Abbreviated title (ISO 4) JASA Language English Frequency quarterly | Discipline Statistics Publication history 1888–present | |
Publisher American Statistical Association (USA) | ||
The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) is the primary journal published by the American Statistical Association, the main professional body for statisticians in the United States. It is published four times a year.
It had an impact factor of 2.063 in 2010, tenth highest in the "Statistics and Probability" category of Journal Citation Reports.
In a 2003 survey of statisticians, the Journal of the American Statistical Association was ranked first, among all journals, for "Applications of Statistics" and second (after Annals of Statistics) for "Mathematical Statistics".
The predecessor of this journal started in 1888 with the name Publications of the American Statistical Association. It became Quarterly publications of the American Statistical Association in 1912, and JASA in 1922.