British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology is a British title devoted to quantitative method in psychology, owned by the British Psychological Society and published by Wiley. Its pages carry mathematical models of mental processes beside papers on statistical procedure and measurement, and its volume numbering runs from 1948. The 2025 impact factor is 1.9, with a five-year value of 2.7.《英国数学与统计心理学杂志》是一份专注心理学定量方法的英国期刊，归英国心理学会所有，由 Wiley 出版。其版面既载心理过程的数学模型，也载统计程序与测量方面的论文，卷号自 1948 年起算。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.7。

Scope

• Quantitative methodology in psychology and in the fields that borrow its data is the subject, and a paper is judged on the advance it offers to method rather than to one data set.心理学及其借用人类数据的邻近学科的定量方法学是主题，论文的评价着眼于它对方法的推进，而非对某一数据集的推进。

• A submission is read for the weight of its mathematical or statistical argument, the journal asking for more of that weight than a general psychology title would accept.来稿按其数学或统计论证的分量被阅读，该刊所要求的分量高于一份普通心理学期刊所能接受的程度。

• Named fields include mathematical psychology, statistics, psychometrics, decision making, psychophysics, classification, and adjacent parts of mathematics, computing and software.列名的方向有数学心理学，统计学，心理测量学，决策，心理物理学，分类，以及数学，计算与软件的邻近部分。

• Mathematical psychology keeps a central place, so a formal model of perception, memory or choice is read seriously when it is tested against observations.数学心理学居中枢位置，针对知觉，记忆与抉择的形式模型在用观察数据检验之后会被认真对待。

• Statistical method is developed and then evaluated, including new estimators, model diagnostics and the behaviour of a procedure under simulation.统计方法先被提出再被评估，内容包括新估计量，模型诊断以及一个程序在模拟之下的表现。

• Latent structure is a recurring object of work, with structural equation models, item response models and mixture classes all drawn into the journal.潜变量结构是反复出现的研究对象，结构方程模型，项目反应模型与混合类别均被纳入该刊。

• Measurement across groups and across occasions is taken seriously, so work on invariance, on differential item functioning and on the comparability of scales finds a home.跨群体与跨场合的测量受到重视，因此不变性，项目功能差异与量表可比性方面的工作在该刊有其位置。

• Longitudinal and multilevel designs require models that respect their dependence, and the construction of such models belongs to the programme.纵向与多层设计需要尊重其相关结构的模型，此类模型的构建属于该刊的内容范围。

• Missing data, attrition and the analysis of incomplete records are treated as methodological problems in their own right.缺失数据，失访以及不完整记录的分析与处理被视作独立的方法学问题。

• Bayesian and likelihood based inference both appear, together with questions about the choice of a prior and about how one model is compared with its rivals.贝叶斯推断与似然推断都会出现，连同先验的选取以及一个模型如何与其竞争模型比较的问题。

• Model selection and the assessment of fit are studied, because a good fit is claimed far more often than it is demonstrated.模型选择与拟合度评估受到研究，因为拟合良好的宣称远多于它被真正证明的次数。

• Behaviour at realistic sample sizes matters to a readership that analyses human data, so work on power and on the size of a test has a place.在现实样本量下的表现对处理人类数据的读者群体至关重要，因此检验功效与显著性水准方面的工作有其位置。

• Categorical and count data draw models of their own, and the ordinal scale that psychologists use so often is one of the recurring objects.类别数据与计数数据引出各自的模型，心理学常用的顺序量表是反复出现的对象之一。

• Individual differences in parameters rather than in mean scores alone are modelled, so a distribution of ability or of speed may be estimated directly.被建模的是参数的个体差异而非仅有平均分的差异，因此能力或速度的分布可以被直接估计。

• An improved algorithm for estimating the parameters of a model, or a critique of a model already in use, is a favoured form of contribution.估计模型参数的改良算法，或对既有模型的批评，都是该刊所青睐的贡献形式。

• Computational work that simulates a proposed procedure is welcome, since a method should be shown to behave as claimed before it is recommended to others.对所提程序做模拟的计算工作受到欢迎，因为方法在向他人推荐之前应先显示其表现与宣称一致。

• An application is read as a method paper when the application itself explains why the method works, and a single psychological data set may carry that weight.若应用本身说清了方法为何奏效，应用类论文便按方法论文阅读，一个心理学数据集足以承担这一分量。

History

• The run of volumes is unbroken, since number 19 falls in 1966, number 47 in 1994 and number 52 in 1999.卷号序列从未中断，第 19 卷落在 1966 年，第 47 卷在 1994 年，第 52 卷在 1999 年。

• Publication began in 1948 under the title British Journal of Statistical Psychology, a title of the British Psychological Society, and the present name was taken in 1965.1948 年该刊以 British Journal of Statistical Psychology 之名开始出版，属英国心理学会，现名始于 1965 年。

• The catalogue of the National Library of Medicine dates the present title from 1965 and puts the earliest printing in London.美国国家医学图书馆目录把现名定于 1965 年，并把早期印制地记为伦敦。

• MEDLINE indexing opens with volume 19, number 1, of May 1966, an entry point that still presupposes eighteen earlier volumes.MEDLINE 的收录自 1966 年 5 月的第 19 卷第 1 期起，这一节点已预设此前十八卷的存在。

• Imprints listed in the catalogue move from London, where the Society issued the journal, to Chichester, where Wiley-Blackwell has printed it since 2012.目录所载出版地由学会自行发行的伦敦改为 Chichester，Wiley-Blackwell 自 2012 年起在此印制该刊。

• Passing to a commercial house put the title inside a large distribution platform, while ownership by the Society never moved.转交商业出版机构使该刊进入规模庞大的发行平台，学会的所有权则始终未变。

• Cadence settled at three numbers a year in 2009, the rhythm the title has kept since.刊期在 2009 年定为每年三期，此后该刊沿用这一节奏。

• The electronic edition is registered under ISSN 2044-8317, a number listed separately from the print ISSN 0007-1102.电子版登记号为 ISSN 2044-8317，与印刷版号 0007-1102 分列两处。

• Two citation editions cover the title, the science series and the social science series, a pairing rarely given to a journal of method.两个引文版别均收录该刊，即科学版与社会科学版，方法学刊物得此双重覆盖并不多见。

• Four JCR categories are assigned to it, among them STATISTICS & PROBABILITY, where the 2025 edition puts the journal in Q1.JCR 为其分配四个类目，其中包括统计与概率，2025 年版将该刊置于该类目 Q1 区。

• Citation counts in the 2025 edition give 3110 citations over 39 published items, with a journal citation indicator of 0.7.2025 年版的计量为 39 篇文献获 3110 次引用，期刊引文指标为 0.7。

• A cited half-life of 15.3 years shows how long a methodical paper stays in use among its readers, and roughly 54 per cent of that year's items were free to read from publication.被引半衰期 15.3 年，说明一篇方法学论文在读者中的引用寿命颇长，该年版约百分之五十四的文献自出版起即可免费阅读。

• The society itself reported the rise of the journal to an impact factor of 1.9 when the 2025 citation figures appeared.2025 年引文数据公布时，学会自身报告了该刊影响因子升至 1.9 的结果。

Editors

• The editorship was taken up at the start of 2024 by (Sun-Joo Cho), the appointment announced by the society that owns the journal.主编一职在 2024 年初由（Sun-Joo Cho）接任，任命出自拥有该刊的学会。

• She holds a post in quantitative methods at Vanderbilt University, within Peabody College, and her own work is in psychometric modelling.她在范德堡大学 Peabody 学院任定量方法教职，本人的研究在心理测量建模。

• Her appointment followed the term of (Alison Cheng), who had edited the journal from 2019 and was thanked by the Society for the growth of the title during her years in the chair.她的任命接续（Alison Cheng）的任期，后者自 2019 年起主编该刊，学会就其在任时刊物的成长致谢。

• The editor works with associate editors whose competence is divided across mathematical psychology, psychometric theory and statistical method.主编与若干副编辑共事，副编辑的专长分属数学心理学，心理测量理论与统计方法。

• Board membership is international, with colleagues from Britain, the United States, mainland Europe and Australasia among those listed.编委会成员具有国际性，名单中包括来自英国，美国，欧陆与澳新的学者。

• Manuscripts reach the editorial office through the electronic submission system run for the journal under the code bjmsp.稿件经以（bjmsp）为代号的电子投稿系统送达编辑部。

• Referees are chosen for their knowledge of the method at issue, so a paper on a new estimator is read by someone who has worked with such an estimator.评审人按其对论文所涉方法的了解挑选，因此一篇关于新估计量的论文由处理过同类估计量的研究者阅读。

• The decision on a paper rests with the editing team, which reads the reports against the methodological claim the author puts forward.论文的去留由编辑团队决定，他们会把评审意见与作者提出的方法学主张一并考量。

• A submission is expected to make its contribution to method explicit, because a study that only applies a known model to fresh data has little room here.来稿需要讲明它对方法的贡献，仅把已知模型用于新数据的研究在该刊难有位置。

• Software and data that carry an analysis are examined together with the paper, so that a reader may repeat what is reported.支撑分析的软件与数据随论文一并检视，以便读者复现文中结果。

• Pages are set aside for the review of books and of statistical software, a section long present in the journal's table of contents.版面另设书评与统计软件评介，此类栏目在该刊目录中早已存在。

• The journal publishes in English, and a paper is written for readers who work with observed behaviour rather than for a mathematics department alone.该刊以英文出版，论文的写作对象是研究可观察行为的读者，而非仅限于数学系。

• Correspondence about a paper is handled through the journal office of the publisher, which also keeps the production schedule of three numbers a year.有关论文的通信经由出版商的期刊办公室处理，该办公室同时维持每年三期的出版进度。

• With about 39 items published in a year, the list of papers is short enough for a reader to work through a whole volume.该刊一年刊出约 39 篇文献，篇目少到一名读者可以通读整卷。