The R Journal

*The R Journal*
\|Subject \|Discipline}}	Statistical computing
Language	English
Edited by	Catherine Hurley
Publication details
History	2009–present
Publisher	The R Foundation (Austria)
Frequency	Biannually
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY 4.0
Impact factor	1.673 (2021)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	R J.
Indexing
ISSN	2073-4859;
OCLC no.	920403881
Links
	Journal homepage;

The R Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by The R Foundation since 2009.^[1] It publishes research articles in statistical computing that are of interest to users of the R programming language. 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 journal also publishes articles on best-practice and innovation in modelling, for example in multivariate statistics 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.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.^[3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.673.^[4]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: Vince Carey (2009), Peter Dalgaard (2010), Heather Turner (2011), Martyn Plummer (2012), Hadley Wickham (2013), Deepayan Sarkar (2014), Bettina Grün (2015), Michael Lawrence (2016), Roger Bivand (2017), John Verzani (2018), Norman Matloff (2019), Michael Kane (2020), Dianne Cook (2021), and Catherine Hurley (2022).