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.

《分類》雜志在分類、數值分類學、多維標度等排序技術、聚類、樹結構等網絡模型以及相關模型和算法的擬合等方面發表了原創的、有價值的論文。文章支持方法論的進步，同時展示了引人注目的實質性應用。該雜志還發表全面的評論文章。所代表的學科包括統計學、心理學、生物學、信息檢索、人類學、考古學、天文學、商學、化學、計算機科學、經濟學、工程學、地理學、地質學、語言學、市場學、數學、醫學、政治學、精神病學、社會學和土壤科學。每期每年出版三次，通常包括四個部分:文章、簡短的注釋和評論、軟件摘要和書評。