Journal of Applied Statistics

Journal of Applied Statistics is published by Routledge 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 Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference and Statistical Methods and Inference, together about 38.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Statistics and Probability. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Applied Statistics is a world-leading journal which provides a forum for communication among statisticians and practitioners for judicious application of statistical principles and innovations of statistical methodology motivated by current and important real-world examples across a wide range of disciplines, including, but not limited to: biological and biomedical sciences business, economics, management and finance computer science and information technology data science ecology education engineering genetics and genomics medicine and related disciplines operations research social sciences The editorial policy is to publish rigorous, clear and accessible papers on methods developed for real-life statistical problems, and which are anticipated to have a broad scientific impact. Purely theoretical papers are avoided but those on theoretical developments which clearly exhibit concrete applied potential may be considered. Papers demonstrating creative development of statistical techniques based on a true challenge in a subject area are strongly encouraged. The Journal publishes original research papers, review articles, and short application notes. In general, original research papers should present one or two challenges in an area, include relevant data, provide a novel method to solve challenges, and demonstrate that the proposed method has answered questions that were not properly or optimally addressed before by relevant existing methods. Review articles should focus on one or more current statistical research methods that have been widely used by other discipline(s), along with applications and a discussion for future directions. Application notes should at least illustrate innovative application of existing statistical method(s) to a data challenge in any discipline with convincing findings. Statistical software/software package papers (written in R, Python, or other software tools, openly accessible by researchers) are also welcome as Application Notes if the software is developed to implement a new statistical method, to provide innovative application of existing statistical method(s) that have not been implemented as software, or to substantially improve current statistical software. Please refer to the Instructions for Authors for specific guidelines on how to prepare software papers. All papers must be prepared using the Journal's templates. Original research and review articles should not typically be more than 20 manuscript pages, whi

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Statistics & Probability

Editor-in-chief Jie Chen BiostatisticsPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 1, United Kingdom 1, Netherlands 1, Denmark 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePMCCAB AbstractsMathSciNetzbMATHEconLitPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, RePEc, ABI/Inform, Australian Business Deans Council (ABCD), Australian Research Council ERA list 2015, Baidu Scholar, British Library Inside, CABS Academic Journal Guide, CNKI Scholar, CnpLINKer, CNPIEC, Current Index to Statistics, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI), DTU Findit, E-lib Breman, EBSCO Databases, EconPapers, Electronic Journals Library (EZB), Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi), Genamics JournalSeek, JournalTOCs, Microsoft Academic, Naver Academic, NHN Norwegian Register of Scientific Journals and Publishers, ProQuest Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, ProQuest Technology Collection

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.

Impact

Impact factor

1.03LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.7Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

3.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.53LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.53Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

48LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

101OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,699OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.39%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

175LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

179,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

3–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

14%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

101 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

21 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Routledge

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1984

ISSN

0266-4763

Electronic ISSN

1360-0532

Latest issue on the website

Volume 53, Issue 12 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website