Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Mathematics journal rankings 2016
575 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 575 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are Acta Mathematica, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Annals of Mathematics.
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 in Mathematics (10)
Up to Physical Sciences575 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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1Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 5.64Q1 | 3.45 0.96 down from 2015 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
2Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.49Q1 | 4.45 0.27 up from 2015 | 97 | 84% | — | ||
3Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 5.48Q1 | 4.68 0.79 up from 2015 | 136 | 50% | — | ||
4Publications mathématiques de l IHÉSSpringer Nature · Germany | 5.48Q1 | 3.06 1.04 down from 2015 | 33 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
5Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.01Q1 | 4.06 1.53 down from 2015 | 48 | 61% | $3,390 | ||
6Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.56Q1 | 3.53 0.45 up from 2015 | 189 | 79% | $3,090 | ||
7Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 3.70Q1 | 2.92 0.05 up from 2015 | 217 | 90% | — | ||
8Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 3.79 0.28 down from 2015 | 136 | 54% | $3,456 | ||
9Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.40Q1 | 3.98 0.24 up from 2015 | 163 | 32% | — | ||
10Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.96Q1 | 2.26 0.24 up from 2015 | 149 | 67% | $2,390 | ||
11The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.89Q1 | 3.64 0.25 down from 2015 | 302 | 83% | — | ||
12Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.83Q1 | 2.32 0.66 down from 2015 | 122 | 81% | — | ||
13Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 2.25 0.13 down from 2015 | 477 | 44% | $4,570 | ||
14Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 3.06 0.42 up from 2015 | 168 | 51% | $5,230 | ||
15American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.74Q1 | 4.13 1.31 down from 2015 | 1,005 | 68% | $4,856 | ||
16BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 4.97 0.27 up from 2015 | 397 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
17Journal of Uncertainty Analysis and ApplicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.68Q1 | 3.70 0.26 up from 2015 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 2.65Q1 | 2.70 0.52 up from 2015 | 160 | 39% | $3,456 | ||
19The Annals of ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.55 0.01 up from 2015 | 270 | 93% | — | ||
20Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.45Q1 | 2.83 0.54 up from 2015 | 353 | 74% | $3,090 | ||
21Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 2.40Q1 | 2.09 0.15 up from 2015 | 225 | 86% | — | ||
22Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 2.38Q1 | 2.08 0.33 up from 2015 | 90 | 63% | — | ||
23Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.33Q1 | 1.81 0.48 up from 2015 | 55 | 55% | — | ||
24EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.31Q1 | 3.82 0.10 down from 2015 | 583 | 65% | — | ||
25Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.29Q1 | 2.19 0.89 up from 2015 | 76 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
26Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.25Q1 | 2.97 0.24 up from 2015 | 859 | 88% | $2,990 | ||
27Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.80 0.23 up from 2015 | 165 | 79% | — | ||
28Research in the Mathematical SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 2.20Q1 | 2.03 1.12 down from 2015 | 38 | 98% | $4,090 | ||
29Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.12Q1 | 1.42 0.02 down from 2015 | 223 | 59% | — | ||
30American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.12Q1 | 1.41 0.06 down from 2015 | 148 | 60% | — | ||
31Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 2.11Q1 | 2.21 0.59 up from 2015 | 203 | 93% | $700 | ||
32Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 1.97 0.67 up from 2015 | 338 | 39% | $3,190 | ||
33EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 4.19 0.90 up from 2015 | 101 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
34Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 1.67 0.29 up from 2015 | 201 | 89% | — | ||
35Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 2.06Q1 | 1.68no change | 217 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
36Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 2.35 1.00 down from 2015 | 74 | 17% | $2,490 | ||
37Probability Theory and Related FieldsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.02Q1 | 1.82 0.55 down from 2015 | 205 | 59% | $3,090 | ||
38Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 1.56 0.41 down from 2015 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
39The Annals of Applied ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.35 0.15 down from 2015 | 249 | 97% | — | ||
40CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems PharmacologyOANature Portfolio · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.02 0.10 down from 2015 | 222 | 100% | $4,140 | ||
41Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.97Q1 | 3.33 0.78 up from 2015 | 56 | 44% | $4,090 | ||
42SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.20 0.35 up from 2015 | 448 | 50% | — | ||
43Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.96Q1 | 2.95 0.88 up from 2015 | 288 | 57% | — | ||
44Journal of Differential EquationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.90 0.01 down from 2015 | 1,117 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
45The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.89Q1 | 1.82 0.01 down from 2015 | 201 | 96% | $3,900 | ||
46Communications in Partial Differential EquationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.87Q1 | 1.45 0.22 down from 2015 | 221 | 35% | — | ||
47Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.22 0.09 down from 2015 | 205 | 99% | $3,150 | ||
48Journal of Fourier Analysis and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.36 0.47 down from 2015 | 191 | 37% | $2,990 | ||
49Selecta MathematicaBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.83Q1 | 1.45 0.01 up from 2015 | 95 | 63% | $3,190 | ||
50Fractional Calculus and Applied AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.82Q1 | 2.80 0.20 up from 2015 | 199 | 38% | $2,590 |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- 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.
136 additional 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
- 575
- Window papers (baseline)
- 155,762 +14.8% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.74 -5.1% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
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 | 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.