| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests | Psychometrika | 1951 | 29,707 |
| 2 | An index of factorial simplicity | Psychometrika | 1974 | 8,510 |
| 3 | A rationale and test for the number of factors in factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1965 | 6,088 |
| 4 | Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis | Psychometrika | 1964 | 6,067 |
| 5 | The varimax criterion for analytic rotation in factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1958 | 5,814 |
| 6 | A reliability coefficient for maximum likelihood factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1973 | 5,505 |
| 7 | Factor analysis and AIC | Psychometrika | 1987 | 4,527 |
| 8 | On methods in the analysis of profile data | Psychometrika | 1959 | 4,320 |
| 9 | A scaled difference chi-square test statistic for moment structure analysis | Psychometrika | 2001 | 4,292 |
| 10 | Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: A numerical method | Psychometrika | 1964 | 4,146 |
| 11 | Hierarchical clustering schemes | Psychometrika | 1967 | 3,994 |
| 12 | Analysis of individual differences in multidimensional scaling via an n-way generalization of “Eckart-Young” decomposition | Psychometrika | 1970 | 3,935 |
| 13 | Measurement invariance, factor analysis and factorial invariance | Psychometrika | 1993 | 3,371 |
| 14 | Model selection and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC): The general theory and its analytical extensions | Psychometrika | 1987 | 3,358 |
| 15 | Note on the sampling error of the difference between correlated proportions or percentages | Psychometrika | 1947 | 3,182 |
| 16 | A second generation little jiffy | Psychometrika | 1970 | 3,106 |
| 17 | An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set | Psychometrika | 1985 | 3,011 |
| 18 | Some mathematical notes on three-mode factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1966 | 3,003 |
| 19 | The approximation of one matrix by another of lower rank | Psychometrika | 1936 | 2,832 |
| 20 | A new status index derived from sociometric analysis | Psychometrika | 1953 | 2,744 |
| 21 | A rasch model for partial credit scoring | Psychometrika | 1982 | 2,676 |
| 22 | Generalized procrustes analysis | Psychometrika | 1975 | 2,557 |
| 23 | A rating formulation for ordered response categories | Psychometrika | 1978 | 2,241 |
| 24 | The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. I. | Psychometrika | 1962 | 2,140 |
| 25 | A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1969 | 1,936 |
| 26 | Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters: Application of an EM algorithm | Psychometrika | 1981 | 1,912 |
| 27 | Application of model-selection criteria to some problems in multivariate analysis | Psychometrika | 1987 | 1,863 |
| 28 | On the Use, the Misuse, and the Very Limited Usefulness of Cronbach’s Alpha | Psychometrika | 2009 | 1,860 |
| 29 | The centrality index of a graph | Psychometrika | 1966 | 1,798 |
| 30 | Determining the number of components from the matrix of partial correlations | Psychometrika | 1976 | 1,782 |
| 31 | Multidimensional scaling: I. Theory and method | Psychometrika | 1952 | 1,701 |
| 32 | A general structural equation model with dichotomous, ordered categorical, and continuous latent variable indicators | Psychometrika | 1984 | 1,597 |
| 33 | Simultaneous factor analysis in several populations | Psychometrika | 1971 | 1,542 |
| 34 | A generalized solution of the orthogonal procrustes problem | Psychometrika | 1966 | 1,475 |
| 35 | The theory of the estimation of test reliability | Psychometrika | 1937 | 1,454 |
| 36 | Statistical analysis of sets of congeneric tests | Psychometrika | 1971 | 1,429 |
| 37 | Ensuring Positiveness of the Scaled Difference Chi-square Test Statistic | Psychometrika | 2010 | 1,410 |
| 38 | The effect of sampling error on convergence, improper solutions, and goodness-of-fit indices for maximum likelihood confirmatory factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1984 | 1,291 |
| 39 | Some necessary conditions for common-factor analysis | Psychometrika | 1954 | 1,285 |
| 40 | Latent curve analysis | Psychometrika | 1990 | 1,264 |
| 41 | A general nonmetric technique for finding the smallest coordinate space for a configuration of points | Psychometrika | 1968 | 1,248 |
| 42 | Estimation of latent ability using a response pattern of graded scores | Psychometrika | 1969 | 1,239 |
| 43 | Who belongs in the family? | Psychometrika | 1953 | 1,222 |
| 44 | The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. II | Psychometrika | 1962 | 1,166 |
| 45 | Coefficients Alpha, Beta, Omega, and the glb: Comments on Sijtsma | Psychometrika | 2009 | 1,101 |
| 46 | Cronbach’s α, Revelle’s β, and Mcdonald’s ωH: their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability | Psychometrika | 2005 | 1,030 |
| 47 | Maximum likelihood estimation of latent interaction effects with the LMS method | Psychometrika | 2000 | 1,017 |
| 48 | An examination of the effect of six types of error perturbation on fifteen clustering algorithms | Psychometrika | 1980 | 976 |
| 49 | OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework | Psychometrika | 2011 | 976 |
| 50 | Logit models and logistic regressions for social networks: I. An introduction to Markov graphs andp | Psychometrika | 1996 | 964 |
