American Statistician

Aims & Scope

Are you looking for general-interest articles about: current national and international statistical problems and programs, interesting and fun articles of a general nature about statistics and its applications, or the teaching of statistics?

Then you are looking for The American Statistician ( TAS ), published quarterly by the American Statistical Association.

TAS contains timely articles organized into the following sections: Statistical Practice, General, Teacher's Corner, Statistical Computing and Graphics, Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials, Letters to the Editor, History Corner, and Interdisciplinary.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1
2024	1.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.775

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7073

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	334

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Decision Sciences and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The ASA Statement on <i>p</i>-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose

  Citation: 4810

  Authors: Ronald L., Nicole A.

• Constructing a Control Group Using Multivariate Matched Sampling Methods That Incorporate the Propensity Score

  Citation: 4637

  Authors: Paul R., Donald B.

• An Introduction to Kernel and Nearest-Neighbor Nonparametric Regression

  Citation: 4346

  Authors: N. S.

• Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm

  Citation: 2887

  Authors: Siddhartha, Edward

• Rank Transformations as a Bridge between Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics

  Citation: 2762

  Authors: W. J., Ronald L.

• A Leisurely Look at the Bootstrap, the Jackknife, and Cross-Validation

  Citation: 2386

  Authors: Bradley, Gail

• Moving to a World Beyond “ <i>p</i>  &lt; 0.05”

  Citation: 2241

  Authors: Ronald L., Allen L., Nicole A.

• Thirteen Ways to Look at the Correlation Coefficient

  Citation: 1960

  Authors: Joseph Lee, W. Alan

• Variations of Box Plots

  Citation: 1917

  Authors: Robert, John W., Wayne A.

• Explaining the Gibbs Sampler

  Citation: 1691

  Authors: George, Edward I.

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