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Statistics in Medicine
Mathematics and statistics
Among the 50 mathematics and statistics journals in this index it has the 10th highest h-index and the 27th 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 1 588 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 51% |
| China | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 11% |
| Canada | 8% |
| Germany | 6% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 88% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials | 24% |
| Advanced Causal Inference Techniques | 15% |
| Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference | 11% |
| Statistical Methods and Inference | 10% |
| Statistical Methods in Epidemiology | 5% |
| Meta-analysis and systematic reviews | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- A comparison of different methods to adjust survival curves for confounders (2023, 181 citations)
- Pitfalls of the concordance index for survival outcomes (2023, 105 citations)
- Nothing to See Here? A Non‐Inferiority Approach to Parallel Trends (2026, 102 citations)
- In praise of Prais‐Winsten : An evaluation of methods used to account for autocorrelation in interrupted time series (2023, 86 citations)
- Sensitivity analysis with iterative outlier detection for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses (2024, 79 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 0277-6715):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Biometrics
- BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Biometrika
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- The Annals of Statistics
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