Journal profile · Statistics & Probability
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
ISSN 0303-6898 · eISSN 1467-9469 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · SWEDEN · Quarterly · Founded 1974
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics: CAS Zone 4 · Mathematics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.19; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,500; median 314 days to acceptance (90 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 83 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Scandinavian Journal of 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 Statistical Methods and Inference, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, together about 48.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Statistics and Probability. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics is internationally recognised as one of the leading statistical journals in the world. It was founded in 1974 by four Scandinavian statistical societies. Today more than eighty per cent of the manuscripts are submitted from outside Scandinavia. It is an international journal devoted to reporting significant and innovative original contributions to statistical methodology, well justified by theory and numerical experiments, and illustrated by real data applications. The journal specialises in statistical modelling showing particular appreciation of the underlying substantive research problems.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Statistics & Probability
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named Sweden 12, United States 9, United Kingdom 4, Germany 3, Denmark 3 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Statistical Methods and InferenceMathematics22.8%
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian InferenceMathematics15.3%
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture ModelsComputer Science10.1%
- Advanced Statistical Methods and ModelsMathematics9%
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and ApplicationsMathematics6.5%
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.1%
- Statistical Methods in Clinical TrialsMathematics2.8%
- Advanced Causal Inference TechniquesMathematics2.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Mathematics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Mathematics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Mathematics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PsycINFOMathSciNetzbMATHCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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
- 1.19LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.07LetPub ·
- h-index
- 57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 888OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.1OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 33.69%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 68LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 73Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 90,130Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,923 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 53 | 29 | 11 |
| 2025 | 83 | 62 | 83 |
| 2024 | 64 | 40 | 126 |
| 2023 | 77 | 54 | 289 |
| 2022 | 71 | 46 | 370 |
| 2021 | 57 | 34 | 298 |
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
314 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 201 days – 439 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (91 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 335 days
- Sample
- 90 articles with submission and acceptance dates (138 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 25%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 25%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 321 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,500 / EUR 2,910 / GBP 2,290 | — | — |
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 websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Preprints
- License & copyright 6. Copyright and Permissions
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access For authors choosing Open Access
If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints 7. Preprint Policy
Preprint policy: preprints may be submitted and posted at any time; pre-publication versions should be updated with a link to the final published article. Model summary
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- SWEDEN
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1974
- ISSN
- 0303-6898
- Electronic ISSN
- 1467-9469
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 53, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
What CAS zone is Scandinavian Journal of Statistics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics is in Zone 4 of Mathematics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Statistics & Probability. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Mathematics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Scandinavian Journal of Statistics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.19; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 97.
How long does peer review take at Scandinavian Journal of Statistics?
Based on the dates recorded on 90 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 314 days (interquartile range 201–439 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 25% (2025). 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Scandinavian Journal of Statistics based?
Of the 46 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Sweden (12), United States (9) and United Kingdom (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Scandinavian Journal of Statistics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PsycINFO, MathSciNet, zbMATH and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Scandinavian Journal of Statistics open access, and what is the APC?
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,500.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .