--- title: "Open access statistics journals, 2023–2025" description: "Of the 4,256 papers the 16 tracked statistics journals published in 2023–2025, 51% are open access (hybrid 27%, bronze 5% and green 19%). The open-access share went from 39% in 2017 to 48% in 2025." url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/statistics markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/statistics.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Of the 4,256 papers the 16 tracked statistics journals published in 2023–2025, 51% are open access (hybrid 27%, bronze 5% and green 19%). The open-access share went from 39% in 2017 to 48% in 2025. (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T19:11:11+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Open access in statistics journals The 16 tracked statistics journals ranked by the share of their 2023–2025 papers that are open access, with each status's share. Open-access status as OpenAlex reports it for each paper (diamond: published in an open-access journal that charges authors no fee; gold: published in an open-access journal; hybrid: open under a licence in a subscription journal; bronze: free to read on the publisher's site without an open licence; green: only a free copy in a repository; closed: no free copy found). Papers count by publication year; the share is of the papers whose status is known. By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/ai.md) ## Key findings - Of the 4,256 papers the 16 tracked statistics journals published in 2023–2025, 51% are open access (hybrid 27%, bronze 5% and green 19%). - The open-access share went from 39% in 2017 to 48% in 2025. - The most open journal is Statistical Methods & Applications (67%), followed by Statistics and Computing (67%) and Spatial Statistics (63%); the least open is Journal of the Korean Statistical Society (22%). *Tracked statistics journals by open-access share of their 2023–2025 papers (OpenAlex)* | # | Journal | Papers 2023–2025 | Open access | Diamond | Gold | Hybrid | Bronze | Green | Closed | |---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | 1 | [Statistical Methods & Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-methods-applications.md) | 148 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 52% | 2% | 13% | 33% | | 2 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 602 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 36% | 1% | 29% | 33% | | 3 | [Spatial Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/spatial-statistics.md) | 208 | 63% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 12% | 11% | 37% | | 4 | [Econometrics and Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/econometrics-and-statistics.md) | 120 | 62% | 0% | 0% | 38% | 2% | 22% | 38% | | 5 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 329 | 53% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 8% | 20% | 47% | | 6 | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 406 | 52% | 0% | 0% | 28% | 12% | 13% | 48% | | 7 | [Lifetime Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/lifetime-data-analysis.md) | 98 | 51% | 0% | 0% | 24% | 5% | 21% | 49% | | 8 | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | 136 | 51% | 0% | 0% | 38% | 3% | 10% | 49% | | 9 | [Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-the-institute-of-statistical-mathematics.md) | 108 | 47% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 45% | 53% | | 10 | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | 394 | 47% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 1% | 15% | 53% | | 11 | [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-planning-and-inference.md) | 225 | 46% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 11% | 18% | 54% | | 12 | [Computational Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics.md) | 378 | 45% | 0% | 0% | 24% | 3% | 18% | 55% | | 13 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 615 | 44% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 4% | 20% | 56% | | 14 | [Metrika](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/metrika.md) | 122 | 43% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 2% | 16% | 57% | | 15 | [Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-statistical-theory-and-practice.md) | 210 | 39% | 0% | 0% | 23% | 2% | 14% | 61% | | 16 | [Journal of the Korean Statistical Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-korean-statistical-society.md) | 157 | 22% | 0% | 0% | 11% | 4% | 7% | 78% | ## By year *All tracked statistics journals: papers per year by open-access status* | Year | Papers | Open access | Diamond | Gold | Hybrid | Bronze | Green | Closed | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | 2017 | 1,363 | 39% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 14% | 21% | 61% | | 2018 | 1,389 | 44% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 16% | 24% | 56% | | 2019 | 1,292 | 46% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 16% | 24% | 54% | | 2020 | 1,338 | 47% | 0% | 0% | 8% | 15% | 23% | 53% | | 2021 | 1,465 | 56% | 0% | 0% | 16% | 17% | 22% | 44% | | 2022 | 1,477 | 54% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 13% | 21% | 46% | | 2023 | 1,355 | 53% | 0% | 0% | 24% | 7% | 22% | 47% | | 2024 | 1,399 | 51% | 0% | 0% | 27% | 5% | 19% | 49% | | 2025 | 1,502 | 48% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 2% | 16% | 52% | | 2026 (so far) | 1,551 | 51% | 0% | 0% | 35% | 2% | 14% | 49% | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Open access in statistics journals. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/statistics ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-rankings-open-access-statistics, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Open access in statistics journals}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/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/).