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The Annals of Statistics
Mathematics and statistics
Among the 50 mathematics and statistics journals in this index it has the 5th highest h-index and the 9th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 401 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 62% |
| China | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 12% |
| France | 10% |
| Germany | 8% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 99% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Statistical Methods and Inference | 37% |
| Advanced Causal Inference Techniques | 6% |
| Random Matrices and Applications | 4% |
| Advanced Statistical Methods and Models | 4% |
| Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods | 3% |
| Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Conformal prediction beyond exchangeability (2023, 315 citations)
- Orthogonal statistical learning (2023, 112 citations)
- Testing for outliers with conformal p-values (2023, 102 citations)
- The generalization error of max-margin linear classifiers: Benign overfitting and high dimensional asymptotics in the overparametrized regime (2025, 75 citations)
- Nested Markov properties for acyclic directed mixed graphs (2023, 67 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 0090-5364):
- 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
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Biometrika
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)
- Biometrics
- Technometrics
- Statistics in Medicine
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