--- title: "Statistics journal rankings: citations and h-index" description: "Among the 16 tracked statistics journals, Spatial Statistics has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (2.40), followed by Statistics and Computing (2.00) and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (1.48). By h-index, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis leads with 177." url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Among the 16 tracked statistics journals, Spatial Statistics has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (2.40), followed by Statistics and Computing (2.00) and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (1.48). (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T07:48:13+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Statistics journal rankings by citations The 16 tracked statistics journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) ## Key findings - Among the 16 tracked statistics journals, Spatial Statistics has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (2.40), followed by Statistics and Computing (2.00) and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (1.48). - By h-index, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis leads with 177. - Statistics and Computing published the most papers in 2025 (246). *Tracked statistics journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex)* | # | Journal | 2-year citedness | h-index | i10-index | Papers 2025 | Citations 2025 | Publisher | |---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---| | 1 | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | 2.40 | 52 | 355 | 72 | 2,000 | Elsevier BV | | 2 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 2.00 | 120 | 1,090 | 246 | 8,712 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 3 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 1.48 | 177 | 3,890 | 136 | 11,936 | Elsevier BV | | 4 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 1.48 | 68 | 659 | 109 | 2,779 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 5 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 1.46 | 64 | 809 | 138 | 2,386 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 6 | [Econometrics and Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/econometrics-and-statistics.md) | 1.38 | 27 | 144 | 29 | 675 | Elsevier BV | | 7 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 1.18 | 121 | 3,275 | 69 | 5,248 | Elsevier BV | | 8 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 1.14 | 138 | 2,761 | 149 | 6,646 | Elsevier BV | | 9 | [Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-the-institute-of-statistical-mathematics.md) | 1.09 | 94 | 1,385 | 48 | 2,246 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 10 | [Metrika](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/metrika.md) | 1.03 | 70 | 753 | 30 | 1,196 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 11 | [Statistical Methods & Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-methods-applications.md) | 0.96 | 48 | 308 | 55 | 971 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 12 | [Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-theory-and-practice.md) | 0.96 | 31 | 204 | 106 | 769 | Springer Nature | | 13 | [Lifetime Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/lifetime-data-analysis.md) | 0.84 | 68 | 455 | 37 | 1,208 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 14 | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | 0.83 | 15 | 38 | 38 | 293 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 15 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 0.76 | 105 | 3,288 | 214 | 5,433 | Elsevier BV | | 16 | [Journal of the Korean Statistical Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-korean-statistical-society.md) | 0.67 | 32 | 206 | 58 | 592 | Elsevier BV | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Statistics journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-rankings-journal-metrics-statistics, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Statistics journal rankings by citations}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics}}, urldate = {2026-10-31}, note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).