psychological Methods.

In The Last Decade

Sonja D. Winter

24 papers receiving 966 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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2016 433 citations Rens van de Schoot, Marit Sijbrandij et al. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja D. Winter United States	11	210	177	121	118	111	28	975
Simon Grund Germany	16	123 0.6×	193 1.1×	162 1.3×	133 1.1×	43 0.4×	31	814
Joost R. van Ginkel Netherlands	20	437 2.1×	233 1.3×	126 1.0×	163 1.4×	92 0.8×	46	1.6k
Akihito Kamata United States	18	200 1.0×	192 1.1×	156 1.3×	196 1.7×	39 0.4×	72	1.2k
Nidhi Kohli United States	18	79 0.4×	152 0.9×	64 0.5×	255 2.2×	59 0.5×	78	977
Anton K. Formann Austria	20	147 0.7×	318 1.8×	183 1.5×	185 1.6×	166 1.5×	56	1.3k
Cindy M. Walker United States	17	99 0.5×	105 0.6×	106 0.9×	75 0.6×	49 0.4×	39	980
Miroslav Sirota United Kingdom	20	90 0.4×	95 0.5×	211 1.7×	141 1.2×	151 1.4×	77	1.3k
Terrence D. Jorgensen Netherlands	17	398 1.9×	118 0.7×	208 1.7×	294 2.5×	40 0.4×	50	1.3k
Getachew Dagne United States	19	150 0.7×	298 1.7×	41 0.3×	58 0.5×	183 1.6×	87	1.1k
Chih-Chien Yang Taiwan	7	160 0.8×	80 0.5×	92 0.8×	134 1.1×	64 0.6×	19	679

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Cornell, Dewey G., et al.. (2025). Equity in law enforcement actions following a school threat assessment.. Law and Human Behavior. 49(4). 338–352. 2 indexed citations

Winter, Sonja D., et al.. (2025). Considering sexual and gender minority community inequity within the psychological mediation framework.. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Winter, Sonja D., et al.. (2025). How community and individual strengths “fill our cup”: A preliminary strengths-based psychological mediation framework for LGBTQIA+ communities.. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 72(5). 614–626.

Schoot, Rens van de, Bruno Messina Coimbra, Marit Sijbrandij, et al.. (2025). The hunt for the last relevant paper: blending the best of humans and AI. European journal of psychotraumatology. 16(1). 2546214–2546214.

Cornell, Dewey G., et al.. (2025). Behavioral Threat Assessment and Equity in Exclusionary School Discipline. School Psychology Review. 55(2). 241–257. 1 indexed citations

Embse, Nathaniel P. von der, Sonja D. Winter, Wes Bonifay, et al.. (2025). Reconciling discrepant universal screening data to improve decision-making: A Bayesian logistic regression approach. Journal of School Psychology. 110. 101461–101461. 1 indexed citations

Depaoli, Sarah, Sonja D. Winter, & Haiyan Liu. (2023). Under-Fitting and Over-Fitting: The Performance of Bayesian Model Selection and Fit Indices in SEM. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 31(4). 604–625. 5 indexed citations

Merkle, Edgar C., et al.. (2023). Opaque prior distributions in Bayesian latent variable models. Methodology. 19(3). 228–255. 3 indexed citations

Winter, Sonja D., et al.. (2023). Inequity within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community as a distal stressor: An extension of minority stress theory.. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. 12(2). 308–320. 2 indexed citations

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Winter, Sonja D. & Sarah Depaoli. (2023). Illustrating the Value of Prior Predictive Checking for Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 30(6). 1000–1021. 9 indexed citations

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Winter, Sonja D. & Sarah Depaoli. (2022). Performance of Model Fit and Selection Indices for Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with Missing Data. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 29(4). 531–549. 9 indexed citations

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Winter, Sonja D. & Sarah Depaoli. (2022). Detecting Prior-Data Disagreement in Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 29(6). 821–838. 2 indexed citations

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Winter, Sonja D. & Sarah Depaoli. (2022). Sensitivity of Bayesian Model Fit Indices to the Prior Specification of Latent Growth Models. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 29(5). 667–686. 13 indexed citations

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Schoot, Rens van de, et al.. (2021). The Use of Questionable Research Practices to Survive in Academia Examined With Expert Elicitation, Prior-Data Conflicts, Bayes Factors for Replication Effects, and the Bayes Truth Serum. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 621547–621547. 8 indexed citations

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Smid, Sanne C. & Sonja D. Winter. (2020). Dangers of the Defaults: A Tutorial on the Impact of Default Priors When Using Bayesian SEM With Small Samples. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 611963–611963. 22 indexed citations

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Winter, Sonja D. & Sarah Depaoli. (2019). An illustration of Bayesian approximate measurement invariance with longitudinal data and a small sample size. International Journal of Behavioral Development. 44(4). 371–382. 20 indexed citations

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Depaoli, Sarah, Sonja D. Winter, Keke Lai, & Kiero Guerra-Peña. (2019). Implementing continuous non-normal skewed distributions in latent growth mixture modeling: An assessment of specification errors and class enumeration. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 54(6). 795–821. 19 indexed citations

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Schoot, Rens van de, Marit Sijbrandij, Sarah Depaoli, et al.. (2018). Bayesian PTSD-Trajectory Analysis with Informed Priors Based on a Systematic Literature Search and Expert Elicitation. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 53(2). 267–291. 51 indexed citations

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Schoot, Rens van de, Sonja D. Winter, Oisín Ryan, Mariëlle Zondervan‐Zwijnenburg, & Sarah Depaoli. (2017). A systematic review of Bayesian articles in psychology: The last 25 years.. Psychological Methods. 22(2). 217–239. 238 indexed citations

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Winter, Sonja D. & Rens van de Schoot. (2017). Additional Information: Bayesian PTSD-Trajectory Analysis with Informed Priors. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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