Peer reviewed publications
- Calderón, J. A., Rodríguez, N., & Cervantes, V. H. (2026). Using DIF analysis in the equating of large-scale assessments. Large-scale Assessments in Education, 14, 23.
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Kujala, J. V., & Cervantes, V. H. (2026). Contextuality in Random Variables: A Systematic Introduction.
- Camillo, G. & Cervantes, V. H. (2024). Measures of contextuality in cyclic systems and the negative probabilities measure CNT3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 382, 20230007.
- Bogdan, P., Cervantes, V. H., & Regenwetter, M. (2023). What does a population-level mediation reveal about individual people?. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 5667-5692.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2023). Hypercyclic systems of measurements. European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 232, 3355-3358.
- Cervantes, V. H. (2023). A note on the relation between the Contextual Fraction and CNT2. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 112, 102726.
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Kujala, J. V., & Cervantes, V. H. (2021). Epistemic odds of contextuality in cyclic systems. The European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 230, 937-940.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2020). Contextuality analysis of impossible figures. Entropy, 22(9), 981.
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Kujala, J. V., & Cervantes, V. H. (2020). Contextuality and Noncontextuality Measures and Generalized Bell Inequalities for Cyclic Systems. Physical Review A, 101(4) 042119. (Erratum note 1, Erratum note 2)
- Basieva, I., Cervantes, V. H., Dzhafarov, E. N., & Khrennikov, A. (2019). True Contextuality Beats Direct Influences in Human Decision Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(11), 1925-1937.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2019). True contextuality in a psychophysical experiment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 91, 119-127.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2018). Snow Queen is evil and beautiful: Experimental evidence for probabilistic contextuality in human choices. Decision, 5(3), 193-204.
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Cervantes, V. H., & Kujala, J. V. (2017). Contextuality in canonical systems of random variables. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 375, 20160389.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2017). Advanced analysis of quantum contextuality in a psychophysical double-detection experiment. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 79, 77-84.
- Cervantes, V. H. & Dzhafarov, E. N. (2017). Exploration of contextuality in a psychophysical double-detection (pp. 182–193). In: de Barros J., Coecke B., Pothos E. (Eds.) Quantum Interaction. LNCS, (Vol. 10106).
- Cervantes, V. H. (2017). DFIT: An R package for Raju’s Differential Functioning of Items and Tests Framework. Journal of Statistical Software, 76(5), 1–24.
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Kujala, J. V., & Cervantes, V. H. (2016). Contextuality-by-default: a brief overview of ideas, concepts, and terminology (pp. 12-23). In: Atmanspacher, H., Filk, T., Pothos, E. (Eds.) Quantum Interaction. LNCS, (Vol. 9535).
- Dzhafarov, E. N., Kujala, J. V., Cervantes, V. H., Zhang, R., & Jones, M. (2016). On contextuality in behavioral data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 374, 20150234.
- Cervantes, V. H., Cepeda, E. & Corrales, M. (2014). Acoso en el ambiente escolar: Análisis de un cuestionario mediante Teoría de Respuesta al Ítem y Análisis de Correspondencias Múltiples [Analysis of a school bullying questionnaire using Item Response Theory and Multiple Correspondence Analysis]. Universitas Psychologica, 13(2), 443–456.
- Cuevas, M. & Cervantes, V. H. (2012). Differential item functioning detection with logistic regression. Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines / Mathematics and Social Sciences, 50(199), 45–59.
- Cervantes, V. H., Santana, A. C., Gómez Benito, J. & Guilera, G. (2009). Hierarchical linear models in psychiatry: A bibliometric study. Scientometrics, 80(3), 797–808.
- Cepeda, E. & Cervantes, V. H. (2009). Regresión latente en modelos de respuesta al ítem logísticos de tres parámetros [Latent regression in three parameter logistic item response models]. Matemática, 7, 13–20.
- Cepeda, E., Aguilar, W., Cervantes, V. H., Corrales, M., Díaz, I. & Rodríguez, D. (2008). Intervalos de confianza e intervalos de credibilidad para una proporción [Confidence and credibility intervals for one proportion]. Revista Colombiana de Estadística, 31(2), 211–228.
- Cervantes, V. H., Cepeda, E. & Camargo, S. (2008). Una propuesta para la obtención de niveles de desempeño en los modelos de Teoría de Respuesta al Ítem [A proposal for setting achievement levels with item response models]. Avances en Medición, 6(1), 49–58.
- Cervantes, V. H. (2005). Interpretaciones del coeficiente alpha de Cronbach [Interpretations of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient]. Avances en Medición, 3(1), 9–28.








