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South African Statistical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. Published by South African Statiscal Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0038-271XVerify ISSN ↗1996-8450Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Statiscal Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 166 / 178 | 7th | Q4 |
| Statistics and Probability | 283 / 303 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
South African Statistical Journal is Q4 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 166 of 178) and Q4 in Statistics and Probability (rank 283 of 303), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Statistical Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 7th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
South African Statistical Journal is published by South African Statiscal Association. Its print ISSN is 0038-271X and its online ISSN is 1996-8450.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South African Statistical Journal has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #154 of 173 Scopus journals in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.
South African Statistical Journal published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 27. 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 45 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (55.2%), India (8.9%) and United States (6.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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