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Journal of Statistical Software

University of California at Los Angeles · United States · Est. 1996

ISSN1548-7660eISSN1548-7660
SJR Q1WOS SCIEScopus / SJRDOAJOpen Access
65
/ 100
Medium Risk
Score Breakdown
WoS SCIE/SSCI+25
Scopus Q1+25
DOAJ Verified+15
Total65
Journal Impact Factor
This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗
SJR Score
3.211
H-Index
228
CiteScore
View ↗
Scopus metric · on the journal’s page
SNIP
4.608
Total Works
1,638
Total Citations
466,020
2yr Mean Citedness
9.44
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Aims & Scope

The Journal of Statistical Software (JSS) is an open-source and open-access scientific journal by the statistical software community for everybody interested in statistical computing. All aspects of the journal, from editorial work over review and copy-editing up to typesetting and publication, are run by a group of volunteers committed to free software (as in software that respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes) and free-subscription, free-submission open-access publishing ideas. We aim to present research that demonstrates the joint evolution of computational and statistical methods and facilitates their application in practice. Implementations can use languages and environments like R, Python, Julia, MATLAB, SAS, Stata, C, C++, Fortran, among others. Articles describing a novel software contribution must cover implementations with a similar scope (including those in other languages and for other statistical software environments), and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the new contribution compared to existing implementations, when possible and also applicable using empirical illustrations. Extensive simulation studies are discouraged.

⚡ Speed vs Prestige
How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?
53
weeks to review
Slow · median is 15 wks
Q1
SJR Rank
Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published1996
FrequencyIrregular
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications1,638
Publisher OrgFoundation for Open Access Statistics
OA Since1995
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Submission Info

APC Cost💎 Diamond OA — Free
Peer ReviewPeer review
Review Time~53 weeks
Acceptance Rate
OA LicenseCC BY
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

9/12 · 75%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
University of California at Los Angeles
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1548-7660 / 1548-7660
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus, DOAJ
Peer review process documented?
Peer review
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
APC fees clearly disclosed?
No APC (Free)
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
No
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
English

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Times cited
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

SoftwareQ1
Statistics and ProbabilityQ1
Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Interdisciplinary ApplicationsStatistics & Probability

Scopus Categories

Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySoftwareStatistics and Probability

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Statistical Methods and Bayesian InferenceStatistical Methods and InferenceData Analysis with RBayesian Methods and Mixture ModelsAdvanced Statistical Methods and ModelsStatistical Methods in Clinical TrialsBayesian Modeling and Causal InferenceSoil Geostatistics and MappingOptimal Experimental Design MethodsSpatial and Panel Data Analysis
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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref