About the Journal
There are no restrictions on the area of statistics considered by Biometrika. The three primary criteria by which all papers are judged are:
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importance of the work to the understanding, practice or potential practice of statistics;
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the degree of conceptual novelty and insight;
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the conciseness and clarity with which the ideas are conveyed.
The novelty may take many forms, including: the development of new methodology accompanied by an insightful analysis; papers where the innovation is around computational efficiency, where this is important for the application of the statistical method; a penetrating exposition of anomalous or unforeseen behaviour of mainstream inferential tools; original formulations uncovering foundational structure with potential relevance to statistical practice. Papers concerned purely with sampling properties of existing procedures or minor developments thereof are typically unsuitable unless such properties reveal considerable structural understanding. We do not publish purely applied work.
Biometrika publishes three types of paper: regular papers, synthesis papers (both normally fewer than 20 pages) and miscellanea articles (max. 8 pages). Miscellanea papers are not expected to have the breadth of contribution of regular papers but need to meet the same standards in terms of importance of the work, novelty of the insights, and general quality. Synthesis papers should either open up an emerging area outside of statistics to a statistical audience, assuming that area will be important to statistics, or be a synthesis of two or more areas of statistics that brings fundamental new insight.
A full list of the Biometrika Trustees can be found on the Biometrika Trust webpage.
Impact Factor and Ranking
| Year | Impact Factor | Si: Statistics & Probability | Si: Mathematical & Computational Biology |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.4 | 22 out of 168 | 25 out of 66 |
| 2022 | 2.7 | 42 out of 92 | 23 out of 55 |
| 2021 | 3.028 | 20 out of 125 | 24 out of 57 |
| 2020 | 2.445 | 32 out of 125 | 25 out of 58 |
| 2019 | 1.632 | 41 out of 124 | 38 out of 59 |
Source: Journal Impact Factor™, from Clarivate, 2024
Abstracting and Indexing Services
Biometrika is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:
Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
Biological Abstracts
American Mathematical Society
Biological and Agricultural Index
BIOSIS Previews
CAB Abstracts
Crop Physiology Abstracts
Current Contents® /Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
Current Contents® /Life Sciences
Current Contents® /Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
Current Index to Statistics
Forestry Abstracts
Global Health
Helminthology Abstracts
Horticultural Abstracts
Index Veterinarius
Journal Citation Reports /Science Edition
Mathematical Reviews (MR)
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews
PROQUEST DATABASE : ABI/INFORM Complete
PROQUEST DATABASE : ABI/INFORM Global
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest 5000
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest 5000 International
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Central
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest International Academic Research Library
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Pharma Collection
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Research Library
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Science Journals
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Wilson Databases
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®)
Science Citation Index®
Statistical Theory & Method Abstracts (STMA-Z)
The Standard Periodical Directory
Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Veterinary Bulletin
World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts
Zentralblatt Math
