| Cover: | Journal_of_Classification_Cover.jpg |
| Journal of Classification | |
| Editor: | Paul McNicholas |
| Discipline: | Statistics |
| Abbreviation: | J. Classif. |
| Publisher: | Springer Science+Business Media |
| Frequency: | 3/year |
| History: | 1984-present |
| Impact: | 2.0 |
| Impact-Year: | 2022 |
| Website: | https://www.springer.com/journal/357 |
| Link2: | https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/357 |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
| Issn: | 0176-4268 |
| Eissn: | 1432-1343 |
Journal of Classification is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is the official journal of The Classification Society.[1] The journal publishes three issues a year on topics in the field of classification, numerical taxonomy, multidimensional scaling and other ordination techniques, cluster analysis, tree structures and other network models. Each issue typically comprises four sections: articles, short notes and comments, software abstracts, and book reviews.
Since the foundation of the Journal of Classification in 1984, there have been four Editors-in-Chief. The current Editor-in-Chief is Paul McNicholas.[2] The previous Editors-in-Chief were: Douglas L. Steinley (2015–2020); Willem Heiser (2002–2015); and Phipps Arabie (1984–2002).[3]
Journal of Classification is abstracted and indexed in DBLP,[4] Journal Citation Reports,[5] Mathematical Reviews,[6] Research Papers in Economics,[7] SCImago Journal Rank,[8] Scopus,[9] Science Citation Index,[10] Zentralblatt MATH,[11] among others.[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.333.[2]