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title: "Goodness-of-fit tests research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “goodness-of-fit tests” appeared in 249 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (221), economics (16) and operations research (6)."
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# Papers on “goodness-of-fit tests”

Research on “goodness-of-fit tests” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “goodness-of-fit tests” appeared in 249 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (221), economics (16) and operations research (6).
- 39 of them were published in 2025, against 24 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were North-West University (7), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (6) and University of Belgrade (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Statistical Papers (24), Statistics and Computing (16) and Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (9).
- The most-cited of them is “Uncertain hypothesis test for uncertain differential equations” (Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, 2022), with 151 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 21 | 19 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 26 | 18 | 36 | 24 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 24 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 39 | 28 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-theory-and-practice.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 8 |
| 5 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Metrika](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/metrika.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | North-West University | 7 |
| 2 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | 6 |
| 3 | University of Belgrade | 6 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 4 |
| 5 | Cochin University of Science and Technology | 4 |
| 6 | [Karlsruhe Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology.md) | 4 |
| 7 | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | 4 |
| 8 | FH Aachen | 3 |
| 9 | Mississippi State University | 3 |
| 10 | [Northeast Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeast-normal-university.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 26 |
| 2 | United States | 21 |
| 3 | Germany | 13 |
| 4 | Spain | 9 |
| 5 | India | 9 |
| 6 | Canada | 8 |
| 7 | Greece | 8 |
| 8 | South Africa | 8 |
| 9 | Japan | 6 |
| 10 | Serbia | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [asymptotic properties](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-properties.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [asymptotic distribution](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-distribution.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [asymptotic normality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-normality.md) | 9 |
| 4 | statistical power | 8 |
| 5 | parametric bootstrap | 7 |
| 6 | asymptotic null distribution | 6 |
| 7 | finite sample properties | 6 |
| 8 | heavy-tailed distributions | 6 |
| 9 | U-statistics | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 151 | 2.8 | [Uncertain hypothesis test for uncertain differential equations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10700-022-09389-w) | [Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/fuzzy-optimization-and-decision-making.md) | 2022-06-03 | Tingqing Ye, Baoding Liu |
| 2 | 97 | 0.9 | [Data breaches: Goodness of fit, pricing, and risk measurement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.05.008) | [Insurance Mathematics and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/insurance-mathematics-and-economics.md) | 2017-05-29 | Martin Eling, Nicola Loperfido |
| 3 | 76 | 1.2 | [On multivariate copula modeling of dependent degradation processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107450) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2021-06-05 | Guanqi Fang, Rong Pan |
| 4 | 35 | 0.3 | [Likelihood-based inference for bivariate latent failure time models with competing risks under the generalized FGM copula](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-018-0804-0) | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 2018-03-16 | Jia‐Han Shih, Takeshi Emura |
| 5 | 34 | 0.3 | [EDF-based tests of exponentiality in pair ranked set sampling](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-017-0913-9) | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 2017-05-16 | Ehsan Zamanzade |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “goodness-of-fit tests”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/goodness-of-fit-tests

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  title = {Papers on “goodness-of-fit tests”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).