JOURNAL OF CLASSIFICATION

The Journal of Classification presents original and valuable papers in the field of classification, numerical taxonomy, multidimensional scaling and other ordination techniques, clustering, tree structures and other network models, as well as associated models and algorithms for fitting them. Articles support advances in methodology, while demonstrating compelling substantive applications.The journal also publishes comprehensive review articles.Among the disciplines represented are statistics, psychology, biology, information retrieval, anthropology, archeology, astronomy, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, geography, geology, linguistics, marketing, mathematics, medicine, political science, psychiatry, sociology, and soil science.Published three times a year, each issue typically comprises four sections: articles, short notes and comments, software abstracts, and book reviews.

《分类》杂志在分类、数值分类学、多维标度等排序技术、聚类、树结构等网络模型以及相关模型和算法的拟合等方面发表了原创的、有价值的论文。文章支持方法论的进步，同时展示了引人注目的实质性应用。该杂志还发表全面的评论文章。所代表的学科包括统计学、心理学、生物学、信息检索、人类学、考古学、天文学、商学、化学、计算机科学、经济学、工程学、地理学、地质学、语言学、市场学、数学、医学、政治学、精神病学、社会学和土壤科学。每期每年出版三次，通常包括四个部分:文章、简短的注释和评论、软件摘要和书评。