Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Series A (Statistics in Society) publishes high quality papers that demonstrate how statistical thinking, design and analyses play a vital role in all walks of life and benefit society in general. There is no restriction on subject-matter: any interesting, topical and revelatory applications of statistics are welcome. For example, important applications of statistical and related data science methodology in medicine, business and commerce, industry, economics and finance, education and teaching, physical and biomedical sciences, the environment, the law, government and politics, demography, psychology, sociology and sport all fall within the journal's remit. The journal is therefore aimed at a wide statistical audience and at professional statisticians in particular. Its emphasis is on well-written and clearly reasoned quantitative approaches to problems in the real world rather than the exposition of technical detail. Thus, although the methodological basis of papers must be sound and adequately explained, methodology per se should not be the main focus of a Series A paper. Of particular interest are papers on topical or contentious statistical issues, papers which give reviews or exposés of current statistical concerns and papers which demonstrate how appropriate statistical thinking has contributed to our understanding of important substantive questions. Historical, professional and biographical contributions are also welcome, as are discussions of methods of data collection and of ethical issues, provided that all such papers have substantial statistical relevance.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Economics and Econometrics	1999	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2000	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2001	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2002	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2003	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2004	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2005	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2006	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2007	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2008	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2009	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2010	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2011	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2012	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2013	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2014	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2015	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2016	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2017	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2018	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2019	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2020	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2021	Q1
Economics and Econometrics	2022	Q2
Economics and Econometrics	2023	Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	1999	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2000	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2001	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2002	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2003	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2004	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2005	Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2006	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2007	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2008	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2009	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2010	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2011	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2012	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2013	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2014	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2015	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2016	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2017	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2018	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2019	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2020	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2021	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2022	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2023	Q1
Statistics and Probability	1999	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2000	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2001	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2002	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2003	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2004	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2005	Q3
Statistics and Probability	2006	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2007	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2008	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2009	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2010	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2011	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2012	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2013	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2014	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2015	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2016	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2017	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2018	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2019	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2020	Q2
Statistics and Probability	2021	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2022	Q1
Statistics and Probability	2023	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	1999	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2000	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2001	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2002	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2003	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2004	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2005	Q4
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2006	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2007	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2008	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2009	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2010	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2011	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2012	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2013	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2014	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2015	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2016	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2017	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2018	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2019	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2020	Q2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2021	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2022	Q1
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	2023	Q2

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	2.019
2000	1.481
2001	1.092
2002	1.229
2003	0.876
2004	0.892
2005	0.454
2006	0.936
2007	1.227
2008	1.151
2009	1.383
2010	1.821
2011	2.031
2012	1.485
2013	1.697
2014	1.175
2015	1.122
2016	1.497
2017	1.982
2018	1.690
2019	1.529
2020	1.103
2021	1.191
2022	0.971
2023	0.775

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	23
2000	23
2001	32
2002	35
2003	30
2004	39
2005	37
2006	49
2007	51
2008	45
2009	42
2010	41
2011	53
2012	41
2013	47
2014	44
2015	48
2016	45
2017	56
2018	50
2019	68
2020	76
2021	91
2022	167
2023	53

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	1.753
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	1.860
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	1.548
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	1.431
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	1.487
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	1.633
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	1.463
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	1.539
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	1.768
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	2.125
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	2.549
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	2.684
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	2.816
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	2.950
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	3.299
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	2.214
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	2.422
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	2.606
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	3.060
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	2.461
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	3.141
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	2.493
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	2.596
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	2.505
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	1.881
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	1.753
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	1.471
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	1.571
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	1.577
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	1.322
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	1.423
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	1.202
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	1.651
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	1.824
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	2.241
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	2.269
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	2.674
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	2.789
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	2.772
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	2.289
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	2.106
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	2.492
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	2.640
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	2.599
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	2.570
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	2.742
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	2.385
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	2.500
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	2.323
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	1.542
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.894
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	1.383
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	1.826
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	1.527
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	1.060
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.938
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	1.145
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	1.750
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	2.047
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	1.910
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	2.125
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	2.701
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	2.675
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	1.638
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	1.926
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	2.170
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	2.308
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	2.185
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	2.860
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	2.050
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	2.340
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	2.161
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	2.292
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	1.695
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	1.202

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	13
Self Cites	2000	5
Self Cites	2001	6
Self Cites	2002	3
Self Cites	2003	5
Self Cites	2004	11
Self Cites	2005	5
Self Cites	2006	12
Self Cites	2007	11
Self Cites	2008	7
Self Cites	2009	14
Self Cites	2010	24
Self Cites	2011	15
Self Cites	2012	12
Self Cites	2013	15
Self Cites	2014	6
Self Cites	2015	6
Self Cites	2016	13
Self Cites	2017	10
Self Cites	2018	9
Self Cites	2019	18
Self Cites	2020	14
Self Cites	2021	19
Self Cites	2022	26
Self Cites	2023	8
Total Cites	1999	135
Total Cites	2000	103
Total Cites	2001	110
Total Cites	2002	123
Total Cites	2003	119
Total Cites	2004	138
Total Cites	2005	125
Total Cites	2006	175
Total Cites	2007	228
Total Cites	2008	307
Total Cites	2009	329
Total Cites	2010	369
Total Cites	2011	357
Total Cites	2012	377
Total Cites	2013	309
Total Cites	2014	297
Total Cites	2015	329
Total Cites	2016	367
Total Cites	2017	356
Total Cites	2018	383
Total Cites	2019	414
Total Cites	2020	415
Total Cites	2021	485
Total Cites	2022	546
Total Cites	2023	515

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	1.584
External Cites per document	2000	1.400
External Cites per document	2001	1.486
External Cites per document	2002	1.538
External Cites per document	2003	1.267
External Cites per document	2004	1.309
External Cites per document	2005	1.154
External Cites per document	2006	1.538
External Cites per document	2007	1.736
External Cites per document	2008	2.190
External Cites per document	2009	2.172
External Cites per document	2010	2.500
External Cites per document	2011	2.672
External Cites per document	2012	2.684
External Cites per document	2013	2.178
External Cites per document	2014	2.064
External Cites per document	2015	2.447
External Cites per document	2016	2.547
External Cites per document	2017	2.526
External Cites per document	2018	2.510
External Cites per document	2019	2.623
External Cites per document	2020	2.305
External Cites per document	2021	2.402
External Cites per document	2022	2.213
External Cites per document	2023	1.518
Cites per document	1999	1.753
Cites per document	2000	1.471
Cites per document	2001	1.571
Cites per document	2002	1.577
Cites per document	2003	1.322
Cites per document	2004	1.423
Cites per document	2005	1.202
Cites per document	2006	1.651
Cites per document	2007	1.824
Cites per document	2008	2.241
Cites per document	2009	2.269
Cites per document	2010	2.674
Cites per document	2011	2.789
Cites per document	2012	2.772
Cites per document	2013	2.289
Cites per document	2014	2.106
Cites per document	2015	2.492
Cites per document	2016	2.640
Cites per document	2017	2.599
Cites per document	2018	2.570
Cites per document	2019	2.742
Cites per document	2020	2.385
Cites per document	2021	2.500
Cites per document	2022	2.323
Cites per document	2023	1.542

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	13.04
2000	13.04
2001	28.13
2002	17.14
2003	13.33
2004	25.64
2005	37.84
2006	24.49
2007	23.53
2008	22.22
2009	19.05
2010	24.39
2011	45.28
2012	39.02
2013	29.79
2014	43.18
2015	27.08
2016	42.22
2017	33.93
2018	46.00
2019	38.24
2020	35.53
2021	28.57
2022	29.34
2023	24.53

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	0
Non-citable documents	2000	0
Non-citable documents	2001	0
Non-citable documents	2002	0
Non-citable documents	2003	7
Non-citable documents	2004	10
Non-citable documents	2005	19
Non-citable documents	2006	12
Non-citable documents	2007	13
Non-citable documents	2008	6
Non-citable documents	2009	9
Non-citable documents	2010	7
Non-citable documents	2011	12
Non-citable documents	2012	11
Non-citable documents	2013	10
Non-citable documents	2014	6
Non-citable documents	2015	8
Non-citable documents	2016	8
Non-citable documents	2017	7
Non-citable documents	2018	7
Non-citable documents	2019	7
Non-citable documents	2020	5
Non-citable documents	2021	2
Non-citable documents	2022	18
Non-citable documents	2023	28
Citable documents	1999	77
Citable documents	2000	70
Citable documents	2001	70
Citable documents	2002	78
Citable documents	2003	83
Citable documents	2004	87
Citable documents	2005	85
Citable documents	2006	94
Citable documents	2007	112
Citable documents	2008	131
Citable documents	2009	136
Citable documents	2010	131
Citable documents	2011	116
Citable documents	2012	125
Citable documents	2013	125
Citable documents	2014	135
Citable documents	2015	124
Citable documents	2016	131
Citable documents	2017	130
Citable documents	2018	142
Citable documents	2019	144
Citable documents	2020	169
Citable documents	2021	192
Citable documents	2022	217
Citable documents	2023	306

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	32
Uncited documents	2000	19
Uncited documents	2001	24
Uncited documents	2002	26
Uncited documents	2003	41
Uncited documents	2004	52
Uncited documents	2005	50
Uncited documents	2006	51
Uncited documents	2007	49
Uncited documents	2008	53
Uncited documents	2009	45
Uncited documents	2010	44
Uncited documents	2011	40
Uncited documents	2012	40
Uncited documents	2013	44
Uncited documents	2014	52
Uncited documents	2015	42
Uncited documents	2016	40
Uncited documents	2017	44
Uncited documents	2018	50
Uncited documents	2019	43
Uncited documents	2020	65
Uncited documents	2021	64
Uncited documents	2022	82
Uncited documents	2023	155
Cited documents	1999	45
Cited documents	2000	51
Cited documents	2001	46
Cited documents	2002	52
Cited documents	2003	49
Cited documents	2004	45
Cited documents	2005	54
Cited documents	2006	55
Cited documents	2007	76
Cited documents	2008	84
Cited documents	2009	100
Cited documents	2010	94
Cited documents	2011	88
Cited documents	2012	96
Cited documents	2013	91
Cited documents	2014	89
Cited documents	2015	90
Cited documents	2016	99
Cited documents	2017	93
Cited documents	2018	99
Cited documents	2019	108
Cited documents	2020	109
Cited documents	2021	130
Cited documents	2022	153
Cited documents	2023	179

% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

Year	Female Percent
1999	19.15
2000	37.50
2001	27.54
2002	15.00
2003	12.73
2004	29.37
2005	21.10
2006	28.18
2007	21.76
2008	23.21
2009	29.00
2010	29.89
2011	26.09
2012	25.21
2013	24.55
2014	32.46
2015	31.25
2016	23.73
2017	32.67
2018	35.71
2019	32.60
2020	30.00
2021	29.00
2022	26.77
2023	28.26

Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

Documents	Year	Value
Overton	1999	0
Overton	2000	3
Overton	2001	1
Overton	2002	1
Overton	2003	0
Overton	2004	3
Overton	2005	0
Overton	2006	0
Overton	2007	0
Overton	2008	0
Overton	2009	0
Overton	2010	0
Overton	2011	0
Overton	2012	0
Overton	2013	1
Overton	2014	16
Overton	2015	21
Overton	2016	28
Overton	2017	25
Overton	2018	20
Overton	2019	19
Overton	2020	14
Overton	2021	8
Overton	2022	13
Overton	2023	1