The Stata Journal is a printed and electronic journal containing reviewed articles related to Stata together with community-contributed software additions to Stata. The Journal is included in scientific citation indexes. The Stata Journal is available by subscription.
Accompanying each issue is software that can be installed into Stata. The software is available for free over the Internet to both subscribers and nonsubscribers.
The Stata Journal is a publication for all Stata users, both novice and experienced, with various levels of expertise in statistics, research design, data management, graphics, reporting of results, and of Stata in particular.
A portion of the article "The Stata Journal begins publication fourth quarter 2001", which appeared in STB-61, May 2001, states
The numerous daily postings on Statalist illustrate very well the readership we have in mind, as those who follow it will appreciate. As with many listservers, the style and content of Statalist discussions have evolved into an expression of members’ interests and expertise. Statalist is centered on, but in no sense limited to, Stata users. Members’ questions and answers range back and forth through specifics on using Stata to general questions on data management; statistical data analysis and modeling; and what is and is not good practice, statistically, computationally and scientifically. Statalist is widely appreciated, not just as a relatively rapid and effective way of solving Stata problems, but also as a source of wisdom on statistical matters in the widest sense. It is this mix that we seek to emulate, although with more substantial and more durable contributions, in the Stata Journal.
The Stata Journal publishes reviewed papers, shorter notes or comments, regular columns, book reviews, and other materials of interest to Stata users.
Full details on the types of articles published can be found at stata-journal.com/submissions.
We do not publish in the Stata Journal 1) any articles on statistics or statistical science, however broadly defined, that lack Stata content or specific application to Stata use or 2) Stata programs that lack supporting discussion.
The editorial board can be found at stata-journal.com/editorial-board.
Each article, column, note, or comment in the Stata Journal is assigned a letter-number code, such as st0042, an0034, or ds0012.
A number such as st0042 indicates that this article is number 42 in the st category.
A number such as st0042_1 indicates that this article, column, note, or comment is related to the original st0042 article and could have the same or different authors.
The following category codes are used:
| an | announcements |
| dm | data management |
| ds | datasets |
| gn | general |
| gr | graphics |
| pr | |
| st | statistics |
The appropriate citation for an article in the Stata Journal is
For example,
In some cases, it is necessary to abbreviate the name of the Stata Journal. The official abbreviation is SJ.
The ISSN number for the printed Journal is 1536-867X, and the ISSN number for the electronic Journal is 1536-8734.
The Journal is published quarterly:
Volume 1 refers to the first year, Volume 2 the second, and so on. Issues are numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 within each year. The first issue of the Journal was published Oct–Dec, 2001, and that issue is numbered Volume 1, Number 1:
Volume 2 Number 1: 2002 Jan–Mar
Volume 2 Number 2: 2002 Apr–Jun
Volume 2 Number 3: 2002 Jul–Sep
Volume 2 Number 4: 2002 Oct–Dec
Volume 3 Number 1: 2003 Jan–Mar
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The Stata Journal is published in association with Sage
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Institutions may obtain a printed and electronic subscription to the Stata Journal and should make the Stata Journal available within the institution. Institutional rates can be found at https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-stata-journal/journal203560#subscribe.
Email orders@sagepub.com for additional details.
The Stata Journal and the contents of the supporting files (programs, datasets, and help files) are copyright © by StataCorp LLC. The contents of the supporting files (programs, datasets, and help files) may be copied or reproduced by any means whatsoever, in whole or in part, as long as any copy or reproduction includes attribution to both (1) the author and (2) the Stata Journal.
The articles appearing in the Stata Journal may be copied or reproduced as printed copies, in whole or in part, as long as any copy or reproduction includes attribution to both (1) the author and (2) the Stata Journal.
Written permission must be obtained from StataCorp if you wish to make electronic copies of the insertions. This precludes placing electronic copies of the Stata Journal, in whole or in part, on publicly accessible web sites, fileservers, or other locations where the copy may be accessed by anyone other than the subscriber.
Users of any of the software, ideas, data, or other materials published in the Stata Journal or the supporting files understand that such use is made without warranty of any kind, by either the Stata Journal, the author, or StataCorp. In particular, there is no warranty of fitness of purpose or merchantability, nor for special, incidental, or consequential damages such as loss of profits. The purpose of the Stata Journal is to promote free communication among Stata users.
The Stata Journal (ISSN 1536-867X) is a publication of Stata Press, and Stata is a registered trademark of StataCorp LLC.
If you wanted to install insert st0001 from Volume 1, Number 1, you could use the net command:
. net from https://www.stata-journal.com/software
. net cd sj1-1
. net describe st0001
. net install st0001
or you could
See [U] 17.6 How do I install an addition? and [U] 29 Using the Internet to keep up to date.
The STB—the Stata Technical Bulletin—is the predecessor of the Stata Journal. It was published six times per year between May 1991 and May 2001.
For ten years, the STB served as a means of distributing new commands and Stata updates, both community-contributed and "official". When the STB began, there was no Internet or, at least, no Internet that was used to distribute software and updates, and the STB fulfilled this need. Users back then subscribed to the STB with diskettes, and these diskettes contained the updates.
More recently, the growth of the Internet along with the growth in both the number and the diversity of Stata users allowed the editors to gradually introduce changes in the STB. In particular, the Internet, Stata's website, and the Statalist listserver allowed instant communication among users, and moreover, improvements to Stata software actually allowed it to search the Internet for desired statistical capabilities—whether written by StataCorp or by users—and instantly install what it finds.
Over its last five years, STB "inserts" became less announcements and short articles describing community-contributed programs and became more longer articles describing complicated programs as well as more general articles about how Stata can be used to analyze interesting datasets.
When the STB began, timeliness was of primary importance. Nowadays, printed matter cannot compete with the Internet in that respect; however, printed material is more considered, more substantial, and more trustworthy. Thus the editors came to the conclusion that a new vehicle needed to be created, the Stata Journal. The editors decided that the Journal should be printed less often (4 times per year rather than 6), allowing them more time to review articles and making the articles even more considered, substantial, and trustworthy. They also knew that they wanted to change the emphasis of the articles. Programs with documentation will always be welcome, but we believe that users want and need more expository articles about statistics and using Stata, rather than about Stata as a program.
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(last revised 01 May 2023)