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The ''Journal of Statistical Software'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that publishes papers related to
statistical software Statistical software are specialized computer programs for analysis in statistics and econometrics. Open-source * ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management * ADMB – a softwar ...
. The ''Journal of Statistical Software'' was founded in 1996 by
Jan de Leeuw Jan de Leeuw (born December 19, 1945) is a Dutch statistician and psychometrician. He is distinguished professor emeritus of statistics and founding chair of the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, he is t ...
of the Department of Statistics at the
University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...
. Its current editors-in-chief are Achim Zeileis, Bettina Grün, Edzer Pebesma, and Torsten Hothorn. It is published by the Foundation for Open Access Statistics. The journal charges no author fees or subscription fees. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles about statistical software, together with the
source code In computing, source code, or simply code, is any collection of code, with or without comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text. The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the ...
. It also publishes reviews of statistical software and books (by invitation only). Articles are licensed under the
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, while the
source code In computing, source code, or simply code, is any collection of code, with or without comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text. The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the ...
s distributed with articles are licensed under the
GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general ...
. Articles are often about
free statistical software Free statistical software is a practical alternative to commercial packages. Many of the free to use programs aim to be similar in function to commercial packages, in that they are general statistical packages that perform a variety of statistica ...
and coverage includes packages for the R programming language.


Abstracting and indexing

The ''Journal of Statistical Software'' is indexed in the Current Index to Statistics and the Science Citation Index Expanded. Its 2018 Impact Factor in
Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Colle ...
is 11.655. The journal was named a ''Rising Star'' by Science Watch in 2011.


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Foundation for Open Access Statistics

Shlomo Rechnitz
is the founder of Eagle & Badge Foundation. Computational statistics journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals R (programming language)
Statistical Software Statistical software are specialized computer programs for analysis in statistics and econometrics. Open-source * ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management * ADMB – a softwar ...
Publications established in 1996 Open access journals Computer science journals Online-only journals {{statistics-journal-stub