| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Missing data: Our view of the state of the art. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 8,854 |
| 2 | Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 8,595 |
| 3 | Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecification. | Psychological Methods | 1998 | 8,230 |
| 4 | A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 7,498 |
| 5 | Power analysis and determination of sample size for covariance structure modeling. | Psychological Methods | 1996 | 6,942 |
| 6 | Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. | Psychological Methods | 1999 | 5,890 |
| 7 | Forming inferences about some intraclass correlation coefficients. | Psychological Methods | 1996 | 5,102 |
| 8 | The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis. | Psychological Methods | 1996 | 3,627 |
| 9 | Methods for integrating moderation and mediation: A general analytical framework using moderated path analysis. | Psychological Methods | 2007 | 3,462 |
| 10 | Principles and practice in reporting structural equation analyses. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 3,316 |
| 11 | Sample size in factor analysis. | Psychological Methods | 1999 | 3,282 |
| 12 | Centering predictor variables in cross-sectional multilevel models: A new look at an old issue. | Psychological Methods | 2007 | 3,112 |
| 13 | Assessing heterogeneity in meta-analysis: Q statistic or I² index? | Psychological Methods | 2006 | 2,898 |
| 14 | A general multilevel SEM framework for assessing multilevel mediation. | Psychological Methods | 2010 | 2,586 |
| 15 | On the practice of dichotomization of quantitative variables. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 2,580 |
| 16 | A general approach to causal mediation analysis. | Psychological Methods | 2010 | 2,345 |
| 17 | Fixed- and random-effects models in meta-analysis. | Psychological Methods | 1998 | 2,238 |
| 18 | Effect size measures for mediation models: Quantitative strategies for communicating indirect effects. | Psychological Methods | 2011 | 2,154 |
| 19 | Identifying careless responses in survey data. | Psychological Methods | 2012 | 2,121 |
| 20 | An Empirical Evaluation of Alternative Methods of Estimation for Confirmatory Factor Analysis With Ordinal Data. | Psychological Methods | 2004 | 2,115 |
| 21 | Bias in cross-sectional analyses of longitudinal mediation. | Psychological Methods | 2007 | 1,972 |
| 22 | Combining effect size estimates in meta-analysis with repeated measures and independent-groups designs. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 1,925 |
| 23 | Analyzing developmental trajectories: A semiparametric, group-based approach. | Psychological Methods | 1999 | 1,884 |
| 24 | A critique of the cross-lagged panel model. | Psychological Methods | 2015 | 1,834 |
| 25 | An introduction to recursive partitioning: Rationale, application, and characteristics of classification and regression trees, bagging, and random forests. | Psychological Methods | 2009 | 1,831 |
| 26 | A comparison of inclusive and restrictive strategies in modern missing data procedures. | Psychological Methods | 2001 | 1,815 |
| 27 | When can categorical variables be treated as continuous? A comparison of robust continuous and categorical SEM estimation methods under suboptimal conditions. | Psychological Methods | 2012 | 1,531 |
| 28 | Mediation analysis allowing for exposure–mediator interactions and causal interpretation: Theoretical assumptions and implementation with SAS and SPSS macros. | Psychological Methods | 2013 | 1,505 |
| 29 | Reporting practices in confirmatory factor analysis: An overview and some recommendations. | Psychological Methods | 2009 | 1,469 |
| 30 | Meta-analysis of experiments with matched groups or repeated measures designs. | Psychological Methods | 1996 | 1,443 |
| 31 | Conceptualizing and testing random indirect effects and moderated mediation in multilevel models: New procedures and recommendations. | Psychological Methods | 2006 | 1,315 |
| 32 | On the nature and direction of relationships between constructs and measures. | Psychological Methods | 2000 | 1,271 |
| 33 | Generalized Eta and Omega Squared Statistics: Measures of Effect Size for Some Common Research Designs. | Psychological Methods | 2003 | 1,191 |
| 34 | Model selection and psychological theory: A discussion of the differences between the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). | Psychological Methods | 2012 | 1,160 |
| 35 | A tutorial on regularized partial correlation networks. | Psychological Methods | 2018 | 1,157 |
| 36 | Thanks coefficient alpha, we’ll take it from here. | Psychological Methods | 2018 | 1,132 |
| 37 | On the meaning and use of kurtosis. | Psychological Methods | 1997 | 1,085 |
| 38 | Why the items versus parcels controversy needn’t be one. | Psychological Methods | 2013 | 1,071 |
| 39 | A better lemon squeezer? Maximum-likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables. | Psychological Methods | 2006 | 1,056 |
| 40 | Bayesian structural equation modeling: A more flexible representation of substantive theory. | Psychological Methods | 2012 | 1,040 |
| 41 | Investigating population heterogeneity with factor mixture models. | Psychological Methods | 2005 | 957 |
| 42 | Propensity Score Estimation With Boosted Regression for Evaluating Causal Effects in Observational Studies. | Psychological Methods | 2004 | 953 |
| 43 | Reliability estimation in a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework. | Psychological Methods | 2014 | 921 |
| 44 | Evaluating bifactor models: Calculating and interpreting statistical indices. | Psychological Methods | 2016 | 904 |
| 45 | Null hypothesis significance testing: A review of an old and continuing controversy. | Psychological Methods | 2000 | 892 |
| 46 | Dimensionality assessment of ordered polytomous items with parallel analysis. | Psychological Methods | 2011 | 888 |
| 47 | Statistical significance testing and cumulative knowledge in psychology: Implications for training of researchers. | Psychological Methods | 1996 | 851 |
| 48 | Distributional Assumptions of Growth Mixture Models: Implications for Overextraction of Latent Trajectory Classes. | Psychological Methods | 2003 | 822 |
| 49 | Structural Equation Models of Latent Interactions: Evaluation of Alternative Estimation Strategies and Indicator Construction. | Psychological Methods | 2004 | 779 |
| 50 | Application of random-effects pattern-mixture models for missing data in longitudinal studies. | Psychological Methods | 1997 | 765 |
