About this journal
Aims and scope
Established in 1888 and published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, the Journal of the American Statistical Association ( JASA ) has long been considered the premier journal of statistical science. Articles focus on statistical applications, theory, and methods throughout all disciplines that make use of data, including economic, social, biological, physical, engineering, and health sciences and the humanities. Important books contributing to statistical advancement are reviewed in JASA .
JASA is indexed in Current Index to Statistics and MathSci Online and reviewed in Mathematical Reviews. JASA is abstracted by Access Company and is indexed and abstracted in the SRM Database of Social Research Methodology.
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ASA Statement on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
The leadership of the American Statistical Association commits to strengthening our professional community by making it more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive. We affirm that our mission, Promote the Practice and Profession of Statistics, can be realized only by fully embracing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusivity in all of our operations. Individuals embody many traits, so the leadership will work with the members of ASA to create and sustain responsive, flourishing, and safe environments that support individual needs, stimulate intellectual growth, and promote professional advancement for all. We commit to these objectives:
- Learn from our members and others how to identify and overcome systemic racism and hindering biases of any kind
- Critically reappraise and improve the effectiveness of our JEDI efforts
- Identify and develop resources for individuals and organizations in our professional community to enable growth and appreciation for cultural humility
- Share openly our diversity and inclusion efforts and the solutions we have implemented
Journal metrics
Usage
- 872K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 7.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 3.007 (2023) SNIP
- 3.922 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 69 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 99 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 44 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 16% 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
Coordinating Editor and Applications and Case Studies Editor
Michael Stein - Rutgers University
Past Coordinating Editor and Applications and Case Studies Editor
Heping Zhang - Yale University
Applications and Case Studies Associate Editors
Carter Butts - University of California, IrvineSocial and Biophysical Networks
Howard Chang - Emory University
Spatial and Environmental Epidemiology
Haitao Chu - University of Minnesota
Infectious Disease; Epidemiology and Research Synthesis
Debbie Dupuis - HEC Montreal
Environmental Science; Finanace
Malka Gorfine - Tel Aviv University
Medical Data
Rebecca Hubbard - University of Pennsylvania
Cancer Epidemiology; Pharmacoepidemiology
Matthias Katzfuss - Texas A&M University
Environmental Science; Climate Science; Satellite Remote-Sensing Data
Dehan Kong - University of Toronto
Neuroimaging; Genetics and Genomics
Linglong Kong - University of Alberta
Neuroimaging Data Analysis and AI in Health
Mikael Kuusela - Carnegie Mellon University
Oceanography; High-energy Physics; Remote Sensing
Jingyi Jessica Li - University of California Los Angeles
Genomics; Biomedical Science
Blakeley McShane - Northwestern University
Meta-science in Biomedicine/Social Sciences; Social Psychology/Consumer Behavior
Bin Nan - University of California, Irvine
Aging and Dementia; Brain Imaging
Yue Niu - University of Arizona
Bioinformatics; Human Genetics
Nicole Pashley - Rutgers University
Social Science; Political Science
Mark Risser - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Climate Extremes; Climate Change Attribution
Daniel Sewell - University of Iowa
Infection Disease Modeling; Epidemiology
Rebecca Steorts - Duke University
Entity Resolution; Human Rights
Alexander Volfovsky - Duke University
Biomedical Science, Political Science, Computational Social Science
Lu Wang - University of Michigan
Personalized Health Care; Environmental Science
Pei Wang - Ichan Sch. of Med. Mount Sinai
Proteomics and Genomics; Cancer
Wenyi Wang - MD Anderson Cancer Ctr
Tumor Heterogeneity and Evolution; Cancer Risk Prediction
Xueqin Wang - University of Sci and Tech of China
Life Science and Medicine; Astronomy
Minge Xie - Rutgers University
Biomedical Research; Government and Industry
Keming Yu - Brunel University
Gerontology; Engineering
Yan Yu - University of Cincinnati
Finance; Marketing
Tingting Zhang - University of Pittsburgh
Neuroimaging Data Analysis; Brain Networks
Corey Zigler - University of Texas, Austin
Environmental Epidemiology; Health Policy
A&CS Associate Editors for Reproducibility
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan - Wake Forest University
Natalia da Silva - Universidad de la República
Vinícius Diniz Mayrink - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Jeff Goldsmith - Columbia University
Emily Hector - North Carolina State University
Stephanie Hicks - Johns Hopkins University
Michael Kane - Yale University
Youjin Lee - Brown University
Chris Paciorek - University of California–Berkeley
Therri Usher - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Julian Wolfson - University of Minnesota.
Julia Wrobel - Colorado School of Public Health
Editorial Coordinator
Jamie Hutchens[email protected]
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Theory and Methods Co-Editors
Jianqing Fan - Princeton UniversityAnnie Qu - University of California, Irvine
Dylan Small - University of Pennsylvania
Past Theory and Methods Co-Editors
Ian McKeague - Columbia UniversityMarina Vannucci - Rice University
Jane-Ling Wang - University of California, Davis
Theory and Methods Associate Editors
Genevera Allen - Rice UniversityEry Arias-Castro - University of California - San Diego
Yves Atchade - Boston University
Sivaraman Balakrishnan - Carnegie Mellon University
Heather Battey - Imperial Coll. London
Veronica Berrocal - University of California, Irvine
Bhaswar Bhattacharya - University of Pennsylvania
Xuan Bi - University of Minnesota
Gerard Biau - Sorbonne University
Jacob Bien - University of Southern California
Howard D. Bondell - University of Melbourne
Tianxi Cai - Harvard University
Matias D. Cattaneo - Princeton University
Kwun Chuen (Gary) Chan - University of Washington
Ngai Chan - Chinese University –Hong Kong
Jinyuan Chang - Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Ming-Hui Chen - University of Connecticut
Yuxin Chen - University of Pennsylvania
Ming-Yen Cheng - Hong Kong Baptist University
David Choi - Carnegie Mellon University
Gerda Claeskens - Katholieke University Leuven
Tirthankar Dasgupta - Rutgers University
Richard Davis - Columbia University
Holger Dette- Ruhr - University –Bochum
Peng Ding - University of California, Berkeley
Arnaud Doucet - Oxford University
David Dunson - Duke University
Philip Ernst - Imperial Coll. London
Ashkan Ertefaie - University of Rochester Medical Center
Yingying Fan - University of Southern California
Yang Feng - New York University
Piotr Fryzlewicz - London Sch. of Economics
Haoda Fu - Eli Lilly & Co.
Irina Gaynanova, Texas A&M University
Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga - University de Santiago de Compostela
Michele Guindani - University of California, Los Angeles
Adityanand Guntuboyina - Berkeley
Zijian Guo - Rutgers University
Marc Hallin - University libre de Bruxelles
Jan Hannig - University of North Carolina
Ning Hao - University Arizona
David Haziza - University of Ottawa
Ruth Heller - Tel Aviv University
Giles Hooker - Cornell University
Feifang Hu - George Washington University
Jian Huang - Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jiming Jiang - University California - Davis
Hyunseung Kang - University Wisconsin, Madison
Tracy Ke - Harvard University
Edward Kennedy - Carnegie Mellon University
Inyoung Kim - Virginia Tech
Samory Kpotufe - Columbia University
Jing Lei - Carnegie Mellon University
Fan Li - Duke University
Lexin Li - University of California - Berkeley
Runze Li - Pennsylvania State University
Kunpeng Li - Capital University of Economics and Business
Yingying Li - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Feng Liang - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Yuan Liao - Rutgers University
Hua-Zhen Lin - Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Lan Liu - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yufeng Liu - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Po-Ling Loh - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jinchi Lv - University of Southern California
Li Ma - Duke University
Shujie Ma - University of California-Riverside
Tapabrata Maiti - Michigan State University
Fabrizia Mealli - University of Florence
Marcelo Medeiros - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Hans Mueller - University of California, Davis
Ursula Mueller - Texas A&M University
Axel Munk - University of Göttingen
Per Mykland - University of Chicago
Boaz Nadler - Weizmann Inst of Science
Long Nguyen - University of Michigan
Richard Nickl - University of Cambridge
Dan Nordman - Iowa State University
Byeong U. Park - Seoul National University
Debashis Paul - University of California, Davis
Ming-Hui Qian - Columbia University
Veronika Rockova - University of Chicago
Abel Rodriguez - University of Washington
Elvezio Ronchetti - University of Geneva
Holger Rootzen - Chalmers University of Technology
Etienne Roquain - Sorbonne Université
David Rossell - Pompeu Fabra University
Bodhisattva Sen - Columbia University
Babak Shahbaba - University of California, Irvine
Xiaofeng Shao - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Yiyuan She - Florida State University
Weining Shen - University of California, Irvine
Xiaotong Shen - University of Minnesota
Chengchun Shi - London School of Economics and Political Science
Ilya Shpitser - Johns Hopkins University
Peter X.-K. Song - University of Michigan
Rui Song - Amazon Inc./North Carolina State University
Weijie Su - University of Pennsylvania
Mahlet Tadesse - Georgetown University
Zhiqiang Tan - Rutgers University
Cheng Yong Tang - Temple University
Xiwei Tang - University of Virginia
Surya Tokdar - Duke University
Xin Tong - University of Southern California
Ingrid Van Keilegom - KU Leuven
Stefan Wager - Stanford University
Junhui Wang - Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mei-Cheng Wang - Johns Hopkins University
Naisyin Wang - University Michigan
Huixia Wang - George Washington University
Xiao Wang - Purdue University
Frank Windmeijer - University of Oxford
Weng Kee Wong - University of California, Los Angeles
David Woods - University of Southampton
Yichao Wu - University of Illinois, Chicago
Yao Xie - Georgia Institute of Technology
Dacheng Xiu - University of Chicago
Chen Xu - University of Ottawa
Gongjun Xu - University of Michigan
Lingzhou Xue - Pennsylvania State University
Lan Xue - Orgeon State University
Anru Zhang - Duke University
Jin-Ting Zhang - National University of Singapore
Kai Zhang - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emma Jingfei Zhang - University of Miami
Chunming Zhang - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wenyang Zhang - University of Macau
Zhengjun Zhang - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yingqi Zhao - Fed Hutchinson Cancer Center
Wei Zhong - Xiamen University
Hua Zhou - University of California, Los Angeles
Ruoqing Zhu - University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Zhongyi Zhu - Fudan University
Hui Zou - University Minnesota
Editorial Coordinator
Jamie Hutchens[email protected]
Review Editor
Thomas Lee
University of California, Davis
Reviews Associate Editors
Brenda Betancourt - NORC at University of Chicago
Andrew Bray - University of California Berkeley
K. C. Gary Chan - University of Washington
Yen-Chi Chen - University of Washington
Yang Chen - University of Michigan
Grace S. Chiu - William & Mary Virginia Inst of Marine Science
Haeran Cho - University of Bristol
Jairo Fuquene-Patino - University of California Davis
Ruobin Gong - Rutgers University
Woncheol Jang - Seoul National University
Alex Luedtke - University of Washington
Patricia Martinkova - Czech Academy of Sciences
Kelly McConville - Harvard University
Yang Ni - Texas A&M University
Xiaoyue Niu - Penn State University
Qing Pan - George Washington University
Maria Giovanna Ranalli - University of Perugia
Claudia Tarantola - University of Pavia
Anne van Delft - Columbia University
Anton Westveld - Australian National University
Jonathan Williams - NC State University
Raymond K. W. Wong - Texas A&M University
To submit a book for review, please contact Jamie Hutchens at [email protected]
Editorial Coordinator
Jamie Hutchens
[email protected]
Journal Manager
Eric Sampson
Production Editor
Danielle Thibault
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of the American Statistical Association is abstracted/indexed in:
- American Mathematical Society
- MathSciNet
- American Statistical Association
- Current Index to Statistics (Online)
- Business Index
- CABI
- Index Veterinarius (Online)
- InfoTree
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- Chemical Abstracts (Online)
- De Gruyter Saur (various)
- EBSCOhost (various)
- Elsevier BV
- Scopus
- Gale (various)
- Genamics JournalSeek
- Market Research Abstracts (Online)
- National Library of Medicine
- PubMed
- OCLC
- ArticleFirst
- Periodical Abstracts
- Ovid
- EconLit
- Personal Alert (Email)
- ProQuest (various)
- Springer
- Zentralblatt MATH (Online)
- Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts (CD-ROM)
- Clarivate Analytics
- Current Contents
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Web of Science
- Trade & Industry Index
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- World Banking Abstracts (Online)
- zbMATH
Open access
Journal of the American Statistical Association is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our 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 discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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Association information
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a leading professional organisation for statisticians, dedicated to the research and practice of statistics and statistical analysis. It focuses on the development, application, and dissemination of statistical science and operates at the interface of academia, policy, and practice.
Members of ASA are eligible to receive online access to each of the society’s subscription-based journals, online access to Math Horizons and other Taylor & Francis statistics and mathematics journals.
The association publishes the magazine CHANCE and ten journals:
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (an open access journal)
Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Statistics and Public Policy (an open access journal)
The American Statistician
Technometrics
Data Science in Science
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Currently known as:
- Journal of the American Statistical Association (1922 - current)
Formerly known as
- Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association (1912 - 1921)
- Publications of the American Statistical Association (1888 - 1911)
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