Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) 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 Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference and Statistical Methods and Inference, together about 35.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Statistics and Probability. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Series C seeks to publish papers that are tackling genuine problems in applied statistics, i.e. where applications are central to the paper and provide the motivation for the work presented. This usually implies that the specific application under study will also be mentioned in the title, and should figure prominently in abstract, introduction and discussion as well as in other parts of the paper. In essence, papers should directly engage with the application and should clearly indicate what additional insights into the applied problem have been gained by applying the suggested methodology. This also implies that some technical details, derivations and proofs might not form part of the main body of the text, but might be moved into supplementary material. Series C papers make a novel contribution to statistics by adapting or developing new statistical methodology for a specific applied context, or by demonstrating the innovative combination of existing advanced statistical methods. JRSS-C also accepts papers on computational statistics, machine learning and data science, if they are engaging with an application as outlined above. Papers where the application merely serves as an illustration for new methodology or papers that use well-established statistical methods to analyze data are not suitable for JRSS-C. Similarly, papers that only contain brief numerical illustrations or focus exclusively on simulation studies are not suitable, although numerical illustrations and simulations may of course form part of a JRSS-C paper. In terms of application areas and methodologies, Series C tries to be as broad as possible and therefore covers the whole range of interdisciplinary fields where statistics is applied, including but being by no means limited to agriculture, biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, genetics, industry, medicine, physics, and social sciences.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Statistics & Probability

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Germany 6, United Kingdom 5, United States 4, Italy 3, Canada 2 (35 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

1.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

2.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.88LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

67LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

194OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,011OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.66OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

43.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

67LetPub · 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

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

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

0035-9254

Electronic ISSN

1467-9876

Latest issue on the website

Volume 75, Issue 4 (November 2026)

Official links

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