Journal profile · MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-STATISTICS & PROBABILITY
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal
ISSN 0346-1238 · eISSN 1651-2030 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ENGLAND · Bimonthly · Founded 1974
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal: CAS Zone 3 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.68; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 222 days to acceptance (95 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 49 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, Probability and Risk Models and Insurance and Financial Risk Management, together about 45% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal is a journal for actuarial sciences that deals, in theory and application, with mathematical methods for insurance and related matters. The bounds of actuarial mathematics are determined by the area of application rather than by uniformity of methods and techniques. Therefore, a paper of interest to Scandinavian Actuarial Journal may have its theoretical basis in probability theory, statistics, operations research, numerical analysis, computer science, demography, mathematical economics, or any other area of applied mathematics; the main criterion is that the paper should be of specific relevance to actuarial applications. It is the hope of the editors that the journal can promote progress in the development of actuarial methodology and the proliferation of established methods in practical actuarial work. A special workshop section is intended to stimulate cooperative efforts between practitioners and theoreticians to solve real-life actuarial problems. The workshop will be open for papers at any level of theoretical preparation, from mere descriptions of practical problems with pleas for help, via discussions and tentative solutions, to complete theoretical treatment of these problems. The journal also publishes survey articles and empirical studies. All articles are refereed. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal has been published since 1918. It is published for the Danish Society of Actuaries, the Actuarial Society of Finland, the Norwegian Society of Actuaries and the Swedish Society of Actuaries. Readership: Actuarial scientists - both practitioners and theoreticians.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-STATISTICS & PROBABILITY
Editor-in-chief Boualem DjehichePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Finland 2, Sweden 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk ManagementSocial Sciences18%
- Probability and Risk ModelsDecision Sciences15.7%
- Insurance and Financial Risk ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.2%
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and ApplicationsMathematics5.9%
- Stochastic processes and financial applicationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.5%
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.4%
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture ModelsComputer Science4.2%
- Risk and Portfolio OptimizationDecision Sciences3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- 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
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MathSciNetzbMATHCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Current Index to Statistics, Journal Contents in Quantitative Methods, Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts
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
- 1.68LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.8Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.28LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.28Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 82OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 783OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.79OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 22.31%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 49LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 59,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,567 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 16 | 0 |
| 2025 | 49 | 25 | 47 |
| 2024 | 39 | 21 | 175 |
| 2023 | 34 | 13 | 211 |
| 2022 | 43 | 17 | 317 |
| 2021 | 48 | 24 | 554 |
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
222 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 147 days – 301 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (95 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 246 days
- Sample
- 95 articles with submission and acceptance dates (101 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)
- 25%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 79 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 95 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal, part of Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program. Model summary
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabil…
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1974
- ISSN
- 0346-1238
- Electronic ISSN
- 1651-2030
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 2026, Issue 7 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Scandinavian Actuarial Journal
What CAS zone is Scandinavian Actuarial Journal in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal is in Zone 3 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications / Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods / Statistics & Probability. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Scandinavian Actuarial Journal?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.68; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 82.
How long does peer review take at Scandinavian Actuarial Journal?
Based on the dates recorded on 95 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 222 days (interquartile range 147–301 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 25%. 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 JCR quartile is Scandinavian Actuarial Journal in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Economics.
Where are the editorial board members of Scandinavian Actuarial Journal based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Finland (2) and Sweden (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Scandinavian Actuarial Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MathSciNet, zbMATH and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Scandinavian Actuarial Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .