The R Journal

The R Journal

Discipline	Statistical computing
Language	English
Edited by	Mark van der Loo
Publication details
History	2009–present
Publisher	The R Foundation (Austria)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY 4.0
Impact factor	2.3 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	R J.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	2073-4859
OCLC no.	920403881
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The R Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by The R Foundation since 2009.^[1] It publishes research articles in statistical computing that are of interest to users of the R programming language. The journal includes a News and Notes section that supersedes the R News newsletter, which was published from 2001 to 2008.

The journal serves a dual role as a research journal in statistical computing and as the official newsletter of the R Project. It publishes regular news updates about The R Foundation, the CRAN repository system, and the Bioconductor project. It also published articles foreshadowing new development directions for R.^[2]

The journal also publishes articles on best-practice and innovation in modelling, for example in multivariate statistics or multi-level modelling. A feature of the journal is the inclusion in articles of complete code by which readers can reproduce results and examples.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.^[3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.3.^[4]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: Vince Carey (2009), Peter Dalgaard (2010), Heather Turner (2011), Martyn Plummer (2012), Hadley Wickham (2013), Deepayan Sarkar (2014), Bettina Grün (2015), Michael Lawrence (2016), Roger Bivand (2017), John Verzani (2018), Norman Matloff (2019), Michael Kane (2020), Dianne Cook (2021), Catherine Hurley (2022), Simon Urbanek (2023), and Mark van der Loo (current).

References

1. "The R Foundation". Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
2. Chambers, John M. (2009). "Facets of R: Special invited paper on "The Future of R"" (PDF). The R Journal. doi:10.32614/RJ-2009-008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 25 Feb 2016.
3. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Archived from the original on 2020-06-20. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
4. "R Journal". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.

External links

• Official website