Journal History

2018	The inaugural issue was released. Stats was published as a quarterly journal.
2020	Stats established the following sections: Applied Stochastic Models; Bayesian Methods; Bioinformatics; Biostatistics; Computational Statistics; Data Science; Ecological Statistics; Econometric Modelling; Financial Statistics; Multivariate Analysis; Reliability Engineering; Regression Models; Statistical Methods; Statistical Software; Survival Analysis; Time Series Analysis.
2022	Stats was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). Stats was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 2 (Issue 1).
2023	Stats received its first Impact Factor (1.3).
2026	Stats adopted a bimonthly publication schedule.

Editor-in-Chief

2018–2021	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro
2021–present	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wei Zhu