About the Journal

Focus and Scope

SORT- Statistics and Operations Research Transactions —formerly Qüestiió— is an international Open Access journal launched in 2003 which does not charge publication fees. It is published twice-yearly, in English, by the Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat). The journal is co-edited by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Universitat de Girona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Lleida and Universitat Rovira i Virgili with the co-operation of the Spanish Section of the International Biometric Society and the Catalan Statistical Society. SORT promotes the publication of original articles of a methodological or applied nature motivated by an applied problem in statistics, operations research, official statistics or biometrics as well as book reviews. We encourage authors to include an example of a real data set in their manuscripts.

Peer Review Process

All articles submitted to thematic sections will be forwarded for systematic peer review by independent specialists and/or members of the Editorial Committee, except for those articles specifically invited by the journal or reprinted with permission.

Authors can preprint their manuscripts during the submission process and showcase their work to the global research community, before it is accepted or published. This can be done in any non-commercial preprint server such as archiv.

Publication Frequency

SORT is published twice a year, number 1 is published in June and number 2 in December. Journal waits for the totally of articles that will compose a number to publish it online and in paper format.

Open Access Policy

SORT is an open access journal. Articles can be accessed online as soon as they are published.

Indexed in

SORT is indexed in the "Science Citation Index Expanded" (Thomson Scientific) and described in the "Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences". The journal is also referenced in the "Current Index to Statistics", the "Índice Español de Ciencia y Tecnología", "Statistical Methods and Abstracts", MathSci of the American Mathematical Society ("Current Mathematical Publications and Mathematical Reviews") and “Scopus”. In 2013, SORT has also renewed the certificate of excellence given in 2011 by Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología which guarantees publishing and scientific quality.

Sources of Support

SORT has obtained the certificate of excellence given by Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) which guarantees publishing and scientific quality.

Journal History

SORT represents the third series of the Quaderns d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa (Qüestiió), published by Idescat between 1992 and 2002, which in turn followed from the first series "Quaderns d'Estadística, Sistemas, Informàtica i Investigació Operativa" (1977–1992). The three series of Qüestiió have their origin in the "Cuadernos de Estadística Aplicada e Investigación Operativa", published by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya until 1977.