Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Applied Mathematics journal rankings 2020
182 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Applied Mathematics has 182 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 0.88. The top three are Advances in Nonlinear Analysis, Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences, and Constructive Mathematical Analysis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.54Q1 | 5.25 3.72 up from 2019 | 132 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
2Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.50Q1 | 2.10 0.16 up from 2019 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
3Constructive Mathematical AnalysisOASüleyman Demirel University · Türkiye | 2.19Q1 | 2.83 1.37 down from 2019 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
4Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.97Q1 | 2.39 0.30 down from 2019 | 58 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
5Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.32 0.61 up from 2019 | 175 | 86% | — | ||
6Journal of Inequalities and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.56Q1 | 2.61 0.92 up from 2019 | 987 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
7Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A MatemáticasSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.55Q1 | 2.42 1.08 up from 2019 | 394 | 32% | $3,390 | ||
8Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.92 0.01 down from 2019 | 161 | 52% | $5,230 | ||
9Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 2.29 0.11 up from 2019 | 393 | 87% | $3,090 | ||
10Applicable Analysis and Discrete MathematicsOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 1.37Q1 | 1.27 0.34 down from 2019 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
11Advances in Calculus of VariationsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.35Q1 | 1.82 0.43 up from 2019 | 76 | 84% | $2,712 | ||
12Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.35Q1 | 1.58 0.12 down from 2019 | 570 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
13Nonlinear Analysis Modelling and ControlOAElsevier BV · Lithuania | 1.34Q1 | 3.05 0.40 up from 2019 | 166 | 100% | — | ||
14Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.33Q1 | 3.34 0.30 up from 2019 | 1,394 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
15Journal of Differential EquationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 1.89 0.09 down from 2019 | 1,517 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
16Nonlinear Analysis Real World ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 2.34 0.43 up from 2019 | 481 | 25% | $3,780 | ||
17Journal of Functional AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.36 0.06 down from 2019 | 685 | 98% | $3,250 | ||
18AxiomsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.20Q1 | 2.30 0.14 up from 2019 | 268 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
19Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 1.20Q1 | 1.64no change | 290 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
20Journal of Function SpacesOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.79 0.07 down from 2019 | 363 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
21Analysis and Mathematical PhysicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.18Q1 | 1.30 0.31 down from 2019 | 177 | 40% | $3,290 | ||
22Nonlinear AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 1.55 0.03 up from 2019 | 727 | 38% | $2,690 | ||
23Boundary Value ProblemsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.16Q1 | 1.99 0.10 up from 2019 | 570 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
24Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 1.15Q1 | 1.36 0.14 down from 2019 | 160 | 63% | $700 | ||
25Mathematische AnnalenSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.09Q1 | 1.09 0.26 up from 2019 | 417 | 72% | $3,190 | ||
26Mathematical Methods in the Applied SciencesWiley · Germany | 1.08Q1 | 2.34 0.41 up from 2019 | 1,668 | 18% | $5,000 | ||
27AIMS MathematicsOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 1.08Q1 | 2.37 1.42 up from 2019 | 254 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
28Demonstratio MathematicaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.08Q1 | 2.03 1.24 up from 2019 | 104 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
29Mediterranean Journal of MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.07Q1 | 1.25 0.01 down from 2019 | 634 | 32% | $3,190 | ||
30Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.03Q1 | 1.89 0.30 up from 2019 | 178 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
31Advanced Nonlinear StudiesOADe Gruyter · United States | 1.02Q1 | 1.10 0.14 up from 2019 | 133 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
32Communications in Partial Differential EquationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.01Q1 | 1.11no change | 189 | 67% | — | ||
33Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ApplicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.00Q1 | 1.31 0.08 up from 2019 | 2,693 | 98% | $3,190 | ||
34Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und PhysikBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.98Q1 | 2.06 0.15 up from 2019 | 473 | 31% | $3,590 | ||
35Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications NoDEABirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.97Q1 | 1.10 0.18 down from 2019 | 179 | 65% | $3,190 | ||
36Communications in Contemporary MathematicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.95Q1 | 0.91 0.22 down from 2019 | 256 | 58% | — | ||
37Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Malaysia | 0.95Q1 | 1.25 0.33 up from 2019 | 431 | 20% | $3,190 | ||
38Banach Journal of Mathematical AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.94Q1 | 0.95 0.17 down from 2019 | 147 | 34% | $3,290 | ||
39Results in MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.94Q1 | 1.16 0.12 up from 2019 | 505 | 48% | $3,090 | ||
40Communications on Pure & Applied AnalysisOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 0.93Q1 | 1.45 0.43 up from 2019 | 457 | 100% | — | ||
41Science China MathematicsSpringer Nature · China | 0.90Q1 | 1.20 0.03 up from 2019 | 467 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
42Journal of Fourier Analysis and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · United States | 0.89Q1 | 1.26 0.33 up from 2019 | 173 | 63% | $2,990 | ||
43Milan Journal of MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.88Q1 | 1.23 0.51 down from 2019 | 44 | 71% | $3,090 | ||
44Collectanea mathematicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.88Q1 | 0.68no change | 83 | 69% | $3,390 | ||
45Discrete AnalysisOADiamond Open Access Journals · United Kingdom | 0.88Q1 | 0.75 0.55 down from 2019 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
46Analysis and ApplicationsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.88Q1 | 1.47 0.01 up from 2019 | 92 | 35% | — | ||
47Revista Matemática IberoamericanaOARoyal Spanish Mathematical Society | 0.88Q2 | 0.88 0.04 up from 2019 | 224 | 65% | — | ||
48Journal of Mathematical Fluid MechanicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.87Q2 | 1.34 0.51 up from 2019 | 164 | 43% | $3,390 | ||
49SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.50 0.13 up from 2019 | 523 | 60% | — | ||
50Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A MathematicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.01 0.25 up from 2019 | 329 | 54% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Applied Mathematics highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics182
- Statistics and Probability136
- Geometry and Topology133
- Mathematical Physics63
- Modeling and Simulation38
- Algebra and Number Theory26
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics15
- Numerical Analysis7
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Applied Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 182
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,604 +23.3% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.65 -3.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 19
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.