Statistics and probability journals, including the research-methods journals used by epidemiologists, psychologists and social scientists. All 149 journals are ranked by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, with each journal's quartile in statistics and its h-index.
Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data
Software and applied-methods journals collect citations fastest. Theoretical statistics and probability journals rank lower on a two-year citation average than their reputation suggests.
| Rank | Journal | 2026 score | Quartile | h-index | Publisher | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Statistical Software | 13.1 | Q1 | 231 | Foundation for Open Access Statistics | United States |
| 2 | RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY | 10.3 | Q1 | 224 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Research Synthesis Methods | 7.5 | Q1 | 109 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science | 7.2 | Q1 | 71 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 5 | Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application | 6.3 | Q1 | 64 | Annual Reviews | United States |
| 6 | EPIDEMIOLOGIC REVIEWS | 5.5 | Q1 | 179 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 7 | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 4.9 | Q1 | 223 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Statistics Surveys | 4.5 | Q1 | 31 | American Statistical Association | United States |
| 9 | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY | 4.3 | Q1 | 343 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 10 | STATISTICAL SCIENCE | 4.3 | Q1 | 176 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 11 | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY | 4.2 | Q1 | 163 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | United States |
| 12 | Sociological Methodology | 4.2 | Q1 | 123 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 13 | SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH | 4.2 | Q1 | 160 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 14 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Statistics | 3.9 | Q1 | 80 | Wiley | United States |
| 15 | Biochemia Medica | 3.7 | Q1 | 68 | Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine | – |
| 16 | Methodology-European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences | 3.6 | Q1 | 50 | – | Germany |
| 17 | Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications | 3.4 | Q1 | 25 | Springer Nature | France |
| 18 | International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education | 3.0 | Q1 | 45 | – | United Kingdom |
| 19 | Journal of Econometrics | 2.9 | Q1 | 332 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 20 | MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH | 2.9 | Q1 | 169 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 21 | ANNALS OF STATISTICS | 2.8 | Q1 | 322 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 22 | JOURNAL OF PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS | 2.8 | Q1 | 77 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 23 | Stata Journal | 2.6 | Q1 | 153 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 24 | Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology | 2.5 | Q1 | 44 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 25 | Research Integrity and Peer Review | 2.5 | Q2 | 39 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 26 | Advances in Data Analysis and Classification | 2.4 | Q1 | 52 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 27 | QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL | 2.4 | Q1 | 89 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Journal of Mathematical Behavior | 2.3 | Q1 | 91 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 29 | Quality Technology and Quantitative Management | 2.3 | Q1 | 41 | Taylor & Francis | – |
| 30 | Clinical Trials | 2.2 | Q1 | 93 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 31 | JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION | 2.2 | Q1 | 181 | National Council of Teachers of Mathematics | United States |
| 32 | JOURNAL OF QUALITY TECHNOLOGY | 2.2 | Q1 | 162 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 33 | Trials | 2.2 | Q1 | 133 | Springer Science+Business Media | United Kingdom |
| 34 | Educational Studies in Mathematics | 2.1 | Q1 | 158 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 35 | Probability Surveys | 2.1 | Q2 | 48 | Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability | United States |
| 36 | ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY | 1.9 | Q2 | 140 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 37 | BIOMETRIKA | 1.9 | Q2 | 364 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 38 | JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY | 1.9 | Q2 | 310 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 39 | Metron-International Journal of Statistics | 1.9 | Q2 | 32 | Springer Science+Business Media | Italy |
| 40 | PSYCHOMETRIKA | 1.9 | Q2 | 223 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 41 | Statistical Theory and Related Fields | 1.9 | Q2 | 16 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 42 | ANNALS OF PROBABILITY | 1.8 | Q2 | 190 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 43 | Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies | 1.8 | Q2 | 11 | – | Denmark |
| 44 | JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION | 1.8 | Q2 | 651 | – | – |
| 45 | Quality Engineering | 1.8 | Q2 | 68 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 46 | Quantitative Methods for Psychology | 1.8 | Q2 | 34 | – | – |
| 47 | STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH | 1.8 | Q2 | 142 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 48 | STATISTICS IN MEDICINE | 1.8 | Q2 | 307 | Wiley | United States |
| 49 | BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL | 1.7 | Q2 | 102 | Wiley | Germany |
| 50 | Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications | 1.7 | Q2 | 41 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 51 | Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology | 1.7 | Q2 | 35 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 52 | STATISTICS | 1.7 | Q2 | 58 | Taylor & Francis | Netherlands |
| 53 | STATISTICS AND COMPUTING | 1.7 | Q2 | 122 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 54 | Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association | 1.7 | Q3 | 23 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 55 | ANNALES DE L INSTITUT HENRI POINCARE-PROBABILITES ET STATISTIQUES | 1.6 | Q2 | 74 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | France |
| 56 | Annals of Applied Statistics | 1.6 | Q2 | 113 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 57 | BIOSTATISTICS | 1.6 | Q2 | 129 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 58 | PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS | 1.6 | Q2 | 61 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 59 | BRITISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL & STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGY | 1.5 | Q2 | 109 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 60 | International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering | 1.5 | Q2 | 38 | World Scientific | Singapore |
| 61 | Journal of Causal Inference | 1.5 | Q2 | 32 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 62 | Journal of Official Statistics | 1.5 | Q2 | 51 | De Gruyter Open | Sweden |
| 63 | JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS | 1.5 | Q2 | 193 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 64 | TECHNOMETRICS | 1.5 | Q2 | 502 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 65 | ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part B-Mechanical Engineering | 1.5 | Q3 | 27 | ASM International | United States |
| 66 | AMERICAN STATISTICIAN | 1.4 | Q2 | 211 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 67 | AStA-Advances in Statistical Analysis | 1.4 | Q2 | 37 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 68 | Bayesian Analysis | 1.4 | Q2 | 76 | International Society for Bayesian Analysis | United States |
| 69 | JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY | 1.4 | Q2 | 182 | Royal Statistical Society | United States |
| 70 | Mathematical Thinking and Learning | 1.4 | Q2 | 78 | Taylor & Francis | – |
| 71 | BIOMETRICS | 1.3 | Q2 | 405 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 72 | COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS | 1.3 | Q2 | 68 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 73 | ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE | 1.3 | Q3 | 53 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 74 | APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT | 1.3 | Q3 | 129 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 75 | Austrian Journal of Statistics | 1.3 | Q3 | 29 | Austrian Journal of Statistics | Austria |
| 76 | INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW | 1.3 | Q3 | 146 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 77 | JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS | 1.3 | Q3 | 146 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 78 | R Journal | 1.3 | Q3 | 78 | – | Austria |
| 79 | Sankhya-Series B-Applied and Interdisciplinary Statistics | 1.3 | Q3 | 22 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 80 | Stats | 1.3 | Q3 | 20 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 81 | Teaching Statistics | 1.3 | Q3 | 33 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 82 | COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS | 1.2 | Q3 | 177 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 83 | Econometrics and Statistics | 1.2 | Q3 | 26 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 84 | Electronic Journal of Statistics | 1.2 | Q3 | 72 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 85 | JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS | 1.2 | Q3 | 100 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 86 | JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION | 1.2 | Q3 | 95 | Taylor & Francis | Switzerland |
| 87 | Pythagoras | 1.2 | Q3 | 24 | AOSIS | South Africa |
| 88 | STATISTICAL PAPERS | 1.2 | Q3 | 63 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 89 | ECONOMETRIC THEORY | 1.1 | Q3 | 135 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 90 | ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY | 1.1 | Q3 | 75 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 91 | International Journal of Biostatistics | 1.1 | Q3 | 59 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 92 | Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability | 1.1 | Q3 | 42 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 93 | STATISTICA NEERLANDICA | 1.1 | Q3 | 70 | Wiley | Netherlands |
| 94 | Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research | 1.1 | Q3 | 38 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 95 | APPLIED STOCHASTIC MODELS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY | 1.0 | Q3 | 56 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 96 | Journal of Applied Mathematics Statistics and Informatics | 1.0 | Q3 | 15 | De Gruyter Open | – |
| 97 | JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS | 1.0 | Q3 | 139 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 98 | Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference | 1.0 | Q3 | 121 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 99 | Mathematical Population Studies | 1.0 | Q3 | 37 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 100 | METRIKA | 1.0 | Q3 | 70 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 101 | Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research | 1.0 | Q3 | 34 | University of the Punjab | – |
| 102 | SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS | 1.0 | Q3 | 96 | Wiley | Sweden |
| 103 | STATISTICAL MODELLING | 1.0 | Q3 | 62 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 104 | TEST | 1.0 | Q3 | 64 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 105 | ANNALS OF THE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS | 0.9 | Q3 | 94 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 106 | JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS | 0.9 | Q3 | 101 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 107 | Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics | 0.9 | Q3 | 72 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 108 | JOURNAL OF NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS | 0.9 | Q3 | 61 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 109 | Journal of Probability and Statistics | 0.9 | Q3 | 27 | Hindawi Publishing Corporation | United Kingdom |
| 110 | Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice | 0.9 | Q3 | 31 | Springer Nature | Switzerland |
| 111 | REDIMAT-Revista de Investigacion en Didactica de las Matematicas | 0.9 | Q3 | 16 | Hipatia Press | Spain |
| 112 | Statistical Methods and Applications | 0.9 | Q3 | 48 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 113 | COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION | 0.8 | Q3 | 89 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 114 | Dependence Modeling | 0.8 | Q3 | 20 | De Gruyter Open | Poland |
| 115 | Statistical Analysis and Data Mining-An Asa Data Science Journal | 0.8 | Q3 | 50 | Wiley | United States |
| 116 | LIFETIME DATA ANALYSIS | 0.8 | Q4 | 67 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 117 | Mathematical Methods of Statistics | 0.8 | Q4 | 22 | Pleiades Publishing | United States |
| 118 | Sequential Analysis-Design Methods and Applications | 0.8 | Q4 | 38 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 119 | Stat | 0.8 | Q4 | 28 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 120 | Statistics in Biosciences | 0.8 | Q4 | 30 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 121 | Statistics in Transition | 0.8 | Q4 | 20 | Exeley Inc | Poland |
| 122 | COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-THEORY AND METHODS | 0.7 | Q4 | 123 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 123 | Gazi University Journal of Science | 0.7 | Q4 | 23 | – | Turkey |
| 124 | Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science | 0.7 | Q4 | 14 | Springer Science+Business Media | Singapore |
| 125 | Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics | 0.7 | Q4 | 13 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 126 | Monte Carlo Methods and Applications | 0.7 | Q4 | 34 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 127 | Sankhya-Series A-Mathematical Statistics and Probability | 0.7 | Q4 | 18 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 128 | ALEA-Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics | 0.6 | Q4 | 17 | – | Brazil |
| 129 | AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF STATISTICS | 0.6 | Q4 | 55 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 130 | CANADIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE STATISTIQUE | 0.6 | Q4 | 85 | Wiley | Canada |
| 131 | Communications in Mathematics and Statistics | 0.6 | Q4 | 23 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 132 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS IN PROBABILITY | 0.6 | Q4 | 51 | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | United States |
| 133 | STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS | 0.6 | Q4 | 106 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 134 | Advances and Applications in Statistics | 0.5 | Q4 | 12 | – | India |
| 135 | Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics | 0.5 | Q4 | 30 | Associação Brasileira de Estatística | Brazil |
| 136 | Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods | 0.5 | Q4 | 22 | Korean Statistical Society | South Korea |
| 137 | Journal of the Korean Statistical Society | 0.5 | Q4 | 32 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 138 | Statistics and Its Interface | 0.5 | Q4 | 40 | Lehigh University | United States |
| 139 | Chilean Journal of Statistics | 0.3 | Q4 | 6 | – | – |
| 140 | International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences | 0.3 | Q4 | 8 | – | India |
| 141 | SOUTH AFRICAN STATISTICAL JOURNAL | 0.3 | Q4 | 16 | – | South Africa |
| 142 | Korean Journal of Applied Statistics | 0.2 | Q4 | 10 | – | South Korea |
| 143 | STATISTICA SINICA | 0.2 | Q4 | 56 | Institute of Statistical Science | – |
| 144 | REVSTAT-Statistical Journal | 0.1 | Q4 | 3 | – | – |
| 145 | Statistics & Risk Modeling | 0.1 | Q4 | 40 | R. Oldenbourg Verlag | Germany |
| 146 | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology | 0.0 | Q4 | 56 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 147 | JIRSS-Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society | 0.0 | Q4 | 16 | – | – |
| 148 | Survey Methodology | 0.0 | Q4 | 12 | Statistics Canada | Canada |
| 149 | Thailand Statistician | 0.0 | Q4 | 7 | – | – |
Most statistics journals on this list are published in United States (46), United Kingdom (31), Germany (15), Netherlands (14), India (5).
By the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, the five highest-ranked statistics journals are Journal of Statistical Software, RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY, Research Synthesis Methods, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. The score is a two-year citation average, so check each journal's scope and article types before choosing where to submit.
33 of the 149 statistics journals on this page are Q1, meaning they rank in the top quarter of their OpenAlex subfield by score. 37 are Q2, 45 are Q3 and 34 are Q4.
A journal is included when at least two of its four main OpenAlex research topics are classified under Statistics and Probability or Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Journals are ordered by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score: citations received in the latest complete year to works published in the two years before, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles compare each journal with every journal in the same subfield.