The Journal of Statistical Software was founded by Jan
de Leeuw in 1996.  Currently, there are 26 volumes with 260
aricles and the journal publishes about 4 new volumes
per year. The web address is www.jstatsoft.org. All
articles are pdf files, since 2005 all produced from
JSS LaTeX templates.

JSS is edited by Jan de Leeuw, since
2005 jointly with Achim Zeileis of the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.
Formally, since 2004, the publisher is the American Statistical  
Association,
but all editorial and IT work is done at UCLA Statistics. JSS
is a Ruby on Rails interface to a PostgreSQL database, maintained
by Jose Hales Garcia of UCLA Statistics. The journal is hosted on
the UCLA Statistics servers.

JSS is now the computational statistics journal with the
highest Thomson ISI impact factor (13th place out of 91
statistics journals) and the highest immediacy index
(2nd place out of 91 statistics journals).

                     ImpFac IF-Rank ImInd II-Rank Articles TotCites
J STAT SOFTW         1.621      13 0.767       2       60      302
J COMPUT GRAPH STAT  1.316      22 0.114      50       44     1454
COMPUT STAT DATA AN  1.029      34 0.307      14      394     1737
COMPUTATION STAT     0.153      91 0.000      83       42      150
STATA J              1.433      18 0.231      25       26      348

The journal gets about 15K hits per day (4M per year). Popular
new articles are downloaded about 2000 times in their first
year. The journal is indexed and/or listed in Web of Science, Current  
Index of
Statistics, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals,
IDEAS, Scopus, BibTeX Database. JSS is a certified Open Access Journal,
publishing all articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license
and all code under the Creative Commons GPL.

About 75% of the JSS publications describe R packages. Recent special
volumes are

Vol 18 -- Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in R
Vol 20 -- Psychometrics in R
Vol 22 -- Ecology and Ecological Modeling in R
Vol 24 -- Statistical Modeling of Social Networks with "statnet"
Vol 27 -- Econometrics in R (in press)
Vol ?? -- Political Methodology in R (in preparation)

Additional volumes on "Spatial Statistics in R" and "Geostatistics
in R" and "Medical Imaging in R" are in the planning stages.

Suggestions are always welcome.


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Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of  
Statistics;
Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES);
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software;
US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
.mac: jdeleeuw ++++++  aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw
homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org
   
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