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Best Statistics and Probability journals

300 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Statistics and Probability. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 75 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Statistics Surveys 39.7 99th Q1 ESCI No
2 Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 18.8 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 International Journal of Forecasting 15.7 99th Q1 SSCI A No
4 Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2: Data Evaluation and Methods Research 15.4 98th Q1 No
5 Journal of Statistical Software 13.9 98th Q1 SCIE A Yes
6 Journal of Machine Learning Research 13.3 98th Q1 SCIE No
7 Weather and Climate Extremes 12.6 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Bioinformatics 11.1 97th Q1 SCIE A Yes
9 Scientific Data 9.6 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 9 96th Q1 SCIE No
11 Operations Research Perspectives 8.5 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
12 Annals of Statistics 8.3 96th Q1 SCIE A* No
13 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 7.8 95th Q1 SCIE B No
14 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology 7.6 95th Q1 SCIE A* No
15 Journal of the American Statistical Association 7.5 95th Q1 SCIE A* No
16 Quality and Quantity 7.5 94th Q1 B No
17 Computational Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences 7.5 94th Q1 Yes
18 Statistical Science 7.4 94th Q1 SCIE A No
19 International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence 7.2 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
20 Journal of Management Analytics 7.1 93th Q1 SSCI B No
21 International Journal of Climatology 7.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
22 Review of Economics and Political Science 6.9 92th Q1 ESCI C Yes
23 Fractal and Fractional 6.8 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
24 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 6.7 91th Q1 SCIE No
25 Frontiers in Bioinformatics 6.6 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
26 Journal of Finance and Data Science 6.5 91th Q1 ESCI B Yes
27 Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1: Programs and Collection Procedures 6.4 90th Q1 No
28 International Statistical Review 6.1 90th Q1 SCIE A No
29 EURO Journal on Decision Processes 6.1 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
30 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 5.9 89th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
31 Mathematical Sciences 5.9 89th Q1 SCIE No
32 Multivariate Behavioral Research 5.8 89th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
33 Forum of Mathematics, Pi 5.8 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 Econometrics and Statistics 5.6 88th Q1 ESCI B No
35 Methods, Data, Analyses 5.6 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
36 Biometrika 5.4 87th Q1 SCIE A* No
37 Spatial Statistics 5.4 87th Q1 SCIE No
38 Technometrics 5.3 87th Q1 SCIE A No
39 Advanced Theory and Simulations 5.3 86th Q1 SCIE No
40 SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science 5.2 86th Q1 SCIE No
41 Data-Centric Engineering 4.8 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
42 Data Science 4.7 85th Q1 Yes
43 Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 4.7 85th Q1 SCIE No
44 Data Science in Finance and Economics 4.5 85th Q1 ESCI Yes
45 Letters in Biomathematics 4.5 84th Q1 Yes
46 Probability Surveys 4.4 84th Q1 ESCI Yes
47 Bayesian Analysis 4.3 84th Q1 SCIE A Yes
48 American Statistician 4.3 83th Q1 SCIE B No
49 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education 4.3 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
50 Annals of Probability 4.2 83th Q1 SCIE A* No
51 Stata Journal 4.2 83th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
52 Dynamic Games and Applications 4.1 82th Q1 SCIE B No
53 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 4.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
54 Physical Review E 4.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
55 Empirical Economics 4.1 81th Q1 SSCI A No
56 Information and Inference 4.1 81th Q1 SCIE No
57 Journal of Behavioral Data Science 4.1 81th Q1 No
58 Biostatistics 4.1 80th Q1 SCIE A No
59 Environmental Data Science 4 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
60 Journal of Theoretical Biology 4 80th Q1 SCIE No
61 AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis 3.9 79th Q1 SCIE C No
62 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 3.9 79th Q1 SCIE No
63 Probability and Mathematical Physics 3.9 79th Q1 ESCI No
64 Statistics and Public Policy 3.9 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
65 Bernoulli 3.8 78th Q1 SCIE A No
66 Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research 3.8 78th Q1 ESCI No
67 Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 3.8 77th Q1 SCIE No
68 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 3.7 77th Q1 SCIE A* No
69 BioSystems 3.7 77th Q1 SCIE No
70 Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography 3.7 76th Q1 Yes
71 Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 3.7 76th Q1 SCIE No
72 Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 3.7 76th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
73 Annals of Applied Probability 3.6 75th Q1 SCIE A No
74 British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 3.6 75th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
75 Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics 3.6 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
76 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 3.6 74th Q2 SCIE A No
77 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society 3.6 74th Q2 SCIE, SSCI A No
78 Probability Theory and Related Fields 3.6 74th Q2 SCIE A* No
79 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 3.6 73th Q2 SCIE A No
80 Journal of Applied Statistics 3.6 73th Q2 SCIE B No
81 Biometrics 3.6 73th Q2 SCIE No
82 Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 3.5 72th Q2 SCIE, SSCI A* No
83 International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification 3.4 72th Q2 SCIE No
84 Journal of Complexity 3.4 72th Q2 SCIE No
85 Statistical Methods in Medical Research 3.4 71th Q2 SCIE B No
86 Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations 3.4 71th Q2 SCIE No
87 Theory in Biosciences 3.4 71th Q2 SCIE No
88 SIAM-ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification 3.4 70th Q2 SCIE No
89 Annals of Applied Statistics 3.3 70th Q2 SCIE A No
90 Journal of Causal Inference 3.3 70th Q2 SCIE, SSCI Yes
91 Environmental and Ecological Statistics 3.3 69th Q2 SCIE A No
92 Environmetrics 3.3 69th Q2 SCIE B No
93 International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems 3.3 69th Q2 ESCI No
94 Statistics in Medicine 3.2 68th Q2 SCIE A No
95 Mathematical Biosciences 3.2 68th Q2 SCIE No
96 Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 3.2 68th Q2 Yes
97 Journal of Econometric Methods 3.2 67th Q2 B No
98 Statistica Sinica 3.2 67th Q2 SCIE A No
99 Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research 3.2 67th Q2 SCIE No
100 Regional Statistics 3.2 66th Q2 ESCI No

Rank and percentile are within the Statistics and Probability Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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