Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the launch of Stat, the new online-only, rapid communication research journal of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), publishing articles in all facets of statistics and related interdisciplinary areas.
Stat publishes short articles within four weeks of submission, using a streamlined submission and review system. Allowing readers to access and connect with content in novel ways, emphasis is placed on the online delivery of articles and innovative forms of supplementary material including data, graphs, images, video, software, and code. It will have an associated moderated online discussion, Statblog, to facilitate immediate discussion of published articles.
Stat provides a means of rapid sharing of important new theoretical, methodological, and applied research for the international community of statisticians, researchers, and practitioners. Paper types include original articles, letters to the editor, discussion papers, and author responses, with a maximum article length of ten pages of text.
