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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0964-1998Verify ISSN ↗1467-985XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,456 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 166 / 744 | 77th | Q1 |
| Statistics and Probability | 78 / 303 | 74th | Q2 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 54 / 178 | 69th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 297 / 755 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 166 of 744), Q2 in Statistics and Probability (rank 78 of 303) and Q2 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 54 of 178), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.890, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,456 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0964-1998 and its online ISSN is 1467-985X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Statistics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society has an h-index of 182 and a 2-year mean of 1.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #213 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society published 214 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (28%), United Kingdom (20%) and Italy (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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