https://isdsa.org/ 2026-04-14T21:29:31+0000 https://isdsa.org/ https://isdsa.org/lib/tpl/byu/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-03-14T14:46:05+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/aims?rev=1615733165&do=diff Journal of Behavioral Data Science Aims and Scope Journal of Behavioral Data Science is an international, peer-reviewed, free-to-publish, and open-access journal that aims to publish high quality, original research from researchers and practitioners in the area of data science and data analytics. Although the journal covers all the topics regarding data science, data analytics, and data analysis, we divide the journal into the following 6 categories, which are not mutually exclusive. text/html 2022-08-02T16:31:43+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/alexander_christensen?rev=1659457903&do=diff Alexander Christensen Dr. Alexander Christensen is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. His research aims to develop network science methods and software to better understand the structural building blocks of psychological phenomena in healthy and disordered populations. These methods range from network psychometrics for personality and psychopathological data to semantic network and topic analyses for text data. The core content area of his research focuses on understanding and m… text/html 2021-05-30T12:37:29+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/articles?rev=1622378249&do=diff Journal of Behavioral Data Science Recently accepted * Zhenqiu (Laura) Lu & Zhiyong Zhang (2021). Bayesian Approach to Non-ignorable Missingness in Latent Growth Models (May 30, 2021) * Zhiyong Zhang (2021). A Note on Wishart and Inverse Wishart Priors for Covariance Matrix (Apr 4, 2021) Published Volume 1 Number 1 (May 2021) Download the whole issue in PDF | Order a hard copy * Zhiyong Zhang and Danyang Zhang (2021). What is Data Science? An Operational Definition based on Text Min… text/html 2020-11-22T00:42:24+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/associateeditor?rev=1606005744&do=diff Associate Editor Instructions If an author recommends you to handle his/her paper as an associate editor, you will receive an email like the one below. By clicking the link in it, you will be taken to a webpage looking like the one below. The author should have recommended two possible guest editors. You can select one of them to handle the paper. You can also assign a new guest editor not recommended by the author. To do so, type the Member ID of the guest editor in the field of text/html 2021-03-29T12:00:59+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/christof_schuster?rev=1617019259&do=diff Christof Schuster Dr. Christof Schuster received his Ph.D. from the Technical University in Berlin. He is currently a professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. His research interests include item response theory, multivariate analysis, statistical models for response styles, and rater agreement. text/html 2023-06-21T22:30:12+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/editorial?rev=1687386612&do=diff Editorial Board Editor * Zhiyong Zhang, Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA Associate Editors * Denny Borsboom, Professor, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Hawjeng Chiou, Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan * Ick Hoon Jin, Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, Korea text/html 2021-04-01T15:21:57+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/ge_jiang?rev=1617290517&do=diff Ge Jiang Dr. Ge (Gabriella) Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Jiang's research centers around two areas: (1) structural equation modeling (SEM) and (2) statistical learning. In the area of SEM, she studies test statistics, fit indices, robust estimation methods, measurement invariance, and equivalence testing. In the area of statistical learning, she studies regularization methods (lasso, ridge, e… text/html 2020-11-21T22:37:31+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/gusteditor?rev=1605998251&do=diff Guest Editor Instructions As a guest editor, the task starts by receiving an email from the journal. A sample email is given below. To accept or reject the guest editor invitation, simply click the link in the email. If you accept the invitation, you will receive an email with the information shown below. text/html 2021-03-25T13:00:42+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/haiyan_liu?rev=1616677242&do=diff Haiyan Liu Dr. Haiyan Liu is currently an assistant professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics at the University of California, Merced. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2018. Dr. Liu’s research centers broadly on statistical modeling of psychological and behavioral data such as high-dimensional data, longitudinal data, and categorical data. Her recent research includes social network modeling, Bayesian structural equation modeling, and non-… text/html 2021-03-29T00:19:26+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/han_du?rev=1616977166&do=diff Han Du Dr. Han Du is assistant professor at UCLA. Her methodological interests have evolved along three inter-related lines: (1) Bayesian methods and statistical computing; (2) longitudinal data analysis and time series analysis; and (3) study design and sample size determination. From a substantive perspective, she am interested in applying quantitative methods in developmental, clinical, cognitive, educational, and health research. Specifically, I focus on developing and applying appropriat… text/html 2021-04-09T17:25:59+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/hawjeng_chiou?rev=1617989159&do=diff Hawjeng Chiou Dr. Choiu is a professor of the College of Management at National Taiwan Normal University. His major interest is in applied psychometrics, particularly for the applications of advanced modeling techniques, such as Structural Equation Modeling, Multilevel Linear Modeling, and Latent Class Modeling, with substantial areas such as Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Psychological Testing as well as Creativity research. Recently he is particularly interested in… text/html 2021-04-09T17:21:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/hongyun_liu?rev=1617988893&do=diff Hongyun Liu Dr. Hongyun Liu received her Ph.D. degree from the School of Psychology at Beijing Normal University. She is currently a professor in Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University and has been working on the research of quantitative psychology for more than 15 years. Her main research areas are psychological statistics, the theory and applications of psychological and educational measurement, and quantitative research methods. Her research interests involve the Internet-based… text/html 2021-03-22T13:14:52+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/ick_hoon_jin?rev=1616418892&do=diff Ick Hoon Jin Dr. Jin is an assistant professor in statistics at Yonsei University. His main research areas are network data analysis (especially, applying network model to analyze binary response data), Bayesian computation (statistical inference for models with doubly-intractable normalizing constant), and Bayesian early-phase adaptive clinical trial. text/html 2024-08-02T11:50:03+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/index?rev=1722599403&do=diff Journal of Behavioral Data Science ISSN: 2575-8306 (Print) ISSN: 2574-1284 (Online) DOI: 10.35566/jbds 2 issues per year Journal of Behavioral Data Science aims to provide a free-of-charge-to-publish and open-access journal to researchers and practitioners in the area of data science and data analytics. 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D. degree from the Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, where his supervisors are Prof. Zikun Wang ( Chinese Academician, elected in 1991 ) and Prof. Zhanbing Li. Since his graduation, he has been with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT). He had been visiting the School of Mathematics and Statistics of Carle… text/html 2021-03-20T18:12:06+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/ke-hai_yuan?rev=1616263926&do=diff Ke-Hai Yuan Ke-Hai Yuan got his Bachelor and Master Degrees from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Beijing Institute of Technology, and PhD from the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests are in the areas of psychometrics and applied multivariate statistics. He has worked on mean comparison, regression, factor analysis; structural equation modeling; repeated measures and mul… text/html 2021-04-19T21:09:27+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/laura_lu?rev=1618866567&do=diff Laura Lu Dr. Lu has been rigorously trained as a quantitative methodologist. Before she joined the Quantitative Methodologies (QM) program at the University of Georgia (UGA), she obtained a PhD on Quantitative Psychology at the University of Notre Dame (ND) and a MA on Mathematics at Temple University. The training she received has provided her a solid grounding in mathematics, statistics, programming, and quantitative methodologies. In general, she has expertise in structural equation modeli… text/html 2021-03-25T13:52:50+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/ocheredko_oleksandr?rev=1616680370&do=diff Ocheredko Oleksandr EDUCATION 2002 Doctor of Science in Public Health 1995 PHD in Public Health PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2005–present Chair of Public Health Department, Vinnitsa National Medical University 2014-present Deputy Rector on Science of Vinnitsa State Medical College text/html 2021-04-21T14:34:48+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/open?rev=1619015688&do=diff Open Access Policy All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. text/html 2021-04-21T15:04:23+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/publication_agreement?rev=1619017463&do=diff Publication Agreement By submitting the manuscript to Journal of Behavioral Data Science, the author (You) certifies that: * You are authorized by your co-authors to enter into this agreement. * All authors have made substantive contributions to the submitted work in the form of: 1) Conception and design, and/or acquisition of data; 2) Drafting the article and/or revising it critically for important intellectual content. text/html 2021-03-20T01:53:19+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/publication_ethics?rev=1616205199&do=diff Publication Ethics Journal of Behavioral Data Science adopts clear and rigorous ethical guidelines for best working practices. It follows guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct. It adheres to the principles outlined below, which have been devised to ensure accurate, trustworthy, transparent and efficient publication of scientific papers. text/html 2021-03-29T00:19:13+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/qian_zhang?rev=1616977153&do=diff Qian Zhang Dr. Qian (Jackie) Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at the Florida State University. Her research interests focus on causal inferences, longitudinal data analysis, and effect size synthesis using multilevel models and multilevel structural equation models. She is also interested in handling sub-optimal data conditions with missing data, measurement error, and/or confounding variables in statistical analyses. She collabo… text/html 2021-05-14T12:23:52+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/riet_van_bork?rev=1620995032&do=diff Riet van Bork Dr. van Bork is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science of University of Pittsburgh. Her research compares network models and latent variable models both empirically and theoretically. Psychological attributes are traditionally studied in a latent variable framework, in which the latent attribute is measured by a set of observed variables by which we assume that the measured attribute causes the shared variance between these observed variables. In contrast… text/html 2021-04-06T16:29:52+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/robert_perera?rev=1617726592&do=diff Robert Perera Dr. Robert Perera is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Biostatistics at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Additionally, he is an affiliate faculty in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering. His research interests are longitudinal data analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, and Adaptive Clinical Trial Design. He collaborates with investigators on a wide range… text/html 2021-03-22T21:05:02+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/sarfaraz_serang?rev=1616447102&do=diff Serang Sarfaraz I'm an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Utah State University, specifically within the Quantitative Psychology program. I received my Ph.D. in (quantitative) psychology from the University of Southern California, where I worked with Jack McArdle and Rand Wilcox. Prior to that, I did my undergraduate work at the University of California, Davis, where I majored in psychology and statistics. My research program involves developing and evaluating statistical met… text/html 2021-04-12T16:35:23+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/satoshi_usami?rev=1618245323&do=diff Satoshi Usami Associate professor, Ph.D. Faculty of Education/Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Japan. Satoshi Usami was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2012 from University of Tokyo. After he worked for University of Tsukuba, from 2017 he joined the Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo. His general interests are developing and applying statistical methods for behavioral science. Methodologically, his current lines of resea… text/html 2020-11-25T19:05:29+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/stepbystep?rev=1606331129&do=diff Step-by-step Paper Submission Instructions You have to be a member of ISDSA to submit a manuscript. To become a free member, click here. To submit a paper, first log into our journal system at https://isdsa.org/jbds. There are two submission portals: * Simple submission portal. You only need to provide the title and abstract of your manuscript as well as a cover letter. text/html 2021-09-02T20:13:27+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/wen_qu?rev=1630613607&do=diff Wen Qu Wen Qu got her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology at University of Notre Dame (ND). Prior to studying at ND, she received an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology specialization in Quantitative Methods at The University of Texas at Austin and a B.M. in Information Management and Information System at Beijing Forestry University. The interdisciplinary background in computer science, education, and quantitative psychology enables her to address challenges and contribute to data science methods i… text/html 2025-08-18T14:17:41+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/xin_cynthia_tong?rev=1755526661&do=diff Xin Tong Dr. Xin (Cynthia) Tong is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. Methodologically, her research is focused on Bayesian methodology, statistical computing, robust and interpretable longitudinal studies, and missing data analysis. Substantively, she is interested in longitudinal development of cognitive ability and achievement skills, healthcare analytics, and sustainability research. Her most recent research is on Bayesian quantile long… text/html 2021-03-26T14:09:55+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/zhiyong_zhang?rev=1616767795&do=diff Zhiyong Zhang Dr. Johnny Zhang is a Professor in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the director of Lab for Big Data Methodology at Notre Dame. His research aims to develop better statistical methods and software in the areas of education, health, management and psychology. He has conducted research in the areas of Bayesian methods, Big data analysis, Structural equation modeling, Longitudinal data analysis, Mediation analysis, and Statistical computing and program… text/html 2021-04-09T12:41:06+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://isdsa.org/jbds/zijun_ke?rev=1617972066&do=diff Zijun Ke Dr. Zijun Ke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Sun Yat-sen University. She earned B.S. degrees in both Psychology and Statistics from the Peking University and her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the Notre Dame University. Dr. Ke has published in leading international journals, including Structural Equation Modeling, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, and other outlets. Dr. Ke's current research interests have focused on t…