Journal of Statistical Software
Last updated ISSN 1548-7660
Journal of Statistical Software is published by Foundation for Open Access Statistics in mathematics. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Statistical Software concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Data Analysis with R
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
- Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Optimal Experimental Design Methods
- Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
Key facts
| Publisher | Foundation for Open Access Statistics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1548-7660 |
| Subject area | Mathematics |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,646 |
| Publishing since | 1996 |
| Journal website | www.jstatsoft.org/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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