Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Statistics and Probability journal rankings 2023
133 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Statistics and Probability has 133 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.84. The top three are Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences, The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, and Journal of Econometrics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
133 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Research Methods in Medicine & Health SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 1.94 5.01 down from 2022 | 46 | 59% | $3,900 | ||
2The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.88Q1 | 2.39 2.03 down from 2022 | 177 | 89% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 4.91 0.08 up from 2022 | 566 | 50% | $4,570 | ||
4Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.32 2.04 down from 2022 | 214 | 46% | — | ||
5Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 5.25 0.42 up from 2022 | 87 | 63% | $2,490 | ||
6Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.49 1.72 down from 2022 | 183 | 82% | $3,456 | ||
7Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 4.49 0.59 up from 2022 | 207 | 20% | $3,190 | ||
8American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.57 0.18 up from 2022 | 697 | 92% | $4,856 | ||
9Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.60Q1 | 4.00 0.26 down from 2022 | 90 | 63% | $4,090 | ||
10PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.52 0.21 down from 2022 | 178 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
11Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 1.46Q1 | 4.39 1.21 up from 2022 | 94 | 68% | $3,460 | ||
12Journal of Statistics and Data Science EducationOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.36 0.78 down from 2022 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
13The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.36Q1 | 2.65 0.46 down from 2022 | 439 | 51% | — | ||
14Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.70 0.78 down from 2022 | 149 | 67% | — | ||
15Journal of Numerical CognitionOAPsychOpen · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.41 0.14 up from 2022 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
16BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 4.81 0.22 down from 2022 | 907 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
17Bayesian AnalysisOAInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.00 2.15 down from 2022 | 147 | 100% | — | ||
18EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.19Q1 | 3.77 0.36 up from 2022 | 397 | 32% | — | ||
19Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 2.08 0.66 up from 2022 | 101 | 57% | $4,463 | ||
20The Quantitative Methods for PsychologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.16Q1 | 1.33 1.32 down from 2022 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
21Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 1.14Q1 | 2.51 0.12 up from 2022 | 619 | 63% | — | ||
22Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.10Q1 | 1.67 0.10 down from 2022 | 290 | 56% | — | ||
23CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems PharmacologyOANature Portfolio · United States | 1.05Q1 | 3.30 0.04 down from 2022 | 362 | 100% | $4,140 | ||
24BiometrikaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 2.05 0.15 up from 2022 | 225 | 51% | $3,592 | ||
25Statistics Education Research JournalOANetherlands | 1.05Q1 | 2.16 1.16 up from 2022 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
26MethodologyOAGermany | 1.05Q1 | 2.38 0.14 down from 2022 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
27Health Services and Outcomes Research MethodologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.02Q1 | 2.17 0.37 up from 2022 | 88 | 52% | $2,590 | ||
28The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.00Q1 | 1.78 0.31 down from 2022 | 152 | 68% | — | ||
29Statistics and Public PolicyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.95Q1 | 1.95 1.18 up from 2022 | 31 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
30Mathematical Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.93Q1 | 1.59 0.56 down from 2022 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of the Egyptian Mathematical SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 0.90Q1 | 1.79 1.25 down from 2022 | 98 | 100% | $625 | ||
32Journal of Pharmacokinetics and PharmacodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q1 | 2.58 0.13 down from 2022 | 162 | 61% | $4,390 | ||
33Statistics in MedicineWiley · United States | 0.88Q1 | 1.90 0.08 down from 2022 | 1,033 | 76% | $5,450 | ||
34International Statistical ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q1 | 1.74 0.38 down from 2022 | 122 | 59% | $4,880 | ||
35Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.81 0.40 down from 2022 | 392 | 77% | $3,456 | ||
36Statistical Methods in Medical ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.62 0.42 down from 2022 | 443 | 64% | $4,400 | ||
37Clinical TrialsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.01 0.21 down from 2022 | 250 | 68% | $4,150 | ||
38Pharmaceutical StatisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.38 0.15 down from 2022 | 270 | 60% | $4,880 | ||
39Journal of Causal InferenceOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.74Q2 | 1.77 0.64 up from 2022 | 54 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
40Journal of Computational and Graphical StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.61 0.64 down from 2022 | 332 | 54% | — | ||
41American Journal of Mathematical and Management SciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.41 0.14 up from 2022 | 65 | 7% | — | ||
42Computational Statistics & Data AnalysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.65Q2 | 1.46 0.07 up from 2022 | 501 | 42% | $3,540 | ||
43Econometrics and StatisticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 1.39 0.11 up from 2022 | 198 | 64% | $2,140 | ||
44BiostatisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 1.47 0.09 down from 2022 | 163 | 95% | $3,296 | ||
45Teaching StatisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 1.39 0.22 up from 2022 | 101 | 64% | $2,900 | ||
45BernoulliChapman and Hall London · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 1.33 0.23 up from 2022 | 340 | 37% | — | ||
47Computational StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 1.20 0.32 down from 2022 | 371 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
48BehaviormetrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.63Q2 | 1.98 0.18 down from 2022 | 78 | 60% | $3,290 | ||
49AStA Advances in Statistical AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.63Q2 | 1.25 0.02 up from 2022 | 101 | 76% | $2,990 | ||
50Biometrical JournalWiley · Germany | 0.63Q2 | 1.37 0.06 down from 2022 | 322 | 80% | $3,740 |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Statistics and Probability highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics181
- Geometry and Topology140
- Statistics and Probability133
- Mathematical Physics67
- Modeling and Simulation44
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics17
- Numerical Analysis8
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 additional Statistics and Probability journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 133
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,268 +15.1% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.50 -11.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.