James Robert Wagner
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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BIO
Dr. Wagner is a survey statistician. His research is in the areas of responsive or adaptive design, nonresponse bias, and data quality measures. He also develops and implements responsive design plans on large surveys.
- Yajuan Si, James Robert Wagner, Ronald C. Kessler. 2026. Probability, Probability-Based, and Nonprobability Surveys in Psychiatric Epidemiological Research. JAMA Psychiatry 83(3):298-305.
- Borowski, Shelby, Edwards, Emily R., Geraci, Joseph C., Gildea, Sarah M., Hwang, Irving, Kennedy, Chris J., Liu, Howard, Luedtke, Alex, Sampson, Nancy A., Benedek, David M., Capaldi, Vincent F., Naifeh, James A., Nock, Matthew K., James Robert Wagner, Stein, Murray B., Ursano, Robert J., Kessler, Ronald C.. 2026. Joint models targeting U.S. Army soldiers at high-risk of post-separation unemployment, homelessness, and suicide-related behaviors. npj Mental Health Research 5(1):10.
- Katherine A. Koh, Jenny D'Olympia, Dina Hooshyar, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Sara Garde, Zachary Ginsburg, Kelly Ré, Michaela Spaulding, James A. Naifeh, Matthew K. Nock, James Robert Wagner, Robert J. Ursano, Jack Tsai. 2026. Pathways into homelessness and perspectives on prevention: A qualitative study of army veterans. PLOS ONE 21(3):e0342060.
- Donovan Maust, James Robert Wagner, Sheryl Zimmerman, Laura M. Wagner, Steven C. Marcus, Elizabeth M. White, Rachel S. Tocco, Joanie Rothstein, Johanna van Tyen Silbersack Hickey, Amy R. Pettit, Joanne Spetz. 2025. The National Dementia Workforce Study: Overview. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- James Robert Wagner, Laura M. Wagner, Sheryl Zimmerman, Johanna van Tyen Silbersack Hickey, Kate Stewart, Sandi Nelson, Ji Qi, Raphael Nishimura, Piotr Dworak, Margaret Hudson, Jennifer Kelley, Heidi Guyer, Amy R. Pettit, Donovan Maust, Joanne Spetz. 2025. The National Dementia Workforce Study: The Plan for Organization Sample Frames and Data Collection. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Xinyu Zhang, James Robert Wagner, Michael R Elliott, Brady Thomas West, Stephanie Coffey. 2025. A Multivariate Stopping Rule for Survey Data Collection: Empirical Evaluation from a Panel Study. Journal of Official Statistics 41(1):468-494.
- Kessler, Ronald C., Millikan-Bell, Amy M., Edwards, Emily R., Gildea, Sarah M., King, Andrew J., Liu, Howard, Petukhova, Maria V., Sampson, Nancy A., Ziobrowski, Hannah N., James Robert Wagner, Stein, Murray B., Ursano, Robert J.. 2025. Effects of pandemic-related stressors on anxiety and mood difficulty during versus before the COVID-19 pandemic in US Army soldiers and veterans. Nature Mental Health 3(10):1191-1201.
- Houtsma, Claire, Kennedy, Chris J., Liu, Howard, Edwards, Emily R., Sampson, Nancy A., Geraci, Joe C., Marx, Brian P., Nock, Matthew K., James Robert Wagner, Stein, Murray B., Ursano, Robert J., Kessler, Ronald C.. 2025. Predicting firearm suicide among US Army veterans transitioning from active service. Nature Mental Health 4(1):125-135.
- Ronald C. Kessler, Robert M. Bossarte, Irving Hwang, Alex Luedtke, James A. Naifeh, Matthew K. Nock, Maria Petukhova, Ekaterina Sadikova, Nancy A. Sampson, Erik Sverdrup, Jose R. Zubizarreta, Stefan Wager, James Robert Wagner, Murray B. Stein, Robert J. Ursano. 2024. A prediction model for differential resilience to the effects of combat‐related stressors in US army soldiers. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 33(4):e70006.
- Brady Thomas West, Mick P Couper, William G Axinn, James Robert Wagner, Rebecca Gatward, Saw, Htay-Wah, Shiyu Zhang. 2024. Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research. Demography 61(6):1759–1791.
