About this journal
Aims and scope
The Theory and Methods series intends to publish papers that make theoretical and methodological advances in Probability and Statistics. New applications of statistical and probabilistic methods will also be considered for publication. In addition, special issues dedicated to a specific topic of current interest will also be published in this series periodically, providing an exhaustive and up-to-date review of that topic to the readership.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and if found suitable for further consideration, will be peer-reviewed by independent and anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via the Submission Portal.
Publishing Ethics Statement
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 233K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 2.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.025 (2023) SNIP
- 0.446 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 105 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 151 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 31% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
N. BALAKRISHNAN
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Senior Editors
WILLIAM R. SCHUCANY - Southern Methodist University, Texas
ANANT M. KSHIRSAGAR - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
JAMES E. GENTLE - George Mason University, Virginia
Founding Editor
DONALD B. OWEN (Volumes 1–20)
Former Editor
WILLIAM B. SMITH (Volumes 21–29)
Associate Editors
JAFAR AHMADI - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
HONGSHIK AHN - State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York
EBRAHIM AMINI-SERESHT - Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran
NIRIAN MARTIN APAOLAZA - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
BARRY C. ARNOLD - University of California, Riverside, California
N. BALAKRISHNA - Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India
ISMIHAN BAYRAMOGLU - Izmir Univeristy of Economics, Turkey
ANDRIETTE BEKKER - University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
FELIX BELZUNCE - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
NEDRET BILLOR - Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
ATANU BISWAS - Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
SWATI BISWAS - University of Texas at Dallas, USA
LAURENT BORDES - Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France
CHRYS CARONI - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
PHILIPPE CASTAGLIOLA - Université de Nantes
SUBHA CHAKRABORTI - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
PING-SHING CHAN - Chinese University of Hong Kong
PANKAJ KUMAR CHOUDHARY - University of Texas at Dallas, Texas
TASOS CHRISTOFIDES - University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
FRANK COOLEN - Durham University, Durham, UK
ERHARD CRAMER - Instiut fur Statistik und Wirtschaftsmathematik, Aachen, Germany
LIRONG CUI - Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
ANNA DEMBINSKA - Warsaw Technical University, Poland
EMILIO GÓMEZ DÉNIZ - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
TSAI-HUNG FAN - National Central University, Taiwan
HONGBIN FANG - Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
KATARZYNA FILIPIAK - Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
W. HOLMES FINCH - Ball State University, USA
DAVID GILES - University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
VALERIE GIRARDIN - Université Caen Normandie, France
GRACIELA GONZALEZ FARIAS - CIMAT (Research Center in Mathematics), Guanajuato, Mexico
JIANHUA GUO - Northeast Normal University, China
SUDHIR C. GUPTA - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
NIL KAMAL HAZRA - Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
LI-SHAN HUANG - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
JUERG HUESLER - University of Bern, Switzerland
ALAN HUTSON - University of Buffalo, New York
UDO KAMPS - RWTH, Aachen University, Germany
REZAUL KARIM - University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
DIMITRIS KARLIS - Athens University of Economics, Greece
MARIA KATERI - University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
B. M. GOLAM KIBRIA - Florida International University, Miami, Florida
CELESTIN C. KOKONENDJI - Universite de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France
CHRISTOS KOUKOUVINOS - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
MARKOS KOUTRAS - University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
TOMASZ KOZUBOWSKI - University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
K. KRISHNAMOORTHY - University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
CLAUDE LEFEVRE - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
GANG LI - GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
TAO LI - Shanghai University of Finance of Economics, China
NIKOLAOS LIMNIOS - Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne, France
CHIEN-TAI LIN - Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan
MAN HO LING - The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
MIN-QIAN LIU - Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R. China
YANYAN LIU - Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
FRANCISCO LOUZADA - ICMC-USP, Sao Carlos, Brazil
KRISTOFER MANSSON - Jonkoping University, Sweden
CHRISTINE E. McLAREN - University of California, Irvine, California
SOPHIE MERCIER - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
MOUNIR MESBAH - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
JIE MI - Florida International University, Miami, Florida
FOTIOS S. MILIENOS - University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
NEERAJ MISRA - India Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
NITIS MUKHOPADHYAY - University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
HIDEKI NAGATSUKA - Chuo University, Japan
ASOK NANDA - Indian Institution of Science Education and Research–Kolkata, Mohanpur, India
ALEKSANDAR NASTIC - University of Niš, Serbia
TAPAN NAYAK - George Washington University, Washington, DC
R. B. NELSEN - Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
MARKUS NEUHAEUSER - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
H. K. TONY NG - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
J. P. NOLAN - American University, Washington, DC
OMER OZTURK - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
SUVRA PAL - University of Texas at Arlington, Texas
MARIA DEL CARMEN PARDO - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
SANGUN PARK - Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
CHRISTIAN PAROISSIN - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
SIMO PUNTANEN - University of Tampere, Finland
N. RAO CHAGANTY - Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
MIROSLAV RISTIC - University of Nis, Serbia
TOMASZ RYCHLIK - Polish Academy of Sciences, Torun, Poland
LUIGI SALMASO - University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy
ALLAN SAMPSON - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
JOSE MARIA SARABIA - CUNEF Universidad, Madrid, Spain
ANANDA SEN - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
GABRIELE SOFFRITTI - University of Bologna, Italy
DARCY STEEG MORRIS - US Census Bureau, Alexandria, Virginia
ALEXEI STEPANOV - Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia
ALFONSO SUAREZ-LLORENS - Universidad de Cadiz
LIANSHENG LARRY TANG - George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
MAN-LAI TANG - Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
RAM TRIPATHI - University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
CHEN-AN TSAI - China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
ALAN WAN - City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
XIKUI WANG - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
XUEJUN WANG - Anhui University, China
SAM WEERAHANDI - Pfizer, USA
WING-KEUNG (ALAN) WONG - Asia University, Taiwan
MAOCHAO XU - Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
SARMA YADAVALLI - University of Pretoria, South Africa
CHUANCUN YIN - Qufu Normal University, China
BO ZHANG - Renmin University, China
PENG ZHAO - Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
XINGQUI ZHAO - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
XIAOJUN ZHU - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Social Media Editor
ERNEST FOKOUÉ - School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Abstracting and indexing
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods is abstracted/indexed in:
- American Mathematical Society
MathSciNet - American Statistical Association
Current Index to Statistics (Online) - CABI (various)
- EBSCOhost (various)
- Elsevier BV
Compendex
Scopus
- Genamics JournalSeek
- International Atomic Energy Agency
INIS Collection Search (International Nuclear Information System) - National Library of Medicine
PubMed
- OCLC
ArticleFirst
Electronic Collections Online
- Ovid
GeoRef
- Personal Alert (Email)
- ProQuest (various)
- Springer
Zentralblatt MATH (Online) - Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts (CD-ROM)
- The Engineering Index Monthly (DVD)
- Clarivate Analytics
Science Citation Index Expanded
Web of Science
Open access
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24 issues per year
Associated with:
- Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (1976 - current)
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