Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Statistics and Probability journal rankings 2017
131 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Statistics and Probability has 131 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2016 to 0.66, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal, and Journal of Econometrics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Mathematics (10)
131 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 4.16Q1 | 2.71 0.01 up from 2016 | 178 | 40% | $3,456 | ||
2Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.38Q1 | 3.40 0.57 down from 2016 | 185 | 30% | — | ||
3Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 2.30 0.05 up from 2016 | 476 | 41% | $4,570 | ||
4The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.68Q1 | 3.03 0.60 down from 2016 | 275 | 84% | — | ||
5BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 3.83 1.14 down from 2016 | 411 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
6Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 3.08 0.73 up from 2016 | 86 | 12% | $2,490 | ||
7Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 2.36 1.43 down from 2016 | 153 | 40% | $3,456 | ||
8The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.12 3.11 up from 2016 | 201 | 37% | — | ||
9Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.59 0.28 up from 2016 | 80 | 27% | $3,460 | ||
10Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.26Q1 | 3.70 0.37 up from 2016 | 88 | 68% | $4,090 | ||
11American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.26Q1 | 3.51 0.62 down from 2016 | 942 | 78% | $4,856 | ||
12EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.30 0.53 down from 2016 | 582 | 34% | — | ||
13Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.15 0.74 up from 2016 | 239 | 54% | — | ||
14Journal of Uncertainty Analysis and ApplicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 2.83 0.87 down from 2016 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
15The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.81 0.99 up from 2016 | 208 | 76% | $3,900 | ||
16Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.61 0.29 up from 2016 | 143 | 64% | — | ||
17Journal of Econometric MethodsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.75 0.49 up from 2016 | 33 | 20% | $2,712 | ||
18PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.40 0.15 down from 2016 | 140 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
19Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.77 0.46 up from 2016 | 50 | 33% | $4,463 | ||
20Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 1.75Q1 | 2.22 0.02 up from 2016 | 525 | 72% | — | ||
21CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems PharmacologyOANature Portfolio · United States | 1.61Q1 | 3.75 0.27 down from 2016 | 236 | 100% | $4,140 | ||
22Journal of Causal InferenceOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.60Q1 | 1.27 0.59 down from 2016 | 40 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
23Clinical TrialsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.48 0.03 up from 2016 | 245 | 62% | $4,150 | ||
24BiometrikaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.23 0.24 up from 2016 | 232 | 63% | $3,592 | ||
25Statistics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 2.17 0.71 up from 2016 | 261 | 65% | $2,890 | ||
26The Quantitative Methods for PsychologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.46Q1 | 1.72 0.18 down from 2016 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
27Statistics in MedicineWiley · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.23 0.02 up from 2016 | 984 | 55% | $5,450 | ||
28Journal of Statistical Distributions and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.44Q1 | 2.30 0.77 up from 2016 | 52 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
29Journal of Computational and Graphical StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.38Q1 | 1.59 0.18 down from 2016 | 183 | 57% | — | ||
30The Annals of Applied StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.35Q1 | 2.26 0.15 down from 2016 | 289 | 83% | — | ||
31BernoulliChapman and Hall London · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 1.54 0.09 up from 2016 | 282 | 90% | — | ||
32Statistics and Public PolicyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q1 | 1.68 0.02 up from 2016 | 33 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
33Health Services and Outcomes Research MethodologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 1.09 0.41 down from 2016 | 52 | 43% | $2,590 | ||
34International Statistical ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.21 0.83 up from 2016 | 210 | 26% | $4,880 | ||
35Statistical ModellingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.83 0.48 up from 2016 | 79 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
36BiostatisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.77 0.25 down from 2016 | 167 | 70% | $3,296 | ||
37Scandinavian Journal of StatisticsWiley · Sweden | 1.12Q2 | 1.53 0.44 up from 2016 | 209 | 33% | $3,500 | ||
38Statistical Methods in Medical ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.46 0.27 down from 2016 | 418 | 46% | $4,400 | ||
39The International Journal of BiostatisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.10Q2 | 1.52 0.71 up from 2016 | 67 | 96% | $2,712 | ||
40Computational Statistics & Data AnalysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 1.46 0.10 up from 2016 | 661 | 31% | $3,540 | ||
41BiometricsOxford University Press · United States | 1.05Q2 | 1.67 0.16 up from 2016 | 454 | 58% | $3,780 | ||
42Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 1.43 0.38 up from 2016 | 85 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
43Bayesian AnalysisOAInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.41 0.20 up from 2016 | 195 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.18 0.82 down from 2016 | 141 | 53% | $3,456 | ||
45Journal of the Egyptian Mathematical SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 0.93Q2 | 1.07 0.03 up from 2016 | 248 | 100% | $625 | ||
46Journal of Statistics and Management SystemsTaylor & Francis | 0.92Q2 | 1.08 0.92 up from 2016 | 108 | 6% | — | ||
47Pharmaceutical StatisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.23 0.09 up from 2016 | 171 | 25% | $4,880 | ||
48TestSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 1.22 0.04 up from 2016 | 169 | 28% | $3,190 | ||
49Lifetime Data AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 1.15 0.42 up from 2016 | 94 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
50Journal of Pharmacokinetics and PharmacodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 2.09 0.54 up from 2016 | 153 | 32% | $4,390 |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Statistics and Probability highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics180
- Geometry and Topology131
- Statistics and Probability131
- Mathematical Physics61
- Modeling and Simulation35
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics13
- Numerical Analysis6
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
36 additional Statistics and Probability journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 131
- Window papers (baseline)
- 28,963 +16.4% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.66 -10.7% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 60 | 64 | 67 | 67 | 73 | 77 | 80 | 80 | 83 | 90 | 93 | 96 | 99 | 104 | 113 | 121 | 128 | 131 | 135 | 134 | 136 | 136 | 135 | 133 | 135 | 139 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,904 | 12,350 | 12,684 | 12,887 | 13,190 | 13,785 | 14,596 | 15,293 | 16,580 | 18,069 | 19,531 | 20,515 | 21,699 | 22,993 | 24,889 | 26,633 | 28,066 | 28,963 | 29,227 | 29,610 | 29,771 | 31,002 | 33,254 | 34,268 | 34,088 | 33,220 | |
| Median OJR | 0.72 | 0.67 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.910 | 0.90 | 0.887 | 0.85 | 0.890 | 0.83 | 0.913 | 0.84 | 0.76 | 0.68 | 0.743 | 0.73 | 0.738 | 0.66 | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.57 | 0.60 | 0.53 | 0.50 | 0.51 | 0.56 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.