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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · Est. 1934

ISSN1467-9868

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

3.734

H-Indexi

308

SNIPi

2.477

Total Worksi

4,154

Total Citationsi

742,314

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.65

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Statistics & Probability; Statistics and Probability; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1934

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications4,154

Publisher OrgOxford University Press

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Oxford University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1467-9868

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2.1k

2019

3.5k

2020

1.2k

2021

1.3k

2022

168

1.9k

2023

126

466

2024

153

2025

121

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Statistics and ProbabilityQ1

Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Statistics & Probability

Scopus Categories

Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyStatistics and Probability

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Statistical Methods and InferenceAdvanced Statistical Methods and ModelsStatistical Methods and Bayesian InferenceBayesian Methods and Mixture ModelsOptimal Experimental Design MethodsStatistical Distribution Estimation and ApplicationsBayesian Modeling and Causal InferenceStatistical Methods in Clinical TrialsAdvanced Statistical Process MonitoringAdvanced Causal Inference Techniques

Frequently asked questions about Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Is Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.65.

Is Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology?