The Stata Journal is a quarterly publication containing articles about statistics, data analysis, teaching methods, and effective use of Stata's language. The Journal publishes reviewed papers together with shorter notes and comments, regular columns, book reviews, and other material of interest to researchers applying statistics in a variety of disciplines.

The Stata Journal is indexed in Thomson Scientific’s citation indexes (Social Sciences Citation Index, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Science Citation Index Expanded, and CompuMath Citation Index), RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, and Scopus.