Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Mathematics journal rankings 2017
584 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 584 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2016 to 0.69, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Annals of Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Acta Mathematica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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.
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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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 6.23Q1 | 4.29 0.39 down from 2016 | 131 | 53% | — | ||
2Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 6.06Q1 | 3.70 0.74 down from 2016 | 96 | 68% | — | ||
3Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 4.80Q1 | 3.36 0.09 down from 2016 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
4Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.25Q1 | 2.85 0.68 down from 2016 | 212 | 82% | $3,090 | ||
5Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.20Q1 | 3.18 0.88 down from 2016 | 52 | 50% | $3,390 | ||
6Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 4.16Q1 | 2.71 0.01 up from 2016 | 178 | 40% | $3,456 | ||
7Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 3.40Q1 | 2.55 0.37 down from 2016 | 215 | 93% | — | ||
8Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.38Q1 | 3.40 0.57 down from 2016 | 185 | 30% | — | ||
9Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.99Q1 | 2.08 0.18 down from 2016 | 141 | 63% | $2,390 | ||
10Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 2.30 0.05 up from 2016 | 476 | 41% | $4,570 | ||
11Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 2.71Q1 | 3.09 0.03 up from 2016 | 146 | 47% | $5,230 | ||
12The Annals of ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.68Q1 | 2.45 0.11 down from 2016 | 248 | 84% | — | ||
13The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.68Q1 | 3.03 0.60 down from 2016 | 275 | 84% | — | ||
14BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 3.83 1.14 down from 2016 | 411 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
15Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 3.08 0.73 up from 2016 | 86 | 12% | $2,490 | ||
16Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 2.36 1.43 down from 2016 | 153 | 40% | $3,456 | ||
17The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.12 3.11 up from 2016 | 201 | 37% | — | ||
18Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.59 0.28 up from 2016 | 80 | 27% | $3,460 | ||
19Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.31Q1 | 0.91 0.66 down from 2016 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
20Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 2.30Q1 | 1.84 0.23 down from 2016 | 103 | 69% | — | ||
21Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.26Q1 | 3.70 0.37 up from 2016 | 88 | 68% | $4,090 | ||
22American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.26Q1 | 3.51 0.62 down from 2016 | 942 | 78% | $4,856 | ||
23EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.30 0.53 down from 2016 | 582 | 34% | — | ||
24Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.15 0.74 up from 2016 | 239 | 54% | — | ||
25Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 2.11Q1 | 1.57 0.51 down from 2016 | 235 | 72% | — | ||
26Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 2.60 0.24 down from 2016 | 360 | 82% | $3,090 | ||
27Journal of Uncertainty Analysis and ApplicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 2.83 0.87 down from 2016 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
28Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.06Q1 | 2.01 0.18 down from 2016 | 127 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
29American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.46 0.05 up from 2016 | 142 | 73% | — | ||
30Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 2.04Q1 | 1.79 0.01 down from 2016 | 172 | 80% | — | ||
31The Annals of Applied ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.20 0.16 down from 2016 | 280 | 85% | — | ||
32Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.99Q1 | 1.66 0.37 up from 2016 | 84 | 53% | — | ||
33Research in the Mathematical SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 1.40 0.63 down from 2016 | 79 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
34Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 1.44 0.23 down from 2016 | 199 | 93% | — | ||
35The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.81 0.99 up from 2016 | 208 | 76% | $3,900 | ||
36Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.96Q1 | 2.23 0.75 down from 2016 | 924 | 87% | $2,990 | ||
37Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.95Q1 | 1.93 0.04 down from 2016 | 381 | 47% | $3,190 | ||
38Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.26 0.04 up from 2016 | 221 | 99% | $3,150 | ||
39Fractional Calculus and Applied AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 3.13 0.34 up from 2016 | 218 | 49% | $2,590 | ||
40Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.61 0.29 up from 2016 | 143 | 64% | — | ||
41EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.54 1.65 down from 2016 | 114 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
42Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.86Q1 | 2.99 0.04 up from 2016 | 256 | 46% | — | ||
43Journal of Econometric MethodsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.75 0.49 up from 2016 | 33 | 20% | $2,712 | ||
44PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.40 0.15 down from 2016 | 140 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
45Probability Theory and Related FieldsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 1.60 0.22 down from 2016 | 199 | 72% | $3,090 | ||
46Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.77 0.46 up from 2016 | 50 | 33% | $4,463 | ||
47Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.77Q1 | 0.83 0.99 down from 2016 | 61 | 39% | — | ||
48Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 1.75Q1 | 2.22 0.02 up from 2016 | 525 | 72% | — | ||
49Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.12 0.23 down from 2016 | 145 | 90% | — | ||
50Journal of Fourier Analysis and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · United States | 1.70Q1 | 1.50 0.14 up from 2016 | 202 | 43% | $2,990 |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics180
- Geometry and Topology131
- Statistics and Probability131
- Mathematical Physics61
- Modeling and Simulation35
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics13
- Numerical Analysis6
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
127 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 584
- Window papers (baseline)
- 159,703 +11.1% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.69 -14.0% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.