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Journal of Official Statistics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0282-423XVerify ISSN ↗2001-7367Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 169 / 303 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1991, 1986–1989), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Journal of Official Statistics is Q3 in Statistics and Probability (rank 169 of 303), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Official Statistics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.473, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of Official Statistics is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0282-423X and its online ISSN is 2001-7367.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Official Statistics has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Journal of Official Statistics published 59 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.4%), Netherlands (8.8%) and United Kingdom (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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