Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Statistics and Probability journal rankings 2018
135 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Statistics and Probability has 135 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, The American Statistician, and Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
135 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.93Q1 | 2.85 0.70 up from 2017 | 205 | 55% | — | ||
2The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.90Q1 | 5.11 1.00 up from 2017 | 236 | 31% | — | ||
3Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 4.60 1.52 up from 2017 | 81 | 0% | $2,490 | ||
4Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.58 0.13 down from 2017 | 222 | 34% | $3,456 | ||
5Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.39Q1 | 2.10 0.20 down from 2017 | 448 | 39% | $4,570 | ||
6Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 3.31 0.95 up from 2017 | 138 | 48% | $3,456 | ||
7The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.08 0.73 down from 2017 | 221 | 98% | $3,900 | ||
8Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.28Q1 | 3.13 0.27 down from 2017 | 186 | 36% | — | ||
9American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.19Q1 | 4.18 0.68 up from 2017 | 963 | 74% | $4,856 | ||
10The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.80 0.24 down from 2017 | 264 | 89% | — | ||
11Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.49 0.12 down from 2017 | 130 | 86% | — | ||
12Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.10Q1 | 3.24 0.46 down from 2017 | 97 | 67% | $4,090 | ||
13BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.61 0.22 down from 2017 | 444 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
14Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 1.99Q1 | 3.19 0.97 up from 2017 | 505 | 72% | — | ||
15EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.87Q1 | 3.10 0.20 down from 2017 | 577 | 46% | — | ||
16PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.80Q1 | 2.10 0.30 down from 2017 | 145 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
17Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.07 0.30 up from 2017 | 59 | 44% | $4,463 | ||
18International Statistical ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 2.82 0.62 up from 2017 | 128 | 35% | $4,880 | ||
19Statistics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 2.97 0.80 up from 2017 | 238 | 78% | $2,890 | ||
20The Quantitative Methods for PsychologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.65Q1 | 2.59 0.87 up from 2017 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
21Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 1.64Q1 | 1.40 1.19 down from 2017 | 62 | 37% | $3,460 | ||
22CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems PharmacologyOANature Portfolio · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.46 0.29 down from 2017 | 258 | 100% | $4,140 | ||
23Health Services and Outcomes Research MethodologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 2.36 1.27 up from 2017 | 40 | 17% | $2,590 | ||
24Journal of Computational and Graphical StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.51Q1 | 2.24 0.65 up from 2017 | 203 | 57% | — | ||
25BiometrikaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 1.90 0.33 down from 2017 | 235 | 70% | $3,592 | ||
26Statistics and Public PolicyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 0.88 0.80 down from 2017 | 39 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
27The Annals of Applied StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.43Q1 | 2.14 0.12 down from 2017 | 283 | 92% | — | ||
28Statistics in MedicineWiley · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.80 0.44 down from 2017 | 1,006 | 51% | $5,450 | ||
29Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 0.97 0.46 down from 2017 | 100 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
30Journal of Causal InferenceOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.24Q1 | 1.92 0.65 up from 2017 | 36 | 86% | $1,187 | ||
31Clinical TrialsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.39 0.09 down from 2017 | 247 | 64% | $4,150 | ||
32BernoulliChapman and Hall London · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.42 0.12 down from 2017 | 347 | 94% | — | ||
33Journal of Statistical Distributions and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 0.95 1.35 down from 2017 | 56 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
34Journal of Numerical CognitionOAPsychOpen · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 1.62 0.15 up from 2017 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
35Statistical Methods in Medical ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.60 0.13 up from 2017 | 466 | 46% | $4,400 | ||
36Journal of Uncertainty Analysis and ApplicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 0.95 1.88 down from 2017 | 37 | — | — | ||
37Statistical ModellingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.14 0.69 down from 2017 | 70 | 67% | $3,650 | ||
38The International Journal of BiostatisticsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 2.25 0.73 up from 2017 | 73 | 76% | $2,712 | ||
39American Journal of Theoretical and Applied StatisticsOAScience Publishing Group · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.32 1.56 up from 2017 | 200 | 100% | — | ||
40BiostatisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.96 0.19 up from 2017 | 186 | 80% | $3,296 | ||
41Journal of Pharmacokinetics and PharmacodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 2.69 0.60 up from 2017 | 165 | 54% | $4,390 | ||
42Econometrics and StatisticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 1.28 0.49 up from 2017 | 82 | 38% | $2,140 | ||
43Communications in Mathematics and StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.04Q2 | 1.04 0.29 up from 2017 | 71 | 12% | $3,090 | ||
44Journal of Statistics and Management SystemsTaylor & Francis | 1.02Q2 | 1.62 0.54 up from 2017 | 154 | 6% | — | ||
45Computational Statistics & Data AnalysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 1.39 0.07 down from 2017 | 523 | 46% | $3,540 | ||
46BiometricsOxford University Press · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.71 0.05 up from 2017 | 508 | 48% | $3,780 | ||
47Bayesian AnalysisOAInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.26 0.15 down from 2017 | 190 | 100% | — | ||
48MethodologyOAGermany | 0.93Q2 | 1.21 0.47 up from 2017 | 46 | 32% | — | ||
49Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 1.64 0.46 up from 2017 | 143 | 61% | $3,456 | ||
50Scandinavian Journal of StatisticsWiley · Sweden | 0.91Q2 | 1.13 0.40 down from 2017 | 175 | 44% | $3,500 |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Statistics and Probability highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics178
- Statistics and Probability135
- Geometry and Topology133
- Mathematical Physics60
- Modeling and Simulation36
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics13
- Numerical Analysis6
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 additional Statistics and Probability journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 135
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,227 +9.7% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.62 -14.9% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.