Structural Equation Modeling is a peer-reviewed scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 publishing methodological and applied papers on structural equation modeling

Structural equation modeling

Structural equation modeling is a statistical technique for testing and estimating causal relations using a combination of statistical data and qualitative causal assumptions...

, a blend of multivariate statistical methods

Multivariate statistics

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 from factor analysis

Factor analysis

Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved, uncorrelated variables called factors. In other words, it is possible, for example, that variations in three or four observed variables...

 to systems of regression equations, with applications across a broad spectrum of social sciences

Social sciences

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 as well as biology

Biology

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. One of the founders and the current editor-in-chief of the journal is George Marcoulides (University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside

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). According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 3.153, ranking it 2nd out of 38 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods" and 4th out of 80 in the category "Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications".