Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Applied Mathematics journal rankings 2016
182 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Applied Mathematics has 182 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, and Advances in Nonlinear Analysis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 of Mathematics (10)
182 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 3.06 0.42 up from 2015 | 168 | 51% | $5,230 | ||
2Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.45Q1 | 2.83 0.54 up from 2015 | 353 | 74% | $3,090 | ||
3Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.29Q1 | 2.19 0.89 up from 2015 | 76 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
4Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.80 0.23 up from 2015 | 165 | 79% | — | ||
5Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 2.11Q1 | 2.21 0.59 up from 2015 | 203 | 93% | $700 | ||
6Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 1.97 0.67 up from 2015 | 338 | 39% | $3,190 | ||
7Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 2.06Q1 | 1.68no change | 217 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
8Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 1.56 0.41 down from 2015 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
9SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.20 0.35 up from 2015 | 448 | 50% | — | ||
10Journal of Differential EquationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.90 0.01 down from 2015 | 1,117 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
11Communications in Partial Differential EquationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.87Q1 | 1.45 0.22 down from 2015 | 221 | 35% | — | ||
12Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.22 0.09 down from 2015 | 205 | 99% | $3,150 | ||
13Journal of Fourier Analysis and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.36 0.47 down from 2015 | 191 | 37% | $2,990 | ||
14Mathematische AnnalenSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 1.22 0.24 down from 2015 | 443 | 54% | $3,190 | ||
15Journal d Analyse MathématiqueSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 1.73Q1 | 1.28 0.23 down from 2015 | 103 | 48% | $3,090 | ||
16Journal of Mathematical Fluid MechanicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.63Q1 | 2.01 0.86 up from 2015 | 106 | 40% | $3,390 | ||
17Journal of Functional AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.32 0.07 down from 2015 | 844 | 100% | $3,250 | ||
18Mathematical and Computer ModellingPergamon Press · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | —no 2015 value | 75 | — | — | ||
19Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und PhysikBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.47Q1 | 2.16 0.66 up from 2015 | 291 | 26% | $3,590 | ||
20Revista Matemática ComplutenseSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 1.46Q1 | 1.17 0.48 up from 2015 | 69 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
21Nonlinear Analysis Real World ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 1.76 0.29 up from 2015 | 320 | 23% | $3,780 | ||
22Advances in Calculus of VariationsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.45Q1 | 1.49 0.34 up from 2015 | 57 | 48% | $2,712 | ||
23Milan Journal of MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 1.05 0.20 up from 2015 | 53 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
24Revista Matemática IberoamericanaOARoyal Spanish Mathematical Society | 1.37Q1 | 0.77 0.50 down from 2015 | 168 | 85% | — | ||
25Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications NoDEABirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.35Q1 | 1.57 0.89 up from 2015 | 139 | 99% | $3,190 | ||
26Analysis and ApplicationsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.33Q1 | 1.31 0.11 up from 2015 | 112 | 19% | — | ||
27Communications in Contemporary MathematicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.30Q1 | 0.94 0.10 down from 2015 | 200 | 55% | — | ||
28Journal of Evolution EquationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 1.22 0.29 up from 2015 | 127 | 43% | $2,990 | ||
29Nonlinear AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.17 0.01 down from 2015 | 898 | 38% | $2,690 | ||
30Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A MathematicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.26 0.20 up from 2015 | 187 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
31Kinetic and Related ModelsOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 1.25Q1 | 1.53 0.25 up from 2015 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
32Indiana University Mathematics JournalIndiana University · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.06 0.21 up from 2015 | 204 | 48% | — | ||
33Potential AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 1.03 0.01 up from 2015 | 190 | 50% | $3,190 | ||
34Journal of Hyperbolic Differential EquationsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.21Q1 | 1.20 0.07 up from 2015 | 79 | 46% | — | ||
35Integral Equations and Operator TheoryBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.18Q1 | 0.74 0.36 down from 2015 | 239 | 50% | $3,290 | ||
36Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (1923 -)Springer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.13Q1 | 1.03 0.38 up from 2015 | 226 | 71% | $3,190 | ||
37Journal of Integral Equations and ApplicationsRocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium · United States | 1.12Q1 | 1.06 0.06 up from 2015 | 73 | 90% | — | ||
38Collectanea mathematicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.11Q1 | 0.97 0.37 up from 2015 | 81 | 40% | $3,390 | ||
39Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ApplicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.11Q1 | 1.05 0.04 up from 2015 | 2,791 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
40Annals of Global Analysis and GeometrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.10Q1 | 0.95 0.23 up from 2015 | 123 | 44% | $3,190 | ||
41Journal of Approximation TheoryElsevier BV · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.04 0.02 up from 2015 | 276 | 100% | $2,910 | ||
42Advanced Nonlinear StudiesOADe Gruyter · United States | 1.06Q1 | 1.04 0.03 up from 2015 | 160 | 88% | $1,469 | ||
| 1.05Q1 | 0.77 0.22 down from 2015 | 111 | 85% | — | |||
44Communications in Mathematical SciencesInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.05Q1 | 1.36 0.04 down from 2015 | 230 | 69% | — | ||
45LIBERTAS MATHEMATICA (new series)Portugal | 1.04Q1 | 1.03 0.83 up from 2015 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
46Constructive ApproximationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.04Q1 | 0.90 0.58 down from 2015 | 136 | 48% | $3,090 | ||
47Applicable Analysis and Discrete MathematicsOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 1.03Q2 | 1.15 0.15 up from 2015 | 65 | 91% | — | ||
48Journal of Geometric AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.85 0.06 up from 2015 | 278 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
49Advances in Differential EquationsUnited States | 1.02Q2 | 0.99 0.13 up from 2015 | 110 | 44% | — | ||
50Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.02Q2 | 1.17 0.19 down from 2015 | 1,090 | 100% | $1,790 |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Applied Mathematics highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics182
- Geometry and Topology129
- Statistics and Probability128
- Mathematical Physics58
- Modeling and Simulation32
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics13
- Numerical Analysis6
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Applied Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 182
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,444 +17.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.71 -6.3% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 19
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 | 93 | 94 | 101 | 107 | 109 | 112 | 115 | 119 | 123 | 128 | 143 | 149 | 154 | 161 | 167 | 180 | 182 | 180 | 178 | 181 | 182 | 180 | 180 | 181 | 176 | 169 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,443 | 15,320 | 16,548 | 17,737 | 19,040 | 19,778 | 20,926 | 22,125 | 24,078 | 25,938 | 27,651 | 29,001 | 31,314 | 32,816 | 34,948 | 36,684 | 38,444 | 40,227 | 42,042 | 45,264 | 49,604 | 54,237 | 58,639 | 61,307 | 62,779 | 62,984 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.685 | 0.68 | 0.692 | 0.70 | 0.776 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.781 | 0.76 | 0.779 | 0.72 | 0.71 | 0.670 | 0.671 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.52 | 0.58 | 0.56 |
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.