Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Applied Mathematics journal rankings 2018
178 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Applied Mathematics has 178 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.94. The top three are Annals of PDE, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, and Analysis & PDE.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
178 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.32Q1 | 2.43 0.84 up from 2017 | 42 | 71% | $3,290 | ||
2Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 2.27Q1 | 1.90 1.19 down from 2017 | 142 | 55% | $5,230 | ||
3Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.64 0.15 down from 2017 | 194 | 85% | — | ||
4Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 1.95Q1 | 1.88 0.97 up from 2017 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
5Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 1.90 0.04 down from 2017 | 462 | 58% | $3,190 | ||
6Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 2.30 0.30 down from 2017 | 368 | 77% | $3,090 | ||
7Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 1.50 0.51 down from 2017 | 146 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
8Journal of Differential EquationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 1.94 0.27 up from 2017 | 1,447 | 99% | $3,550 | ||
9Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 1.69Q1 | 1.19 0.43 down from 2017 | 160 | 77% | $700 | ||
10Journal of Functional AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.30 0.15 up from 2017 | 765 | 100% | $3,250 | ||
11Nonlinear Analysis Real World ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 1.97 0.09 up from 2017 | 399 | 21% | $3,780 | ||
12Mathematische AnnalenSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.45Q1 | 0.93 0.06 down from 2017 | 452 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
13Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und PhysikBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.39Q1 | 2.16 0.23 up from 2017 | 407 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
14Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications NoDEABirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 1.39 0.30 up from 2017 | 184 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
15Communications in Partial Differential EquationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.36 0.03 up from 2017 | 182 | 66% | — | ||
16Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 1.35Q1 | 1.38 0.02 down from 2017 | 232 | 99% | $2,900 | ||
17SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.41 0.40 down from 2017 | 460 | 51% | — | ||
18Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.60 0.66 down from 2017 | 225 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
19Analysis and Mathematical PhysicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.28Q1 | 1.40 0.29 up from 2017 | 106 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
20Nonlinear Analysis Modelling and ControlOAElsevier BV · Lithuania | 1.23Q1 | 2.21 1.23 up from 2017 | 147 | 100% | — | ||
21Mediterranean Journal of MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.23Q1 | 1.26 0.01 down from 2017 | 545 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
22Nonlinear AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 1.34 0.22 up from 2017 | 753 | 28% | $2,690 | ||
23Journal of Mathematical Fluid MechanicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.17Q1 | 0.99 0.34 down from 2017 | 159 | 33% | $3,390 | ||
24Advanced Nonlinear StudiesOADe Gruyter · United States | 1.15Q1 | 1.19 0.24 up from 2017 | 172 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
25Opuscula MathematicaOAAGH University of Science and Technology · Poland | 1.15Q1 | 1.35 0.49 up from 2017 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
26Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (1923 -)Springer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.10Q1 | 0.89 0.05 down from 2017 | 241 | 84% | $3,190 | ||
27Communications in Contemporary MathematicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.09Q1 | 0.83 0.25 down from 2017 | 248 | 52% | — | ||
28Journal of Fourier Analysis and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.06 0.44 down from 2017 | 204 | 47% | $2,990 | ||
29Bulletin des Sciences MathématiquesElsevier BV · France | 1.07Q1 | 0.85 0.28 up from 2017 | 90 | 97% | $2,690 | ||
30Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.06Q1 | 2.09 0.47 up from 2017 | 1,097 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
31Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ApplicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.06Q1 | 1.11 0.06 up from 2017 | 2,781 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
32Science China MathematicsSpringer Nature · China | 1.03Q1 | 1.15 0.07 up from 2017 | 460 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
33Applicable Analysis and Discrete MathematicsOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 1.03Q1 | 1.37 0.35 up from 2017 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
34Boundary Value ProblemsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.03Q1 | 1.57 0.60 up from 2017 | 647 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
35Mathematische NachrichtenWiley · Germany | 1.02Q1 | 0.80 0.06 up from 2017 | 506 | 42% | $3,460 | ||
36Constructive ApproximationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.01Q1 | 1.11 0.08 up from 2017 | 136 | 58% | $3,090 | ||
37Banach Journal of Mathematical AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.00Q1 | 0.87 0.15 up from 2017 | 199 | 92% | $3,290 | ||
38Journal of Geometric AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.98Q1 | 0.69 0.26 down from 2017 | 410 | 57% | $3,290 | ||
39Mathematical Methods in the Applied SciencesWiley · Germany | 0.97Q1 | 1.53 0.37 up from 2017 | 1,250 | 22% | $5,000 | ||
40Revista Matemática ComplutenseSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 0.96Q1 | 0.70 0.28 down from 2017 | 87 | 54% | $3,190 | ||
41Qualitative Theory of Dynamical SystemsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.96Q1 | 1.18 0.18 up from 2017 | 127 | 24% | $3,390 | ||
42Revista Matemática IberoamericanaOARoyal Spanish Mathematical Society | 0.96Q1 | 0.91 0.17 down from 2017 | 155 | 59% | — | ||
43Analysis and ApplicationsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.95Q1 | 1.33 0.26 up from 2017 | 81 | 28% | — | ||
44Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A MatemáticasSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.95Q1 | 0.95 0.10 up from 2017 | 269 | 24% | $3,390 | ||
45Potential AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.94Q1 | 0.94 0.16 up from 2017 | 205 | 55% | $3,190 | ||
46Discrete AnalysisOADiamond Open Access Journals · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 0.88 0.07 down from 2017 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
47Communications in Mathematical SciencesInternational Press of Boston · United States | 0.93Q2 | 1.31 0.24 down from 2017 | 262 | 39% | — | ||
48Results in MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.92Q2 | 1.03 0.09 up from 2017 | 328 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
49Advances in Differential EquationsUnited States | 0.92Q2 | 0.95 0.11 down from 2017 | 95 | 24% | — | ||
50Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae MathematicaFinnish Academy of Science and Letters · Finland | 0.91Q2 | 0.71 0.14 down from 2017 | 182 | 95% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Applied Mathematics highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics178
- Statistics and Probability135
- Geometry and Topology133
- Mathematical Physics60
- Modeling and Simulation36
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics13
- Numerical Analysis6
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
27 additional Applied Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 178
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,042 +14.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.671 -6.2% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 19
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.