| Journal of Statistical Software | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | J STAT SOFTW |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Jan de Leeuw |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | American Statistical Association (United States) |
| Publication history | 1996-present |
| Open access | Yes |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution License; GNU GPL (for code) |
| Impact factor (2009) |
2.320 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1548-7660 |
| OCLC number | 42456366 |
| Links | |
The Journal of Statistical Software is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistical software. It is edited by UCLA statistician Jan de Leeuw and published by the American Statistical Association.
The journal publishes user's guides and other forms of description of statistical software, together with the source code of the actual software in human-readable form. It also publishes reviews of statistical software and books (by invitation only). Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, while the source codes distributed with articles are licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Articles are often about free statistical software and coverage includes packages for the R programming language.
The Journal of Statistical Software is indexed in the Current Index to Statistics and the Science Citation Index Expanded.