Pharmaceutical Statistics: Journal & Metrics

Pharmaceutical Statistics: The Journal of Applied Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry is a peer-reviewed academic journal published bi-monthly by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry). It receives an annual Journal Impact Factor (JIF) published by Clarivate in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), reflecting the ratio of citations received in a given year to citable research articles and reviews published during the preceding two calendar years.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 7 Nov 2026

What is the Pharmaceutical Statistics journal?

Society: PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry), an international society for statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry.
Publisher: Wiley (Chichester, UK).
First issue: Volume 1, number 1, June 2002.
ISSN: print 1539-1604; electronic 1539-1612. The NLM Catalog notes that print issues ceased with volume 13 (2014) and that the journal is also issued online.
NLM title abbreviation: Pharm Stat.
Indexing: the NLM Catalog lists the journal as indexed for MEDLINE and PubMed.

What is the Pharmaceutical Statistics impact factor?

The Journal Impact Factor is a two-year ratio. It divides the citations received in a given JCR data year by articles and reviews the journal published in the previous two calendar years, by the number of citable items from those two years. Clarivate publishes it annually in the Journal Citation Reports, and the value changes from year to year. Quote the figure together with its JCR year, and take it from the Journal Citation Reports or the journal’s own Wiley page rather than from a third-party list.

How does CiteScore differ from the impact factor?

CiteScore is Elsevier’s Scopus-based metric. It uses a four-year citation window, against the two-year window of the JIF, so the two numbers are not interchangeable and should not be compared directly.

Should the journal’s impact factor be used to judge a paper or a researcher?

No. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recommends against using journal-level metrics such as the JIF as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles or of an individual’s contributions. A methodological paper can be highly useful to statisticians and reviewers while collecting fewer citations than a broad review. Research administrators and hiring committees are better served by looking at the work itself: methodological soundness, reproducibility, and code and data availability.

Frequently asked questions

Who publishes Pharmaceutical Statistics?

Wiley publishes it, and the NLM Catalog links it to PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry).

Where is Pharmaceutical Statistics indexed?

The NLM Catalog lists it as indexed for MEDLINE and PubMed. For other databases, check the journal’s Wiley page.

Where do I find the current impact factor?

In Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports, which is the source of the JIF, or on the journal’s Wiley page.

Sources

Checked 2026-11-07.

NLM Catalog, Pharmaceutical statistics (NLM ID 101201192): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101201192
Wiley Online Library, Pharmaceutical Statistics: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15391612
PSI, Pharmaceutical Statistics Journal: https://www.psiweb.org/publications/pharmaceutical-statistics
DORA, San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment: https://sfdora.org/read/

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