Pak. J. Statist.

2013 Vol. 29(2), 253-260

A NOTE ON THE IMPACT FACTOR JOURNALS OF

‘STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY’

Faisal Qadeer and Munir Ahmad

National College of Business Administration and Economics,
Lahore, Pakistan
Email: mfaisalqr@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT
This brief communications aims at sharing the list of impact factor journals of
‘Statistics & Probability’ as per the Journal Citation Report 2011 released by Institute of
Scientific Information. This would update the academia and practitioner on their
information about the ranking of the journals. The study makes country and regions wise
comparisons of the changes in no of journals and their mean impact factors reported in
the previous and current reports.

KEYWORDS
Journal Citation Reports, Impact Factor, Statistics and Probability, Pakistan.

Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) announced the first impact factor (IF) of
Pakistan Journal of Statistics (PJS) in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) 2010. At that
event, PJS traced its contributions in comparison with the other courtiers (Qadeer &
Ahmad, 2012), the study includes a complete list of 110 IF journals for the subject
category of ‘Statistics & Probability’. The academic audience of PJS appreciated that
information very much. Many of them proposed that the list of IF journals may be
updated every year.

Now after the release of JCR (2011) this is high time to update the list. The
list of 3-year IF journals of in the subject category ‘Statistics & Probability’ in
the Science Citation Index is now being presented here (Appendix A). As per this
report there are 116 IF journals as against 110 in the previous list. Therefore, 6 more
journals qualified to enter the list. Two of these new entrants (Quality & Quantity
& Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research) originate from USA; 1 each from Germany
(ALEA-Latin American Journal of Probability), Brazil (Brazilian Journal of Probability
and Statistics), France (ESAIM-Probability and Statistics) and Taiwan (Quality
Engineering).

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Table 1
Impact Factor Change by Country of Origin: JCR 2010 VS 2011
Impact Factor Change
Country Mean IF
(no of journals) Total
of Origin
Lower Same Higher New 2010 2011 Change
England 12 1 14 0 27 1.278 1.300 0.022
Germany 9 0 3 1 13 0.880 0.758 (0.122)
Netherlands 6 0 8 0 14 1.171 1.097 (0.074)
USA 20 0 17 2 39 1.263 1.275 0.013
Others (17) 8 1 11 3 23 0.548 0.490 (0.059)
Total 55 2 53 6 116 1.083 1.046 (0.037)

There are 21 countries now that have at least one IF Journal, please recall as per JCR
2010, there were 20 countries. The change in the number of IF of the journals for the four
major countries is summarized in Table 1. As 6 journals are new, therefore the
comparison of IF of 110 journals can be made. Off the 110, the IF of 55 journals is
relatively lower in JCR 2011 than JCR 2010, 53 journals have higher IF and the
remaining 2 journals have IF in the two reports. The mean IF change of the journals from
England and USA is positive, this change in mean IF of Netherland, Germany and 17
other countries is negative. This may also be noted from Table 1 that the mean IF change
of all the journals in this subject category is in negative direction.

Table 2
Impact Factor Change by Regions of the World: JCR 2010 VS 2011
Impact Factor Change
Country Mean IF
(No. of Journals) Total
of Origin
Lower Same Higher New 2010 2011 Change
Asia 3 0 5 1 9 0.514 0.524 0.010
Australia 1 0 0 0 1 0.618 0.436 (0.182)
Europe 30 1 30 2 63 1.088 1.032 (0.055)
N. America 21 0 18 2 41 1.231 1.239 0.008
S. America 0 1 0 1 2 0.056 0.158 0.102
Total 55 2 53 6 116 1.083 1.046 (0.037)

The change in the number of IF of the journals for the five regions of the world
originating IF journals in the subject category of ‘Statistics & Probability’ has been
summarized in Table 2. The mean IF change of the journals from Asia, N. America and
S. America is positive. This change in mean IF of Australia and Europe is negative.
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Table 3
Impact Factor Journals of Pakistan
2010 2011
S# Name of Journal Subject Category
3-Year IF
Asian Journal of Animal and
1 Veterinary Sciences 0.24 0.87
Veterinary Advances
International Journal of Agriculture Agriculture,
2 - 0.94
and Biology Multidisciplinary
International Journal of Pharmacology &
3 - 1.50
Pharmacology Pharmacy
Journal of Animal and Plant Agriculture,
4 0.25 0.59
Sciences Multidisciplinary
Journal of Animal and Veterinary
5 Veterinary Sciences 0.29 0.39
Advances
Journal of the Chemical Society of Chemistry,
6 0.19 1.38
Pakistan Multidisciplinary
JCPSP-Journal of the College of Medicine, General &
7 0.34 0.34
Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan Internal
8 Pakistan Journal of Botany Plant Sciences 0.95 0.91
Pakistan Journal of Medical Medicine, General &
9 0.17 0.16
Sciences Internal
Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Pharmacology &
10 0.73 1.10
Sciences Pharmacy
11 Pakistan Journal of Statistics Statistics and Probability 0.16 0.29
12 Pakistan Journal of Zoology Zoology 0.15 0.34
13 Pakistan Veterinary Journal Veterinary Sciences 0.71 1.26

According to JCR 2011, there are 13 IF journals of Pakistan (Table 3) as against 11 IF

journals as per JCR 2010. The mean IF change of all the journals from Pakistan is
positive except for the two journals for which the change is in negative direction by a
very small number. These journals fall in eight subject categories in the Science Citation
Index. For a realistic comparison, the details of the number of journals and the mean IFs
for these subject categories are presented in Table 4.
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Table 4
Mean IF of Selected Subject Categories
S# Subject Category Journals Mean IF 2011
1 Agriculture, Multidisciplinary 57 0.78
2 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary 154 3.00
3 Medicine, General & Internal 155 2.53
4 Pharmacology & Pharmacy 261 5.71
5 Plant Sciences 190 1.96
6 Statistics and Probability 116 1.05
7 Veterinary Sciences 145 0.94
8 Zoology 146 1.30

From Table 5, this may be noted that making comparison among various subjects is
not a realistic yard stick in ranking of the journals. For example there are 261 journals in
the subject category ‘Pharmacology & Pharmacy’ is 5.71, whereas such there are only 4
journals in ‘Statistics and Probability’ that has an IF more than 3. Therefore, we should
be cautious in making comparison among the journals falling in different subject
categorizers. A more realistic approach would be to compare the IF of a journal with the
mean IF journal of its own subject category. Future research may further analyze this
point.

REFERENCE
1. Journal Citations Report (2010), ISI Web of Knowledge, (June, 2011).
2. Journal Citations Report (2011), ISI Web of Knowledge, (June, 2012).
3. Qadeer, F. and Ahmad, M. (2012). Contribution of Pakistan Journal of Statistics in
‘Statistics and Probability’ Literature: An analysis based on the Journal Citation
Report (2010). Pak. J. Statist., 28(3), 409-423.
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APPENDIX A

List of Impact Factor Journals in the Subject Category ‘Statistics and Probability’
3-Years
S# Name of Journal Impact Factor Country
2010 2011
1 Advances in Applied Probability* 0.72 0.68 England
2 Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 0.58 0.56 Germany
ALEA-Latin American Journal of Probability and
3 - 0.38 Germany
Mathematical Statistics
4 American Statistician 0.98 0.96 USA
Annals de L Institute Henri Poincare-Probabilites Et
5 0.76 0.90 France
Statistiques*
6 Annals of Applied Probability 1.12 1.09 USA
7 Annals of Applied Statistics 1.75 1.58 USA
8 Annals of Probability 1.47 1.79 USA
9 Annals of Statistics 2.94 3.03 USA
10 Annals of The Institute of Statistical Mathematics 0.97 0.86 Japan
11 Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 0.83 0.69 England
12 AStA-Advances in Statistical Analysis 0.69 0.44 Germany
13 Astin Bulletin 0.71 0.49 Belgium
14 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 0.62 0.44 Australia
15 Bayesian Analysis 1.21 1.65 USA
16 Bernoulli 1.00 1.05 Netherlands
17 Biometrical Journal 1.44 1.25 Germany
18 Biometrics* 1.76 1.83 USA
19 Biometrika 1.83 1.91 England
20 Biostatistics 2.77 2.15 England
21 Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics - 0.26 Brazil
British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical
22 1.42 1.31 England
Psychology
Canadian Journal of Statistics-Revue Canadienne de
23 0.69 0.67 USA
Statistique*
24 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 2.22 1.92 Netherlands
25 Combinatorics Probability & Computing 0.99 0.78 USA
Communications in Statistics-Simulation and
26 0.34 0.39 USA
Computation
27 Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 0.35 0.27 USA
28 Computational Statistics 0.50 0.28 Germany
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3-Years
S# Name of Journal Impact Factor Country
2010 2011
29 Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 1.09 1.03 Netherlands
30 Econometric Reviews 1.09 0.78 USA
31 Econometric Theory 1.02 0.86 USA
32 Econometrica 3.19 2.98 England
33 Econometrics Journal 0.69 0.87 England
34 Electronic Communications in Probability 0.56 0.53 USA
35 Electronic Journal of Probability 0.95 0.71 USA
36 Electronic Journal of Statistics 1.03 1.15 USA
37 Environmental and Ecological Statistics 1.65 1.31 Netherlands
38 Environmetrics 0.75 1.06 England
39 ESAIM-Probability and Statistics - 0.27 France
40 Extremes 1.05 1.26 USA
41 Finance and Stochastics 1.33 1.20 Germany
42 Fuzzy Sets and Systems 1.88 1.76 Netherlands
43 Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics 0.39 0.35 Turkey
IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology
44 1.66 1.54 USA
and Bioinformatics
Infinite Dimensional Analysis Quantum Probability
45 0.57 0.70 Singapore
and Related Topics
46 Insurance Mathematics & Economics* 1.18 1.29 Netherlands
International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical
47 0.04 0.01 India
Sciences
48 International Journal of Game Theory 0.59 0.30 Germany
49 International Statistics Review* 0.86 0.54 England
Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental
50 0.72 1.21 USA
Statistics
51 Journal of American Statistical Association 2.06 1.99 USA
52 Journal of Applied Probability* 0.77 0.63 England
53 Journal of Applied Statistics 0.31 0.41 England
54 Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 1.07 1.34 USA
55 Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 1.69 1.78 USA
56 Journal of Chemometrics 1.38 1.95 England
57 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 1.21 1.06 USA
58 Journal of Computational Biology 1.60 1.55 USA
59 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 1.01 0.88 USA
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3-Years
S# Name of Journal Impact Factor Country
2010 2011
60 Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 0.46 0.46 England
61 Journal of Official Statistics 0.49 0.33 Sweden
62 Journal of Quality Technology 1.38 1.56 USA
63 Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 0.47 0.50 England
64 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 0.69 0.72 Netherlands
65 Journal of Statistical Software 2.65 4.01 USA
South
66 Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 0.33 0.47
Korea
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B-
67 3.50 3.65 England
Statistical Methodology
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A-
68 2.57 2.11 England
Statistics in Society
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-
69 0.65 0.83 England
Applied Statistics
70 Journal of Theoretical Probability 0.60 0.68 Belgium
71 Journal of Time Series Analysis 0.68 0.76 England
72 Lifetime Data Analysis 0.87 0.92 Netherlands
73 Mathematical Population Studies 0.59 0.24 USA
74 Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 0.77 0.75 USA
75 Metrika 0.58 0.67 Germany
76 Multivariate Behavioral Research 1.29 1.41 USA
77 Open Systems & Information Dynamics 1.57 1.17 Netherlands
78 Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 1.18 1.00 England
79 Pakistan Journal of Statistics 0.16 0.29 Pakistan
80 Pharmaceutical Statistics 1.63 2.07 England
81 Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 1.25 1.25 England
Probability in The Engineering and Informational
82 0.97 0.64 USA
Sciences
83 Probability Theory and Related Fields 1.59 1.53 Germany
84 Quality & Quantity 0.69 0.77 Netherlands
85 Quality Engineering - 0.75 USA
86 Quality Technology and Quantitative Management - 0.28 Taiwan
87 Revista Colombiana de Estadistica 0.06 0.06 Colombia
88 REVSTAT-Statistical Journal 0.73 0.13 Portugal
89 Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 0.61 0.50 England
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3-Years
S# Name of Journal Impact Factor Country
2010 2011
90 Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 0.84 1.12 England
SORT-Statistics and Operations Research
91 0.25 0.43 Spain
Transactions
92 Stata Journal 2.00 2.22 USA
93 Statistica Neerlandica 0.32 0.50 Netherlands
94 Statistica Sincia 0.96 1.02 Taiwan
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular
95 1.84 1.52 USA
Biology
96 Statistical Methods and Applications 0.37 0.41 Germany
97 Statistical Methods in Medical Research 1.77 2.44 England
98 Statistical Modeling 0.71 0.90 England
99 Statistical Papers 0.60 0.59 Germany
100 Statistical Science 2.48 3.04 USA
101 Statistics 0.52 0.72 Germany
102 Statistics & Probability Letters 0.44 0.50 Netherlands
103 Statistics and Computing 1.85 1.43 Netherlands
104 Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research - 0.54 USA
105 Statistics in Medicine 2.33 1.88 England
106 Stochastic Analysis and Applications 0.42 0.46 USA
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk
107 1.78 1.52 Germany
Assessment
108 Stochastic Models 0.45 0.67 USA
109 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 0.95 1.01 Netherlands
110 Stochastics and Dynamics 0.71 0.75 Singapore
Stochastics-An International Journal of Probability
111 0.37 0.48 England
and Stochastic Processes
112 Survey Methodology 0.55 0.93 Canada
113 Technometrics 1.56 1.25 USA
114 Tests 1.04 1.13 Spain
115 Theory of Probability And Its Applications 0.32 0.40 Russia
116 Utilitas Mathematica* 0.74 0.14 Canada
* A Multi-Language Journal (all other journals are in English Language)