A La Trobe University academic has been acknowledged for the long-term impact of his research.
Emeritus Professor Geoff Cumming received a 10 Year Impact Award from American academic publisher Sage.
This year’s award honoured the three most-cited articles published in 2013 in any of the more than 400 journals Sage has been publishing since 2013.
Professor Cumming’s paper, The New Statistics: Why and How, was published in one of the world’s top empirical journals in psychology, Psychological Science. It was one of the three papers released in a Sage journal in 2013 that received most citations over the past decade .
“I am honoured to be acknowledged by Sage and I am delighted that my paper is still a source of valued information for my peers, more than a decade on from its release.” Professor Cumming said.
“Open Science is a set of research practices designed to increase the reliability of published results. Psychological Science introduced Open Science requirements from January 2014. My article was a guide for researchers adopting the statistical approach strongly recommended by the journal. Happily, Open Science has been advancing in many fields of science and medicine over this last decade.”
President of global publishing at Sage, Ziyad Marar, said the impact of academic research often extended beyond the standard two-year citation window.
"These awards extend that period to ten years, recognizing work with a deep and lasting impact," Mr Marar said.
Professor Cumming is retired but continues to write for his online blog and has created a series of statistics textbooks. The most recent is the second edition of Introduction to The New Statistics, published by Routledge.
This is the first introductory statistics textbook to integrate Open Science principles all through. Chapter 1 is a simple outline of the book’s approach and is available by clicking ‘Read sample’ here.
Sage Publishing is an academic publisher founded in New York City in 1965 with a focus on social sciences.
