At present, articles are accompanied on the publisher's web site by computer code and illustrative data sets 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 (IBS)[1] electronically and in print using the English language.

Ten years after the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Ottokar Heinisch (Leipzig, GDR) and Maria-Pia Geppert (Bad Nauheim, FRG) jointly started to publish the journal in Akademie Verlag in 1959 under the title Biometrische Zeitschrift,[2] as the scientific journal of the IBS' German Region, which had been meeting annually since 1953.

The journal home page additionally lists CompuMath Citation Index, EORTC Bibliography Database, Mathematical Reviews, SCOPUS, VINITI, Web of Science, and Zoological Record among others.