''Biometrical Journal'' covers

statistical methods Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and their applications in life sciences including

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

, environmental sciences and

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. Typical articles contain both, the development of methodology and its application. At present, articles are accompanied on the publisher's web site by

computer code Computer code may refer to: *Source code *Machine code *Bytecode Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable source code, byte ...

and illustrative

data set A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data. In the case of tabular data, a data set corresponds to one or more table (database), database tables, where every column (database), column of a table represents a particular Variable (computer sci ...

s for the sake of reproducible research. The code is checked by an appointed Reproducible Research Editor before it is published as supplementary material. It is published by Wiley-VCH in cooperation with the German and Austro-Swiss Regions of the

International Biometric Society The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics. It sponsors t ...

( IBS)IBS German Region, Biometrical Journal
electronically and in print using the English language.

History

Ten years after the foundation of the

Federal Republic of Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 84 ...

( FRG) and the

German Democratic Republic East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

(

GDR East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...

), Ottokar Heinisch (

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

, GDR) and

Maria-Pia Geppert Maria-Pia Geppert (May 28, 1907 – November 18, 1997) was a German mathematician and biostatistician who co-founded the ''Biometrical Journal''. Geppert was the first woman to become a full professor at the University of Tübingen. With Emmy No ...

(

Bad Nauheim Bad Nauheim () is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany. As of 2020, Bad Nauheim has a population of 32,493. The town is approximately north of Frankfurt am Main, on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range. It is a w ...

, FRG) jointly started to publish the journal in

Akademie Verlag :''There also were unrelated publishing houses in Stuttgart and in (East-)Berlin, and there is the (JAVG).'' Akademie Verlag (AV) is a German scientific and academic publishing company, founded in 1946 in the Soviet-occupied eastern part ...

in 1959 under the title ''Biometrische Zeitschrift'',First issue masthead
/ref> as the scientific journal of the IBS' German Region, which had been meeting annually since 1953.The Biometric Society. ''Biometrics'' 1953;9(4):535-7 Biometric Colloquia of the IBS German Region
/ref> Twelve years after the

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the B ...

had been built and under pressure from

authorities, a separate Region

was established to cut off the contacts with the FRG. The journal adopted its English title ''Biometrical Journal'' in 1976, when (

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

) was its editor.masthead 1977
/ref> Both IBS Regions reunited soon after

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

. First editor after that was (

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; ) is the Capital city, capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...

) followed by Peter Bauer (

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

). In 2004, the Austro-Swiss and the German Region of IBS and

Wiley-VCH Wiley-VCH is a German publisher owned by John Wiley & Sons. It was founded in 1921 as Verlag Chemie (meaning "Chemistry Press": VCH stands for ''Verlag Chemie'') by two German learned societies A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellect ...

decided that both regions nominate the editors and subscribe to the online version of the journalcircular of the IBS German Region 2004/2
/ref>circular of the IBS Austro-Swiss-Region 2004
starting with the editorship of (

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

) and

Martin Schumacher Martin Schumacher (born June 28, 1950) is a German statistician. He was the head of the Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics of the Medical Center of the University of Freiburg from 1986 until 2017. Life and work Martin Schumacher ...

(

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

). ;Editors of Biometrical Journal * 1959 - 1966 Ottokar Heinisch and

* 1966 - 1968

and * 1968 - 1988 * 1989 - 1995 Heinz Ahrens and Klaus Bellmann * 1996 - 1999 * 2000 - 2003 Peter Bauer * 2004 - 2008 and

* 2009 - 2011 Tim Friede and Leonard Held * 2012 - 2014 Lutz Edler and Mauro Gasparini * 2015 - 2017 Dankmar Böhning and Marco Alfò * 2020 - 2022 Matthias Schmid and Arne Bathke

Abstracting and indexing

The ''Biometrical Journal'' figured in the 2007

comparison of statistics journals This is a list of scientific journals published in the field of statistics. Introductory and outreach *''The American Statistician'' *'' Significance'' General theory and methodology *'' Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics'' *'' ...

, according to which it is indexed in the

Current Index to Statistics The Current Index to Statistics was an online database published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association that contained bibliographic data of articles in statistics, probability, and related fields. ...

Zentralblatt MATH zbMATH Open, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastru ...

, and

Medline MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medic ...

. Its

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ...

was close to the median of indexed journals. The journal home page additionally lists

CompuMath Citation Index CompuMath Citation Index is an indexing service published by Thomson Reuters, and was first available in 1982 as an Institute for Scientific Information database. Coverage of the index included the literature pertaining to pure and applied mathemati ...

, EORTC Bibliography Database,

Mathematical Reviews ''Mathematical Reviews'' is a journal published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that contains brief synopses, and in some cases evaluations, of many articles in mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science. The AMS also pu ...

SCOPUS Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c ...

VINITI VINITI (; All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information; former All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) is a subsidiary of the Russian Academy of Sciences devoted to gathering scientific and technical inform ...

Web of Science The Web of Science (WoS; previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a paid-access platform that provides (typically via the internet) access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedi ...

, and

Zoological Record ''The Zoological Record'' (''ZR'') is an electronic index of zoological literature that also serves as the unofficial register of scientific names in zoology. It was started as a print publication in 1864 by the Zoological Society of London, ...

among others.

References

External links

*
Journal page at publisher's website

Austro-Swiss Region of the International Biometric Society

International Biometric Society
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