The R Journal

The R Journal  
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
 R J.
Discipline Statistical computing
Language English
Edited by Michael Lawrence
Publication details
Publisher
The R Foundation (Austria)
Publication history
 2009–Present
Frequency Half-yearly
1.038
Indexing
ISSN 2073-4859
Links

The R Journal is an online, open-access, refereed journal published by The R Foundation[1] since 2009. The journal publishes research articles in statistical computing that are of interest to users of the R programming language. The journal is entirely free: it does not charge authors for publication nor are there fees for subscription. 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 fore-shadowing new development directions for R.[2]

The R Journal publishes short to medium length research articles. Articles may describe innovations in the R system itself, new R software packages or statistical computing theory implemented in R. Articles in The R Journal are often the primary references for the associated packages, for example for the core grid graphics packages or for parallel processing.[3] The journal also publishes articles on best-practice and innovation in modelling, for example in multivariate statistics[4] 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.

The journal is indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge.[5] Despite including many non-citable news articles, it had a 2014 impact factor of 1.038 and a 5-year IF of 1.455. In this regard, it is ranked 5th out of 9 journals in computational statistics. Google Scholar Metrics give the R Journal an h5-index of 15 and an h5-median of 27.[6]

The current editor in chief is Michael Lawrence. Past editors-in-chief were Vince Carey (2009), Peter Dalgaard (2010), Heather Turner (2011), Martyn Plummer (2012), Hadley Wickham (2013), Deepayan Sarkar (2014) and Bettina Grün (2015). Each editor in chief serves for one year and two issues.

References

  1. ↑ "The R Foundation". Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Chambers, John M. (2009). "Facets of R: Special invited paper on "The Future of R"" (PDF). The R Journal. Retrieved 25 Feb 2016.
  3. ↑ Jochen Knaus; Christine Porzelius; Harald Binder; Guido Schwarzer (2009). "Easier Parallel Computing in R with snowfall and sfCluster" (PDF). The R Journal. Retrieved 25 Feb 2016.
  4. ↑ John Fox; Michael Friendly & Sanford Weisberg (2013). "Hypothesis Tests for Multivariate Linear Models Using the car Package." (PDF). The R Journal. Retrieved 27 Feb 2016.
  5. ↑ "CAP". admin-apps.webofknowledge.com. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  6. ↑ "Metrics for R Journal". Google Scholar. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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