Statistical Methods in Medical Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of Health Care and Medical Informatics.

The journal's editor is Brian Everitt (King's College London).

The journal focuses solely on statistics and medicine and aims to keep professionals up to date with all statistical techniques.

Statistical Methods in Medical Research is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013 impact factor is 2.957, ranking it 14 out of 85 journals in the category ‘Health Care Sciences & Services’.,[1] 5 out of 119 journals in the category ‘Statistics & Probability’.,[2] 6 out of 52 journals in the category ‘Mathematical & Computational Biology’.