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Statistics and Probability Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0167-7152Verify ISSN ↗1879-2103Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,180 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 220 / 303 | 27th | Q3 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 130 / 178 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Statistics and Probability Letters is Q3 in Statistics and Probability (rank 220 of 303) and Q3 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 130 of 178), by CiteScore 2025.
Statistics and Probability Letters 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.421, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 79.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,180 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.
Statistics and Probability Letters is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0167-7152 and its online ISSN is 1879-2103.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Statistics.
It is graded 2 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.
Statistics and Probability Letters has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #208 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Statistics and Probability Letters published 214 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 327. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (33.8%), United States (15.4%) and United Kingdom (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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