Stats

Stats is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on statistical science published bimonthly online by MDPI. The journal focuses on methodological and theoretical papers in statistics, probability, stochastic processes and innovative applications of statistics in all scientific disciplines including biological and biomedical sciences, medicine, business, economics and social sciences, physics, data science and engineering.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, RePEc, and other databases.
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 22.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.9 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Journal Cluster of Artificial Intelligence: AI, AI in Medicine, Algorithms, BDCC, MAKE, MTI, Stats, Virtual Worlds, Computers and Journal of Superintelligence.