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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)
Mathematics and statistics
Among the 50 mathematics and statistics journals in this index it has the 9th highest h-index and the 18th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 507 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 22% |
| China | 16% |
| Germany | 5% |
| Italy | 5% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 96% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Statistical Methods and Inference | 16% |
| Advanced Causal Inference Techniques | 15% |
| Statistical Methods and Applications | 9% |
| Topological and Geometric Data Analysis | 6% |
| Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods | 5% |
| Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference | 5% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with right-censored data via causal survival forests (2023, 115 citations)
- Estimating means of bounded random variables by betting (2023, 91 citations)
- Safe testing (2024, 75 citations)
- Vintage factor analysis with Varimax performs statistical inference (2023, 61 citations)
- Conformal prediction with conditional guarantees (2025, 46 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 1369-7412):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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