About the journal
Statistical Methods in Medical Research is the long-running peer-reviewed methods-review journal for biostatisticians and clinical-research methodologists. Founded under Edward Arnold in 1992 with Brian Everitt (King's College London) as founding editor, the journal was published by Arnold for fourteen years before being carried to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale.
Editorial scope covers the methodological literature across clinical and medical research: clinical-trial design and analysis (factorial trials, adaptive designs, cluster trials, platform trials, master protocols), epidemiological methods (cohort and case-control study design, instrumental variables, mediation analysis, causal inference), survival and time-to-event analysis (Cox regression and its extensions, competing risks, multi-state models), multilevel and longitudinal methods, missing-data methodology and multiple imputation, Bayesian methods in medicine (hierarchical models, prior elicitation, decision-theoretic analysis), and the meta-analysis and evidence-synthesis literatures.
The journal carries themed issues on specific methodological topics alongside its general-submission articles, and it has been a principal venue for the medical-statistics community since its launch. Under SAGE it has continued with the same editorial direction and remains among the most-cited journals in medical statistics.
Scope
- biostatistics
- clinical-trial methodology
- epidemiological methods
- multilevel & longitudinal methods
- survival analysis
Editorial contributors
- Brian Everitt
Co-founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief (1992–2021)
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- Web of Science (SCI-Expanded)
- MEDLINE
- MathSciNet
Indexing coverage reflects the journal’s inclusion in standard bibliographic databases during the Arnold imprint years and (where applicable) under subsequent publishers.
Bibliographic identifiers
- ISO 4 abbreviation
- Stat. Methods Med. Res.
Frequently asked
- Who is Statistical Methods in Medical Research aimed at?
- The journal is aimed at biostatisticians, clinical-trial methodologists, epidemiological methodologists, and applied medical researchers who need to keep up with the methodological literature across clinical trials, epidemiology, survival analysis, and Bayesian medicine.
- When was the journal founded?
- The journal was founded in 1992 under the Edward Arnold imprint with Brian Everitt of King's College London as founding editor, and was carried to SAGE Publications with the rest of the Hodder Arnold journal list in 2006.
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