Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 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 Methods and Bayesian Inference, Statistical Methods and Inference and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, together about 24.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Statistics and Probability. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Series A (Statistics in Society) publishes high quality papers that demonstrate how statistical thinking, design and analyses play a vital role in all walks of life and benefit society in general. There is no restriction on subject-matter: any interesting, topical and revelatory applications of statistics are welcome. For example, important applications of statistical and related data science methodology in medicine, business and commerce, industry, economics and finance, education and teaching, physical and biomedical sciences, the environment, the law, government and politics, demography, psychology, sociology and sport all fall within the journal's remit. The journal is therefore aimed at a wide statistical audience and at professional statisticians in particular. Its emphasis is on well-written and clearly reasoned quantitative approaches to problems in the real world rather than the exposition of technical detail. Thus, although the methodological basis of papers must be sound and adequately explained, methodology per se should not be the main focus of a Series A paper. Of particular interest are papers on topical or contentious statistical issues, papers which give reviews or exposés of current statistical concerns and papers which demonstrate how appropriate statistical thinking has contributed to our understanding of important substantive questions. Historical, professional and biographical contributions are also welcome, as are discussions of methods of data collection and of ethical issues, provided that all such papers have substantial statistical relevance.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Statistics & Probability

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

1.91LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

3.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

72LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

183OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,543OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.49OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

45.96%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

91LetPub · 2026-09-13

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)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Tri-annual

Founded

1988

ISSN

0964-1998

Electronic ISSN

1467-985X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub