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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0035-9254Verify ISSN ↗1467-9876Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 127 / 303 | 58th | Q2 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 78 / 178 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993, 1983–1991, 1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics is Q2 in Statistics and Probability (rank 127 of 303) and Q2 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 78 of 178), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.734, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 85.
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 C: Applied Statistics is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0035-9254 and its online ISSN is 1467-9876.
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.
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 C: Applied Statistics has an h-index of 193 and a 2-year mean of 1.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 113. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.5%), Italy (14.8%) and United Kingdom (12.2%).
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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