Journal profile · Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
ISSN 1524-1904 · eISSN 1526-4025 · John Wiley and Sons Ltd · ENGLAND · Quarterly
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry: CAS Zone 4 · Mathematics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.44; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,800; median 288 days to acceptance (90 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 100 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd and is in Zone 4 of Mathematics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications, Reliability and Maintenance Optimization and Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, together about 29.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ASMBI - Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (formerly Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis) was first published in 1985, publishing contributions in the interface between stochastic modelling, data analysis and their applications in business, finance, insurance, management and production. In 2007 ASMBI became the official journal of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (www.isbis.org). The main objective is to publish papers, both technical and practical, presenting new results which solve real-life problems or have great potential in doing so. Mathematical rigour, innovative stochastic modelling and sound applications are the key ingredients of papers to be published, after a very selective review process. The journal is very open to new ideas, like Data Science and Big Data stemming from problems in business and industry or uncertainty quantification in engineering, as well as more traditional ones, like reliability, quality control, design of experiments, managerial processes, supply chains and inventories, insurance, econometrics, financial modelling (provided the papers are related to real problems). The journal is interested also in papers addressing the effects of business and industrial decisions on the environment, healthcare, social life. State-of-the art computational methods are very welcome as well, when combined with sound applications and innovative models.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Editor-in-chief Nalini RavishankerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United States 21, India 3, Germany 3, Hong Kong, China 2, South Korea 2 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and ApplicationsMathematics12.2%
- Reliability and Maintenance OptimizationEngineering10.1%
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.4%
- Advanced Statistical Process MonitoringDecision Sciences6.7%
- Probabilistic and Robust Engineering DesignDecision Sciences5.3%
- Stochastic processes and financial applicationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.8%
- Advanced Statistical Methods and ModelsMathematics4.5%
- Probability and Risk ModelsDecision Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Mathematics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Mathematics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Mathematics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexWeb of ScienceINSPECMathSciNetzbMATHPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.44LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.43LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.81LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 494OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.16OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 13.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 42.5%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 74LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 86Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 81,577Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,000 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 67 | 31 | 14 |
| 2025 | 100 | 52 | 100 |
| 2024 | 84 | 60 | 176 |
| 2023 | 99 | 80 | 367 |
| 2022 | 86 | 31 | 359 |
| 2021 | 70 | 20 | 456 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
288 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 221 days – 372 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 309 days
- Sample
- 90 articles with submission and acceptance dates (178 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 19%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 19%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 25 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 25 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 278 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single-anonymous peer review, at least 2 reviewersPublisher website · model-extracted
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,800 / EUR 3,170 / GBP 2,550 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted6
- discussion papersASMB publishes: - Research Articles - Editorials - Discussion papers - Discussions - Rejoinders - Practitioner's CornerLength not stated
- discussionsASMB publishes: - Research Articles - Editorials - Discussion papers - Discussions - Rejoinders - Practitioner's CornerLength not stated
- editorialsASMB publishes: - Research Articles - Editorials - Discussion papers - Discussions - Rejoinders - Practitioner's CornerLength not stated
- practitioner's cornerASMB publishes: - Research Articles - Editorials - Discussion papers - Discussions - Rejoinders - Practitioner's CornerLength not stated
- rejoindersASMB publishes: - Research Articles - Editorials - Discussion papers - Discussions - Rejoinders - Practitioner's CornerLength not stated
- research articlesASMB publishes: - Research Articles - Editorials - Discussion papers - Discussions - Rejoinders - Practitioner's CornerLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship
Colour policy: colour illustrations supplied electronically in TIFF or EPS format published in colour at no cost to author on Wiley Online Library website. Model summary
Any colour illustrations supplied electronically in either TIFF or EPS format will be published in colour at no cost to the author on the Wiley Online Library website.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Data citation policy: data must be cited in same way as article, book, and web citations; authors required to include data citations as part of reference list. Model summary
Wiley journals require data to be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and Permissions
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement: If the Open Access option is not sele…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Complaints policy: contact journal in first instance for complaints regarding editorial staff, policy or process; refer to Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics if further support outside journal's management necessary. Model summary
To raise a complaint regarding editorial staff, policy or process please contact the journal in the first instance. If you believe further support outside the journal’s management is necessary, please refer to Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Policy
Preprint policy: journal will consider articles previously available as preprints; authors may post submitted version to preprint server at any time; authors requested to update pre-publication versions with link to final published article. Model summary
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 1524-1904
- Electronic ISSN
- 1526-4025
- Society / sponsor
- International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 42, Issue 5 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
What CAS zone is Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry is in Zone 4 of Mathematics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications / Operations Research & Management Science / Statistics & Probability. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Mathematics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.44; CiteScore 2.4, h-index 56.
How long does peer review take at Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry?
Based on the dates recorded on 90 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 288 days (interquartile range 221–372 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 19% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Reference style: AMA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry based?
Of the 46 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (21), India (3) and Germany (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Web of Science, INSPEC, MathSciNet and zbMATH; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry open access, and what is the APC?
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,800.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .