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title: "Statistical power research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “statistical power” appeared in 464 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (340), economics (48) and AI (14)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “statistical power” appeared in 464 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (340), economics (48) and AI (14). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Papers on “statistical power”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/6.md)

Research on “statistical power” 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 “statistical power” appeared in 464 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in statistics (340), economics (48) and AI (14).
- 62 of them were published in 2025, against 48 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Normal University (5), Duke University (5) and Inserm (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were BMC Medical Research Methodology (51), Statistical Papers (14) and Computational Statistics (10).
- The most-cited of them is “Mirror, mirror on the wall: a comparative evaluation of composite-based structural equation modeling methods” (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2017), with 2,577 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) | 31 | 18 | 25 | 31 | 35 | 46 | 26 | 40 | 52 | 36 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 48 | 30 | 42 | 47 | 49 | 54 | 37 | 52 | 62 | 43 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 51 |
| 2 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-theory-and-practice.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Sankhya B](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/sankhya-b.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [Duke University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/duke-university.md) | 5 |
| 3 | Inserm | 4 |
| 4 | [University of Pennsylvania](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-pennsylvania.md) | 4 |
| 5 | [Université Paris Cité](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-paris-cite.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 3 |
| 7 | China Pharmaceutical University | 3 |
| 8 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 3 |
| 10 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 63 |
| 2 | China | 43 |
| 3 | Germany | 16 |
| 4 | Canada | 10 |
| 5 | India | 10 |
| 6 | Japan | 9 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 8 | Sweden | 8 |
| 9 | Australia | 7 |
| 10 | France | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | type I error | 24 |
| 2 | type I error control | 24 |
| 3 | [asymptotic distribution](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-distribution.md) | 13 |
| 4 | goodness-of-fit tests | 12 |
| 5 | hypothesis testing | 12 |
| 6 | type I error rate | 11 |
| 7 | permutation tests | 10 |
| 8 | sample size determination | 10 |
| 9 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,577 | 22.1 | [Mirror, mirror on the wall: a comparative evaluation of composite-based structural equation modeling methods](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-017-0517-x) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2017-02-16 | Joseph F. Hair, G. Tomas M. Hult, Christian M. Ringle et al. |
| 2 | 319 | 2.8 | [What’s in a p? Reassessing best practices for conducting and reporting hypothesis-testing research](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-017-0078-8) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 2017-05-19 | Klaus E. Meyer, Arjen C. van Witteloostuijn, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk |
| 3 | 309 | 5.1 | [Revisiting Gaussian copulas to handle endogenous regressors](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-021-00805-y) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2021-10-11 | Jan-Michael Becker, Dorian Proksch, Christian M. Ringle |
| 4 | 297 | 2.6 | [Large sample size, significance level, and the effect size: Solutions to perils of using big data for academic research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.03.026) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2017-04-07 | Jalayer Khalilzadeh, Asli D.A. Tasci |
| 5 | 177 | 2.3 | [Randomization inference for difference-in-differences with few treated clusters](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.04.024) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-05-05 | James G. MacKinnon, Matthew D. Webb |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “statistical power”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/statistical-power

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