To publish original and valuable papers in the field of classification, numerical taxonomy, multidimensional scaling and other ordination techniques, clustering, tree structures and other network models (with somewhat less emphasis on principal components analysis, factor analysis, and discriminant analysis), as well as associated models and algorithms for fitting them. Articles will support advances in methodology while demonstrating compelling substantive applications. Comprehensive review articles are also acceptable. Contributions will represent disciplines such as 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, Journal of Classification typically has four sections in each issue: articles, short notes and comments, software abstracts, and book reviews. 

Officially cited as: J Classif

Founding Editor
Phipps Arabie
1984-2002
Current Editor-In-Chief
Douglas L. Steinley
Department of Psychological Sciences
University of Missouri, USA

Former Editor
Willem J. Heiser
Department of Psychology
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Book Review Editor
Jeffrey L. Andrews
Department of Statistics 
University of British Columbia 
Kelowna, Canada
Editorial Assistant
Martine Goderie

Editorial Board 
Michael J. Brusco
Information and Management Sciences
Department
College of Business
Florida State University
Tallahassee, USA
Patrick E. Bradley 
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany

Laine Bradshaw
Department of Educational Psychology 
The University of Georgia at Athens, USA
Renato Cordeiro de Amorim
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
University of Essex, UK

Kathleen Gates 
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 

Micheala Hoffman
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina, USA 

Hans-Friedrich Köhn
Department of Psychology 
University of Illinois- Urbana-Champagne, USA
Pierre Legendre 
Department de Sciences Biologiques 
Universite de Montreal, Canada
Rosario Lombardo 
Dipartimento di Economia 
Università Degli Studi Della Campiana Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy 

Geoff McLachlan
Department of Mathematics
University of Queensland, Australia
Paul McNicholas 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
McMaster University, Canada
Jacqueline J. Meulman 
Mathematical Institute 
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Boris Mirkin 
School of Computer Science Birkbeck
University of London, UK
and Division of Applied Mathematics 
Higher School of Economics 
Moscow, Russian Federation
Fionn Murtagh
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Elena Rubei 
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica 'Ulisse Dini' 
Università Degli Studi Firenze, Italy 

Roberta Siciliano
Dipartimento di Matématica é Statistica
Univ. Napoli "Frederico II", Italy

Marieke Timmerman
Department Psychometrics & Statistics
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Iven van Mechelen 
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences 
KU Leuven , Belgium
Xu (Sunny) Wang
Department of Mathematics
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Matthias Warrens
Department of Education Science
University of Groningen, The Netherlands