The American Statistician: Metrics & Scope

Q: What is the current Impact Factor of The American Statistician?

As of 2026-11-07, The American Statistician holds a 2-year Journal Impact Factor of 2.2 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 2.4 from Clarivate.

The American Statistician

The American Statistician is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1947 by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and published by Taylor & Francis. Covering statistical practice, pedagogy, computing, and methodology across statistical science, the journal held a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 2.2 and a Scopus CiteScore of 4.3 as recorded on 2026-11-07. Under DORA and CoARA assessment principles, its journal-level citation metrics serve as general indexing indicators rather than proxies for the quality of individual published articles.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 7 Nov 2026

Overview and Editorial Scope

Established in 1947, The American Statistician serves as a central forum for statisticians, data scientists, educators, and quantitative researchers. It covers statistical practice, teaching, and computing. Its sections include Statistical Practice, Teacher’s Corner, Statistical Computing and Graphics, and General. The journal also published the 2016 ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose (volume 70).

Journal Metrics and Calculation

Citation performance for The American Statistician is tracked through major international indexing databases:

Journal Impact Factor (JIF): Published annually by Clarivate in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the 2-year JIF represents the ratio of citations received in a given year to citable items (articles and reviews) published in the preceding two years. As of 2026-11-07, the journal’s 2-year JIF is 2.2, with a 5-year JIF of 2.4.
CiteScore: Published by Elsevier through Scopus, CiteScore calculates citations received over a four-year window divided by documents published in those same four years. The journal holds a CiteScore of 4.3.
Subject Categories: The journal is listed in the Statistics & Probability category of Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports.

Responsible Metrics and Evaluation

In accordance with the DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), journal-level metrics must be interpreted with caution. The 2-year JIF reflects aggregate journal citation volume rather than the scientific quality, reproducibility, or methodological validity of an individual paper. Because The American Statistician publishes several kinds of article, from teaching notes to methodological papers, a single journal-level figure says little about any one paper. Reviewers and appointment committees should assess manuscripts based on intrinsic research contributions rather than journal impact factors.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the current Impact Factor of The American Statistician?

As of 2026-11-07, The American Statistician holds a 2-year Journal Impact Factor of 2.2 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 2.4 from Clarivate.

Who publishes The American Statistician?

The journal is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American Statistical Association (ASA).

How does CiteScore differ from the Impact Factor for this journal?

Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor uses a two-year citation window covering articles and reviews, whereas Scopus’s CiteScore evaluates citations across a four-year window spanning all peer-reviewed document types, yielding a CiteScore of 4.3 for The American Statistician.

Should The American Statistician’s Impact Factor be used to assess faculty tenure?

No. Under DORA and CoARA standards, journal-level metrics should not serve as surrogate measures for the competence of individual researchers or the scientific merit of individual articles.

Sources

Taylor & Francis Online, The American Statistician, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utas20/current (checked 2026-11-07).
American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ (checked 2026-11-07).
Clarivate, Journal Citation Reports, https://clarivate.com/ (checked 2026-11-07).
Wasserstein and Lazar, The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose, The American Statistician 70 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108 (checked 2026-11-07).

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