Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Mathematics journal rankings 2012
487 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 487 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.83, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are Mathematical Programming Computation, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology), and Acta Mathematica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Sciences487 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.79Q1 | 5.63 1.09 down from 2011 | 33 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
2Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.78Q1 | 9.48 4.07 up from 2011 | 98 | 60% | $3,456 | ||
3Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 6.32Q1 | 4.39 0.57 down from 2011 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
4Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 5.18Q1 | 3.91 0.22 down from 2011 | 271 | 92% | — | ||
5Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 4.73Q1 | 3.15 0.99 down from 2011 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
6Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 4.12Q1 | 3.38 0.53 down from 2011 | 127 | 33% | $5,230 | ||
7Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.08Q1 | 3.71 1.19 up from 2011 | 148 | 22% | — | ||
8Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.78Q1 | 3.03 1.12 down from 2011 | 104 | 25% | — | ||
9Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 3.66Q1 | 3.94 0.40 down from 2011 | 281 | 30% | $3,456 | ||
10The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 3.65Q1 | 4.42 0.14 up from 2011 | 387 | 98% | — | ||
11Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.37Q1 | 2.45 0.86 down from 2011 | 194 | 56% | $3,090 | ||
12Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.24Q1 | 2.38 0.21 down from 2011 | 445 | 22% | $4,570 | ||
13American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 3.24Q1 | 5.36 0.58 down from 2011 | 1,015 | 54% | $4,856 | ||
14Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 3.19Q1 | 3.21 0.23 down from 2011 | 159 | 97% | $3,150 | ||
15Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.89Q1 | 2.89 0.06 up from 2011 | 66 | 9% | $2,490 | ||
16Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 2.74Q1 | 2.65 0.60 up from 2011 | 165 | 98% | — | ||
17Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.68Q1 | 2.65 0.03 up from 2011 | 275 | 54% | $3,090 | ||
18Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.25 0.22 up from 2011 | 204 | 88% | — | ||
19American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.56Q1 | 2.04 0.41 up from 2011 | 153 | 42% | — | ||
20Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.50Q1 | 2.33 0.09 up from 2011 | 163 | 44% | $2,390 | ||
21PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.83 0.52 up from 2011 | 113 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
22Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 1.94 0.23 up from 2011 | 82 | 9% | $4,463 | ||
23The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.49Q1 | 1.20 1.98 down from 2011 | 176 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
24Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 2.37Q1 | 2.97 0.07 down from 2011 | 428 | 43% | — | ||
25Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.37Q1 | 2.08 0.54 up from 2011 | 107 | 16% | — | ||
26Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 2.33 0.39 down from 2011 | 199 | 10% | $3,460 | ||
27EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.32Q1 | 3.78 0.36 up from 2011 | 567 | 6% | — | ||
28The Annals of Applied ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.25Q1 | 2.39 0.67 up from 2011 | 228 | 99% | — | ||
29Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.22Q1 | 3.04 0.29 up from 2011 | 130 | 100% | — | ||
30BiometrikaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.52 0.28 down from 2011 | 251 | 50% | $3,592 | ||
31Inverse ProblemsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.50 0.32 down from 2011 | 497 | 59% | $3,325 | ||
32Letters in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 3.19 1.27 up from 2011 | 248 | 85% | $2,990 | ||
33Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.46 0.79 down from 2011 | 151 | 96% | — | ||
34SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.32 0.64 up from 2011 | 356 | 33% | — | ||
35Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 2.08Q1 | 2.67 0.57 up from 2011 | 447 | 100% | $1,214 | ||
36Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 2.04Q1 | 1.05 0.59 down from 2011 | 70 | 92% | — | ||
37Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010)Publisher not listed | 2.04Q1 | 0.65no 2011 value | 188 | — | — | — | |
38Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 2.01Q1 | 1.92 0.16 up from 2011 | 170 | 99% | $700 | ||
39Nonlinear AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.76 0.05 down from 2011 | 2,362 | 13% | $2,690 | ||
40Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.99Q1 | 2.32 0.10 down from 2011 | 680 | 85% | $2,990 | ||
41The Annals of ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.62 0.81 down from 2011 | 220 | 97% | — | ||
42Evolutionary BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.95Q1 | 2.61 0.99 down from 2011 | 108 | 27% | $2,290 | ||
43Representation Theory of the American Mathematical SocietySerbian Mathematical Society · United States | 1.91Q1 | 1.11 0.61 down from 2011 | 67 | 53% | — | ||
44Bayesian AnalysisOAInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.43 0.46 up from 2011 | 142 | 100% | — | ||
45NonlinearityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 1.88 0.11 up from 2011 | 450 | 77% | $3,325 | ||
46Probability Theory and Related FieldsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.87 0.38 up from 2011 | 207 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
47BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.47 0.46 down from 2011 | 374 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
48Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 1.80Q1 | 1.49no change | 183 | 99% | $2,900 | ||
49Advances in MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.78Q1 | 1.41 0.07 up from 2011 | 953 | 92% | $3,790 | ||
50Statistics in MedicineWiley · United States | 1.77Q1 | 2.60 0.34 up from 2011 | 859 | 33% | $5,450 |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics154
- Geometry and Topology113
- Statistics and Probability99
- Mathematical Physics56
- Algebra and Number Theory23
- Modeling and Simulation22
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics14
- Numerical Analysis5
- Theoretical Computer Science1
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
147 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 487
- Window papers (baseline)
- 130,449 +16.3% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.83 -10.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.