diff --git a/odte/Odte.py b/odte/Odte.py
index bd202e5..036be0a 100644
--- a/odte/Odte.py
+++ b/odte/Odte.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 )
 from joblib import Parallel, delayed  # type: ignore
 from stree import Stree  # type: ignore
+from ._version import __version__
 
 
 class Odte(BaseEnsemble, ClassifierMixin):
@@ -49,6 +50,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.max_samples = max_samples  # size of bootstrap
         self.be_hyperparams = be_hyperparams
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def version() -> str:
+        return __version__
+
     def _initialize_random(self) -> np.random.mtrand.RandomState:
         if self.random_state is None:
             self.random_state = random.randint(0, sys.maxsize)
diff --git a/odte/__init__.py b/odte/__init__.py
index c3c684d..deaf8e4 100644
--- a/odte/__init__.py
+++ b/odte/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 from .Odte import Odte
+from ._version import __version__
 
-__version__ = "0.3.1"
-
-__author__ = "Rica.rdo Montañana Gómez"
+__author__ = "Ricardo Montañana Gómez"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2020-2021, Ricardo Montañana Gómez"
 __license__ = "MIT License"
 __author_email__ = "ricardo.montanana@alu.uclm.es"
diff --git a/odte/_version.py b/odte/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..260c070
--- /dev/null
+++ b/odte/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = "0.3.1"
diff --git a/odte/tests/Odte_tests.py b/odte/tests/Odte_tests.py
index 0fc16b4..f19f063 100644
--- a/odte/tests/Odte_tests.py
+++ b/odte/tests/Odte_tests.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from odte import Odte
 from stree import Stree
 from .utils import load_dataset
+from .._version import __version__
 
 
 class Odte_test(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -252,3 +253,7 @@ def test_base_estimator_hyperparams(self):
             for estimator in tclf.estimators_:
                 for key, value in hyperparams.items():
                     self.assertEqual(value, estimator.get_params()[key])
+
+    def test_version(self):
+        tclf = Odte()
+        self.assertEqual(__version__, tclf.version())
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 93a9be2..2cab1c0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import setuptools
+import os
 
 
 def readme():
@@ -8,7 +9,8 @@ def readme():
 
 def get_data(field):
     item = ""
-    with open("odte/__init__.py") as f:
+    file_name = "_version.py" if field == "version" else "__init__.py"
+    with open(os.path.join("odte", file_name)) as f:
         for line in f.readlines():
             if line.startswith(f"__{field}__"):
                 delim = '"' if '"' in line else "'"