Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Mathematics journal rankings 2003
356 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 356 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2002 to 0.87, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, and Inventiones mathematicae.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 Sciences356 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 4.37Q1 | 2.84 0.35 down from 2002 | 96 | 94% | — | ||
2Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 4.08Q1 | 1.80 0.02 down from 2002 | 81 | 15% | — | ||
3Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.04Q1 | 2.38 0.28 up from 2002 | 215 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
4Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 3.44 0.75 up from 2002 | 154 | 32% | $3,456 | ||
5Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 2.22 0.39 up from 2002 | 301 | 17% | $4,570 | ||
6Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 2.10 0.17 down from 2002 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
7Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.56Q1 | 1.95 0.31 down from 2002 | 148 | 86% | — | ||
8Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.54Q1 | 3.46 2.54 up from 2002 | 202 | 11% | — | ||
9Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 3.25Q1 | 2.50 0.88 up from 2002 | 32 | 86% | — | ||
10Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.06Q1 | 2.30 0.56 up from 2002 | 93 | 7% | — | ||
11Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 3.05Q1 | 2.41 0.14 down from 2002 | 807 | 7% | — | ||
12American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.88 0.62 up from 2002 | 872 | 22% | $4,856 | ||
13Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 2.91Q1 | 2.33 0.03 up from 2002 | 180 | 8% | $5,230 | ||
14Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.87Q1 | 2.00 0.30 down from 2002 | 162 | 10% | $3,090 | ||
15Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 0.81 0.73 down from 2002 | 61 | 26% | $4,463 | ||
16The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.66Q1 | 1.99 0.03 up from 2002 | 223 | 85% | — | ||
17Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.64Q1 | 2.35 0.33 up from 2002 | 74 | 72% | — | ||
18Journal of Evolution EquationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.52Q1 | 1.57 0.70 up from 2002 | 46 | 6% | $2,990 | ||
19Journal of Mathematical Fluid MechanicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.51Q1 | 1.38 0.02 down from 2002 | 49 | 6% | $3,390 | ||
20Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.93 1.13 up from 2002 | 99 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
21Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 2.39Q1 | 1.79 0.19 down from 2002 | 103 | 18% | $3,456 | ||
22Statistics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 0.93 1.49 down from 2002 | 98 | 4% | $2,890 | ||
23Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.33Q1 | 2.13 0.02 up from 2002 | 617 | 64% | $2,990 | ||
24Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 1.14 0.01 down from 2002 | 76 | 91% | — | ||
25Selecta MathematicaBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.29Q1 | 1.30 0.02 down from 2002 | 51 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
26The Annals of Applied ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.22Q1 | 1.58no change | 166 | 78% | — | ||
27Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.41 0.23 up from 2002 | 333 | 27% | — | ||
28Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.18Q1 | 1.32 0.61 up from 2002 | 38 | 8% | — | ||
29Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 2.15Q1 | 1.07 0.11 down from 2002 | 124 | 94% | — | ||
30Advances in MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 2.10Q1 | 1.41 0.39 up from 2002 | 221 | 72% | $3,790 | ||
31Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 2.08Q1 | 1.71 0.32 up from 2002 | 130 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
32Communications in Partial Differential EquationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.07Q1 | 1.34 0.04 up from 2002 | 222 | 11% | — | ||
33Indiana University Mathematics JournalIndiana University · United States | 2.04Q1 | 1.15 0.14 up from 2002 | 191 | 14% | — | ||
34American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.03Q1 | 1.26 0.17 up from 2002 | 128 | 26% | — | ||
35Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 2.02Q1 | 1.25no change | 86 | 66% | — | ||
36The Annals of ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.02Q1 | 1.46 0.19 up from 2002 | 220 | 82% | — | ||
37International Mathematics Research NoticesOxford University Press · United States | 2.01Q1 | 1.29 0.23 up from 2002 | 231 | 10% | $4,534 | ||
38Controlled Clinical TrialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 2.34 0.34 up from 2002 | 216 | 0% | — | ||
39EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.95 0.23 up from 2002 | 527 | 2% | — | ||
40Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 1.94Q1 | 1.15 0.33 down from 2002 | 85 | 87% | $700 | ||
41Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.93Q1 | 1.17 0.21 down from 2002 | 137 | 14% | $2,390 | ||
42SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.90Q1 | 1.63 0.48 up from 2002 | 227 | 9% | — | ||
43BiostatisticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.03 0.23 down from 2002 | 105 | 18% | $3,296 | ||
44Journal of Functional AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.39 0.22 up from 2002 | 459 | 100% | $3,250 | ||
45Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et StatistiquesInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · France | 1.85Q1 | 1.22 0.23 up from 2002 | 108 | 25% | — | ||
46Mathematische AnnalenSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.19 0.22 up from 2002 | 338 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
47Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.83Q1 | 1.65 0.15 up from 2002 | 231 | 13% | — | ||
48Computational Optimization and ApplicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.36 0.44 up from 2002 | 145 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
49Algebras and Representation TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 1.18 0.06 up from 2002 | 65 | 4% | $3,490 | ||
50Communications in Analysis and GeometryInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.82Q1 | 0.93 0.22 up from 2002 | 100 | 97% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics107
- Geometry and Topology91
- Statistics and Probability67
- Mathematical Physics47
- Algebra and Number Theory14
- Modeling and Simulation14
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics12
- Numerical Analysis4
- Computational Mathematics0
- Theoretical Computer Science0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
107 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 356
- Window papers (baseline)
- 81,678 +16.4% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.87 +14.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.