Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Mathematics journal rankings 2002
342 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 342 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.80, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.29. The top three are Acta Mathematica, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Mathematics (10)
Up to Physical Sciences342 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2002. | Compare |
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1Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 5.61Q1 | 2.28 0.15 up from 2001 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
2Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.39Q1 | 3.19 0.13 up from 2001 | 108 | 97% | — | ||
3Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.06Q1 | 1.74 1.90 down from 2001 | 81 | 5% | — | ||
4Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 4.09Q1 | 2.02 0.44 down from 2001 | 80 | 65% | — | ||
5Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.96Q1 | 2.26 0.35 up from 2001 | 162 | 6% | — | ||
6Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.72Q1 | 2.30 0.50 up from 2001 | 164 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
7Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.49Q1 | 2.10 0.46 up from 2001 | 228 | 33% | $3,090 | ||
8Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.47Q1 | 1.83 0.07 up from 2001 | 249 | 14% | $4,570 | ||
9Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 2.68 0.06 up from 2001 | 156 | 32% | $3,456 | ||
10Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 3.35Q1 | 1.63 0.54 down from 2001 | 34 | 88% | — | ||
11Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 1.54 0.22 down from 2001 | 51 | 50% | $4,463 | ||
12Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 2.93Q1 | 2.55 0.56 up from 2001 | 1,037 | 3% | — | ||
13Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.92Q1 | 1.81 0.30 down from 2001 | 81 | 17% | — | ||
14Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 2.89Q1 | 2.30 0.66 up from 2001 | 208 | 11% | $5,230 | ||
15American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.72Q1 | 4.26 0.18 up from 2001 | 848 | 22% | $4,856 | ||
16Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.66Q1 | 1.39 0.33 down from 2001 | 124 | 17% | $2,390 | ||
17The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.53Q1 | 1.96 0.10 up from 2001 | 248 | 85% | — | ||
18Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 2.47Q1 | 1.98no change | 92 | 11% | $3,456 | ||
19COMBINATORICASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.41Q1 | 1.29 0.01 down from 2001 | 108 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
20Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.38Q1 | 2.11 0.23 up from 2001 | 727 | 57% | $2,990 | ||
21The Annals of Applied ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.29Q1 | 1.58 0.08 up from 2001 | 156 | 75% | — | ||
22Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 2.24Q1 | 1.48 0.37 up from 2001 | 79 | 100% | $700 | ||
23Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical SocietyOASerbian Mathematical Society · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.20 0.44 up from 2001 | 45 | 50% | — | ||
24Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.19 0.02 up from 2001 | 323 | 21% | — | ||
25Selecta MathematicaBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.19Q1 | 1.32 0.06 down from 2001 | 43 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
26Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.80 0.14 up from 2001 | 96 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
27Algebras and Representation TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 1.12 0.46 up from 2001 | 59 | 0% | $3,490 | ||
28Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 1.15 0.24 down from 2001 | 65 | 90% | — | ||
29Statistics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 2.42 1.10 up from 2001 | 108 | 8% | $2,890 | ||
30Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 2.07Q1 | 1.39 0.28 up from 2001 | 121 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
31EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.04Q1 | 2.73 0.11 down from 2001 | 533 | 2% | — | ||
32Proceedings of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.17 0.22 down from 2001 | 157 | 4% | $4,700 | ||
33Journal of Mathematical Fluid MechanicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.03Q1 | 1.41 0.41 up from 2001 | 47 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
34Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 2.03Q1 | 1.25 0.20 up from 2001 | 83 | 81% | — | ||
35Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 1.94 0.53 up from 2001 | 108 | 25% | $3,456 | ||
36Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 0.93 0.18 up from 2001 | 103 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
37Indiana University Mathematics JournalIndiana University · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.01 0.09 down from 2001 | 197 | 30% | — | ||
38TopologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 1.06 0.27 down from 2001 | 177 | 100% | — | ||
39American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.91Q1 | 1.09 0.06 down from 2001 | 134 | 24% | — | ||
40BiostatisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 2.26 0.79 up from 2001 | 65 | 32% | $3,296 | ||
41Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.18 0.02 up from 2001 | 127 | 76% | — | ||
42Communications in Contemporary MathematicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.87Q1 | 0.57 0.33 down from 2001 | 94 | 6% | — | ||
43Statistical Methods in Medical ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 1.29 0.34 down from 2001 | 129 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
44Mathematical Research LettersInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.86Q1 | 1.15 0.35 up from 2001 | 202 | 100% | — | ||
45Transformation GroupsBirkhäuser · United States | 1.86Q1 | 0.77 0.32 down from 2001 | 58 | 12% | $2,990 | ||
46SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.86Q1 | 1.14 0.04 down from 2001 | 231 | 8% | — | ||
47Journal of Functional AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.17 0.06 up from 2001 | 448 | 98% | $3,250 | ||
48Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.84Q1 | 1.50 0.39 up from 2001 | 211 | 10% | — | ||
49Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.84Q1 | 0.92 0.12 up from 2001 | 239 | 7% | — | ||
50BernoulliChapman and Hall London · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 1.11 0.19 down from 2001 | 154 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics101
- Geometry and Topology86
- Statistics and Probability67
- Mathematical Physics46
- Algebra and Number Theory13
- Modeling and Simulation13
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics12
- Numerical Analysis4
- Computational Mathematics0
- Theoretical Computer Science0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
110 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 342
- Window papers (baseline)
- 77,974 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.801 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 316 | 326 | 342 | 356 | 364 | 375 | 383 | 393 | 401 | 424 | 450 | 467 | 487 | 506 | 529 | 555 | 575 | 584 | 588 | 593 | 602 | 600 | 612 | 617 | 614 | 610 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 70,182 | 74,018 | 77,974 | 81,678 | 85,838 | 89,093 | 93,529 | 97,540 | 104,467 | 112,174 | 118,651 | 123,776 | 130,449 | 135,652 | 143,693 | 149,268 | 155,762 | 159,703 | 162,848 | 168,439 | 176,105 | 193,556 | 212,384 | 223,655 | 220,761 | 214,225 | |
| Median OJR | 0.756 | 0.75 | 0.801 | 0.87 | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.88 | 0.916 | 0.889 | 0.918 | 0.892 | 0.86 | 0.83 | 0.78 | 0.799 | 0.757 | 0.74 | 0.69 | 0.636 | 0.637 | 0.62 | 0.5578 | 0.54 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.5581 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.5% | 375 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.736 per 1,000 | 427 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.1% | 575 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 57.5% | 610 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,190 | 299 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 29.7% | 566 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 610 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.56 | 610 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 57.3% | 610 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 52.0% | 610 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.