Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sports Analytics and Performance, Sports Performance and Training and Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics, together about 64.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal The current volume of Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS) is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.The Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS), an official journal of the American Statistical Association, publishes timely, high-quality peer-reviewed research on the quantitative aspects of professional and amateur sports, including collegiate and Olympic competition. The scope of application reflects the increasing demand for novel methods to analyze and understand data in the growing field of sports analytics. Articles come from a wide variety of sports and diverse perspec tives, and address topics such as game outcome models, measurement and evaluation of player performance, tournament structure, analysis of rules and adjudication, within-game strategy, analysis of sporting technologies, and player and team ranking methods. JQAS seeks to publish manuscripts that demonstrate original ways of approaching problems, develop cutting edge methods, and apply innovative thinking to solve difficult challenges in sports contexts. JQAS brings together researchers from various disciplines, includ ing statistics, operations research, machine learning, scientific computing, econometrics, and sports management. InterdisciplinaryStatisticsOperations ResearchEconomicsSports ManagementBusiness Your Benefits The Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is proud to announce a new feature, the Editor’s Choice free access article. To download the featured article free of charge, please click the link below.Your BenefitsThe Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is proud to announce a new feature, the Editor’s Choice free access article. To download the featured article free of charge, please click the link below.Vol. 20, Issue 4 Introducing Grid WAR: rethinking WAR for starting pitchers by Ryan S. Brill and Abraham J. WynerVol. 20, Issue 3 Estimating positional plus-minus in the NBA by Hua Gong and Su ChenVol. 20, Issue 2 Equity, diversity, and inclusion in sports analytics by Craig Fernandes, Jason D. Vescovi, Richard Norman, Cheri L. Bradish, Nathan Taback, and Timothy C.Y. ChanVol. 20, Issue 1 Editor’s Note: on fairness in sports analytics by Benjamin S. Baumer / Evaluating plate discipline in Major League Baseball with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees by Ryan Yee a

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS

Editor-in-chief Gil FellinghamPublisher website

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

1.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

2.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.44LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

41OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

218OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.28OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

21.33%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

25LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

2194-6388

Electronic ISSN

1559-0410

Society / sponsor

American Statistical Association

Official links

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