Journal of the American Statistical Association

*Journal of the American Statistical Association*
Discipline	Statistics
Language	English
Edited by	Michael Stein
Publication details
Former name(s)	Publications of the American Statistical Association; Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association
History	1888–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American Statistical Association (USA)
Frequency	quarterly
Impact factor	3.7 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Am. Stat. Assoc.
MathSciNet	J. Amer. Statist. Assoc.
Indexing;
ISSN	0162-1459 (print); 1537-274X (web);
LCCN	sn99-23377
JSTOR	01621459
OCLC no.	1480864
Links
	Journal homepage;

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 in March, June, September and December by Taylor & Francis, Ltd on behalf of the American Statistical Association.

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As a statistics journal it publishes articles primarily focused on the application of statistics, statistical theory and methods in economic, social, physical, engineering, and health sciences. The journal also includes reviews of academic books which are important to the advancement of the field.^[1]

It had an impact factor of 2.063 in 2010, tenth highest in the "Statistics and Probability" category of Journal Citation Reports.^[2]

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".^[3]

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.^[1]