Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty journal rankings 2021
42 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty has 42 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2020 to 0.85, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Research Integrity and Peer Review, Quantitative Science Studies, and Research Synthesis Methods.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Decision Sciences (4)
42 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Research Integrity and Peer ReviewOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 9.42 4.71 up from 2020 | 55 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
2Quantitative Science StudiesOAThe MIT Press · United States | 2.87Q1 | 6.60 3.83 up from 2020 | 94 | 100% | $800 | ||
3Research Synthesis MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 10.49 4.28 up from 2020 | 170 | 69% | $3,020 | ||
4Reliability Engineering & System SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 7.29 0.96 up from 2020 | 1,203 | 31% | $4,830 | ||
5Journal of InformetricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 4.21 1.53 down from 2020 | 260 | 33% | $3,220 | ||
6Structural SafetyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 4.83 0.80 down from 2020 | 193 | 35% | $4,430 | ||
7Journal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 4.07 1.03 up from 2020 | 340 | 41% | $3,310 | ||
8Research EvaluationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.61 0.73 up from 2020 | 122 | 57% | $3,470 | ||
9ScientometricsSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Hungary | 1.68Q1 | 4.17 0.52 up from 2020 | 1,087 | 50% | $3,190 | ||
10PublicationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.58Q1 | 3.32 1.09 up from 2020 | 160 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
11Learned PublishingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 3.15 0.69 up from 2020 | 194 | 40% | $2,080 | ||
12Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.37Q2 | 5.86 1.17 up from 2020 | 774 | 69% | $4,210 | ||
13Journal of Evidence-Based MedicineWiley · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 7.23 4.53 up from 2020 | 113 | 31% | $2,550 | ||
14Quality Technology & Quantitative ManagementTaylor & Francis · Taiwan | 1.19Q2 | 3.00 0.60 up from 2020 | 82 | 10% | — | ||
15Frontiers in Research Metrics and AnalyticsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.14Q2 | 2.53 0.29 down from 2020 | 68 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
16Probabilistic Engineering MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.61 1.32 down from 2020 | 110 | 25% | $3,370 | ||
17Journal of Data and Information ScienceOAChinese Academy of Sciences · China | 1.04Q2 | 2.15 0.48 down from 2020 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
18Quality and Reliability Engineering InternationalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 3.22 0.40 up from 2020 | 549 | 14% | $4,550 | ||
19Journal of Quality TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.98 0.26 down from 2020 | 154 | 29% | — | ||
20Insights the UKSG journalOAUKSG · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 1.70 0.39 up from 2020 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
21Quality EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.11 0.54 up from 2020 | 187 | 27% | — | ||
22MetrologiaIOP Publishing | 0.78Q3 | 2.47 0.29 down from 2020 | 360 | 44% | $3,325 | ||
23Journal of Scholarly PublishingUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 0.77Q3 | 1.10 0.03 down from 2020 | 84 | 8% | — | ||
24SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty QuantificationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 0.75Q3 | 1.50 0.33 down from 2020 | 164 | 60% | — | ||
25ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part B Mechanical EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.69Q3 | 2.32 1.31 up from 2020 | 140 | 23% | — | ||
26Science & Technology LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q3 | 1.44 0.25 up from 2020 | 80 | 6% | — | ||
27Publishing Research QuarterlySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.63Q3 | 0.76 0.22 up from 2020 | 210 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
28International Journal for Uncertainty QuantificationBegell House · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.37 0.06 down from 2020 | 99 | 47% | — | ||
29Science EditingOAKorean Council of Science Editors · South Korea | 0.61Q3 | 1.60 0.26 up from 2020 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
30Systematic ReviewsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 4.12 0.46 up from 2020 | 875 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
31Malaysian Journal of Library & Information ScienceOAUniversity of Malaya · Malaysia | 0.56Q3 | 1.28 0.41 up from 2020 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
32Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information ManagementTaylor & Francis · India | 0.55Q3 | 1.21 0.62 up from 2020 | 74 | 4% | — | ||
33Process Safety ProgressWiley · United States | 0.48Q4 | 1.13 0.01 up from 2020 | 252 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
34European Science EditingOAEuropean Association of Science Editors | 0.42Q4 | 1.05 0.52 up from 2020 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Verification Validation and Uncertainty QuantificationASM International · United States | 0.39Q4 | 1.02 0.19 down from 2020 | 76 | 30% | — | ||
36Sequential AnalysisTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.37Q4 | 1.07 0.23 up from 2020 | 84 | 18% | — | ||
37Accreditation and Quality AssuranceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.33Q4 | 1.23 0.61 up from 2020 | 143 | 30% | $3,890 | ||
38ISSIPublisher not listed | 0.12Q4 | 0.24 0.02 up from 2020 | 265 | — | — | ||
39Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access JournalOAUnited States | 0.08Q4 | 0.00 0.08 down from 2020 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.08Q4 | 0.19 0.05 up from 2020 | 45 | 17% | — | |||
41Vakuum in Forschung und PraxisWiley · Germany | 0.03Q4 | 0.08 0.01 down from 2020 | 264 | 18% | $3,300 | ||
42Journal of System SafetyOAUnited States | 0.02Q4 | 0.03 0.18 down from 2020 | 58 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research107
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty42
- Information Systems and Management33
- General Decision Sciences6
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 42
- Window papers (baseline)
- 23,119 +11.3% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.854 +0.9% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 33 | 35 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 42 | 42 | 43 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,655 | 7,881 | 8,261 | 8,530 | 8,899 | 9,385 | 10,136 | 11,118 | 12,000 | 13,295 | 14,465 | 15,544 | 16,416 | 17,458 | 18,887 | 19,792 | 20,290 | 20,366 | 20,776 | 21,441 | 22,511 | 23,119 | 23,517 | 23,020 | 22,646 | 22,974 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.69 | 0.62 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.55 | 0.76 | 0.850 | 1.15 | 0.92 | 0.842 | 0.848 | 0.96 | 0.840 | 1.01 | 0.87 | 0.86 | 0.749 | 0.846 | 0.88 | 0.95 | 0.854 | 0.79 | 0.747 | 0.74 | 0.90 |
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.