Briefing Summer 2015

Objectives
and planned actions:
 Towards an increased Impact Factor
– indexation bases to which SiTns is
already included:
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Prof. Włodzimierz Okrasa, University of Cardinal Stefan
Wyszyński, Warsaw, and CSO of Poland
EDITORIAL BOARD
Prof. Janusz Witkowski (Co-Chairman), Central
Statistical Office, Poland
Prof. Czesław Domański (Co-Chairman),
University of Łódź, Poland
•
SCOPUS *)
•
InfoBase Index (IF 3,86)
•
Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, University of Oxford,
United Kingdom
IC Journals Master List
Prof. Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, USA
•
BazEkon
•
CEJSH
•
ERIH PLUS
 To increase the number of points
from the Index Copernicus (6,53) and
on the List of the Ministry of Science
and Higher Education
 Finalization of the application
process for being included into the
RePEc base (Autumn 2015)
 Continued efforts to broader the
number of international indexation
bases which involve SiTns – such as:
- CEEOL / Central and Eastern
European Online Library
Prof. Graham Kalton, WESTAT, and University of
Maryland, USA
Prof. Mirosław Krzyśko, Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań, Poland
Prof. Janusz L. Wywiał, University of Economics
in Katowice, Poland
Founder/Former Editor:
Prof. Jan Kordos, Central Statistical Office,
Poland
Current affairs:
CONTACT:
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Prof. Włodzimierz Okrasa: [email protected]
Phone number +48 22 608 30 66
EDITORIAL OFFICE
Marek Cierpiał-Wolan, PhD.: [email protected]
Beata Witek, [email protected]
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wide interest. An interesting feature is the
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an editor. This will be seen by readers as
evidence of close editorial scrutiny and
enhance the credibility of the journal,
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the final evaluation report of the SCOPUS'
Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)
Briefing _ Summer 2015
Phone number +48 22 608 33 66
Address for correspondence:
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ISSN 1234-7655
 Special issues

Early view
 Editorial
 Towards (increased)
Impact Factors

indexation bases
 SiTns webpage
Things under way
 Editorial:
• Template for Authors
(WORD & LaTeX)
• Separation/citation of individual
articles (since Vol. 15_1 2014)
• Updating the journal`s cover
 The next Special Issue:
Confidentiality in the Era of Big Data
 Continued efforts to publish
hybrid-issues
(including conference-based and
research review papers)
 The possibility of organizing a
conference based on Special Issue
- jointly with PTS
 Further develop / improvement of
SiTns webpage:
http://stat.gov.pl/en/sit-en/
 Appling for evaluation / filling-in
questionnaires to:
• IC Journals Master List
(by June 30)
• Ministry of Science and Higher
Education (by July 15)
EARLY VIEW
Vol. 16 No 1 Spring 2015
Selected papers:
Joint Calibration Estimator for dual frame
surveys , Mahmoud A. Elkasabi, Steven G.
Heeringa, James M. Lepkowski
Policy-oriented inference and the analyst-client
cooperation. An example from small-area
statistics
Nicholas T. Longford
Classification problems based on regression
models for multi-dimensional functional data
Tomasz Górecki, Mirosław Krzyśko, Waldemar
Wołyński
http://stat.gov.pl/en/sit-en/early-view-forthcoming-articles/
Special issue 1:
Subjective well-being
Guest Editors: Graham Kalton and
Christopher Mackie
Authors:
• Christopher Mackie, Conal Smith
• Lucy Tinkler
• Paul Allin
• Zhanjun Xing , Xiaxia Qu
• Marco Fattore, Filomena Maggino and
Alberto Arcagni
• Dylan M. Smith
• Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Adam Noga,
Katarzyna Piotrowska, Krzysztof Zagórski
• Janusz Czapiński, Włodzimierz Okrasa
http://stat.gov.pl/en/sit-en/early-view--specialissue/
EARLY VIEW – cont.
http://stat.gov.pl/en/sit-en/early-view-saepoznan-2014/
Special issue 2:
SAE –Poznan 2014
Co-Editors:
Mike Hidiroglou, Statistics Canada
Wlodzimierz Okrasa, CSO, Poland
Guest Editors:
Raymond Chambers, Univ. of Wollongong, AU
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, USA
Graham Kalton, Westat, USA
Risto Lehtonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Papers accepted:
•Jan Pablo Burgard, Ralf Münnich - SAE teaching using simulations
•Elżbieta Gołata - SAE Education Challenges to Academics and NSI
•Adrijo Chakraborty, Gauri Sankar Datta and Abhyuday Mandal,- A
two-component normal mixture alternative to the Fay-Herriot model
•Wayne Fuller, Andreea Erciulescu - Small Area Prediction under
Alternative Model Specifications
•J.N.K. Rao - Inferential issues in model-based small area estimation:
some new developments
•Daniel Bonn ery, Yang Cheng, Neung Soo Ha, Partha Lahiri - Triplegoal estimation of unemployment rates for U.S. states using the U.S.
Current Population Survey data
•Jan van den Brakel and Bart Buelens - Covariate selection for small
area estimation in repeated sample surveys
• Forough Karlberg - Small Area Prediction for Skewed Data in the
Presence of Zeroes
•Carolina Franco, William R. Bell - Alternative Approaches to Borrowing
Information Over Time in Small Area Estimation with Application to Data
from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
•Maria Guadarrama, Isabel Molina and J. N. K. Rao - A Comparison of
Small Area Estimation Methods for Poverty Mapping
•Jay Breidt, Daniel Hernandez-Stumpfhauser, Jean D. Opsomer Variational Approximations for Selecting Hierarchical Models of Circular
Data in a Small Area Estimation Application
•Jan Kordos - Development of Small Area Estimation in Official Statistics
•M.A. Hidiroglou, Victor Estevao - A comparison of small area and
traditional estimators via simulation