The ISI has a new journal called Stat, I'm not sure this is a good marketing appellation in the modern world of search engines, but it has an interesting premise. It promises quick turnaround, prompt electronic publication and a sanctioned blog forum in which readers can comment on published articles. It isn't intended for long expository pieces, rather it is meant for pithier, perhaps more provocative pieces that wouldn't fit well in the current journals. This is a niche that Biometrika's Miscellanea section used to fill. I decided to give this a whirl recently, submitted a 5 page paper comparing some empirical Bayes methods in several simulation settings of the Johnstone and Silverman "needles in haystacks" type. In a couple of weeks I received a favorable, and very well informed referee report* and the paper was accepted. It appeared after a bit of copy-editing a week or two later. Whether it attracts any Statblog attention remains to be seen, but I certainly hope so. It is freely available at:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sta4.v3.1/issuetoc for a while at least.
* In the realm of referee reports, "favorable" and "well informed" are synonyms, so this sentence was a bit redundant.
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