This year JSS, at www.jstatsoft.org, published eight volumes V38-V45. Five of them were special volumes: V38 - Competing Risks and Multi-State Models (guest editor Putter) V41 - Statistical Software for State Space Methods (Guest editors Commandeur, Koopman, Ooms) V42 - Poltical Methodology (Guest editors Altman, Fox, Jackman, Zeileis) V44 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R (Guest editors Tabelow, Whitcher) V45 - Multiple Imputation (Guest editor Yucel) The Thomson/Reuters Impact Factors for the last three year for computational statistics journals are Comp Stat 0.500 -> 0.731 -> 0.628 CSDA 0.226 -> 1.281 -> 1.089 JCGS 1.505 -> 1.258 -> 1.206 JSS 1.033 -> 2.320 -> 2.647 You may be interested our success in Computer Science http://www.sciencewatch.com/inter/jou/2011/11decJofStatSoft/ You can follow and befriend us at http://www.facebook.com/jstatsoft ==Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software; US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au