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Journal of Statistical Software is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.9), ABDC A, WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Foundation for Open Access Statistics.
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ISSN 1548-7660Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Foundation for Open Access Statistics
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 3 / 178 | 98th | Q1 |
| Statistics and Probability | 5 / 303 | 98th | Q1 |
| Software | 34 / 503 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.9.
Journal of Statistical Software is Q1 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 3 of 178), Q1 in Statistics and Probability (rank 5 of 303) and Q1 in Software (rank 34 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Statistical Software is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 13.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.677, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
Journal of Statistical Software is published by Foundation for Open Access Statistics. Its ISSN is 1548-7660.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Statistics.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Statistical Software has an h-index of 232 and a 2-year mean of 14.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 173 Scopus journals in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.
Journal of Statistical Software published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 107. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.2%), Germany (9.8%) and United Kingdom (9.5%).
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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