Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Mathematics journal rankings 2019
593 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 593 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 0.95. The top three are Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Annals of Mathematics, and Acta Mathematica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 Sciences593 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.69Q1 | 4.05 0.39 down from 2018 | 60 | 77% | — | ||
2Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 4.79Q1 | 3.12 0.59 down from 2018 | 109 | 61% | — | ||
3Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 4.45Q1 | 3.42 0.63 up from 2018 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
4Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.26Q1 | 6.85 2.59 up from 2018 | 52 | 65% | $3,390 | ||
5Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.56Q1 | 2.41 0.23 down from 2018 | 191 | 75% | $3,090 | ||
6Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.52Q1 | 2.91 0.06 up from 2018 | 166 | 63% | — | ||
7The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.32Q1 | 2.46 2.66 down from 2018 | 209 | 64% | — | ||
8Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.97Q1 | 2.35 0.05 up from 2018 | 186 | 100% | — | ||
9American Journal of Theoretical and Applied StatisticsOAScience Publishing Group · United States | 2.56Q1 | 0.30 2.01 down from 2018 | 140 | 100% | — | ||
10Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 3.74 1.68 up from 2018 | 56 | 41% | $4,463 | ||
11Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 3.10 0.21 down from 2018 | 136 | 56% | $3,456 | ||
12Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.32Q1 | 4.34 1.20 up from 2018 | 199 | 36% | — | ||
13Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 2.24Q1 | 3.91 0.73 up from 2018 | 492 | 69% | — | ||
14Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 2.58 2.01 down from 2018 | 71 | 0% | $2,490 | ||
15American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.21Q1 | 4.56 0.37 up from 2018 | 920 | 70% | $4,856 | ||
16Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Royal Statistical Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.65 0.93 down from 2018 | 242 | 42% | $3,456 | ||
17Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.19Q1 | 2.43 1.02 up from 2018 | 87 | 57% | — | ||
18Statistics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 2.20 0.77 down from 2018 | 210 | 77% | $2,890 | ||
19Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.16Q1 | 2.69 0.26 up from 2018 | 51 | 68% | $3,290 | ||
20The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.75 0.67 up from 2018 | 208 | 95% | $3,900 | ||
21Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 1.94 0.06 up from 2018 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
22Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.04 0.90 up from 2018 | 133 | 84% | — | ||
23BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 4.63 1.03 up from 2018 | 517 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
24Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.71 0.07 up from 2018 | 218 | 67% | — | ||
25Forum of Mathematics SigmaOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 1.52 0.16 up from 2018 | 89 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
26Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 1.69 0.07 up from 2018 | 229 | 88% | — | ||
27Journal of TopologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 1.49 0.11 up from 2018 | 106 | 87% | $3,930 | ||
28Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 2.19 0.09 up from 2018 | 417 | 51% | $4,570 | ||
29American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.87Q1 | 1.44 0.05 up from 2018 | 136 | 71% | — | ||
30Publicacions MatemàtiquesAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 1.83Q1 | 1.02 0.46 up from 2018 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
31Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.81Q1 | 1.33 0.01 down from 2018 | 118 | 58% | $2,390 | ||
32The Quantitative Methods for PsychologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.81Q1 | 1.69 0.91 down from 2018 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
33EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.44 0.34 up from 2018 | 527 | 19% | — | ||
34Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.88 1.39 up from 2018 | 139 | 77% | — | ||
35FractalsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.76Q1 | 4.49 0.72 up from 2018 | 294 | 8% | — | ||
36The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.23 0.56 down from 2018 | 321 | 87% | — | ||
37International Statistical ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.11 0.72 down from 2018 | 105 | 37% | $4,880 | ||
38The Annals of ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.64 0.49 down from 2018 | 302 | 94% | — | ||
39Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.67Q1 | 1.53 0.03 up from 2018 | 144 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
40Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.66Q1 | 3.82 0.57 up from 2018 | 115 | 49% | $4,090 | ||
41Fractional Calculus and Applied AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 3.30 0.59 down from 2018 | 241 | 42% | $2,590 | ||
42Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 2.29 0.08 up from 2018 | 713 | 90% | $2,990 | ||
43Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.63Q1 | 1.70 0.19 down from 2018 | 508 | 48% | $3,190 | ||
44Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.60Q1 | 2.18 0.12 down from 2018 | 379 | 81% | $3,090 | ||
45EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 3.81 0.53 up from 2018 | 121 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
46Algebra & Number TheoryMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.59Q1 | 1.11 0.13 up from 2018 | 207 | 83% | — | ||
47Nonlinear Analysis Modelling and ControlOAElsevier BV · Lithuania | 1.55Q1 | 2.64 0.44 up from 2018 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
48Journal of Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.53Q1 | 1.66 0.50 up from 2018 | 354 | 15% | $3,090 | ||
49SymmetryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 3.53 0.65 up from 2018 | 1,278 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
50Journal of Differential EquationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 1.97 0.04 up from 2018 | 1,472 | 100% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics181
- Statistics and Probability134
- Geometry and Topology131
- Mathematical Physics61
- Modeling and Simulation37
- Algebra and Number Theory26
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics14
- Numerical Analysis7
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
124 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 593
- Window papers (baseline)
- 168,439 +8.1% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.637 -14.0% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.