Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Geometry and Topology journal rankings 2020
133 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Geometry and Topology has 133 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2019 to 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.90. The top three are Annals of Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Inventiones mathematicae.
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)
133 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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1Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.93Q1 | 3.13 0.01 up from 2019 | 106 | 60% | — | ||
2Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 3.77Q1 | 2.30 1.75 down from 2019 | 67 | 50% | — | ||
3Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 2.07 0.34 down from 2019 | 205 | 82% | $3,090 | ||
4Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.23 0.12 down from 2019 | 188 | 84% | — | ||
5Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.65 0.04 down from 2019 | 233 | 83% | — | ||
6Journal of TopologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.56 0.07 up from 2019 | 113 | 80% | $3,930 | ||
7Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.82Q1 | 2.05 0.72 up from 2019 | 126 | 79% | $2,390 | ||
8Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018)Publisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 0.65 0.65 up from 2019 | 214 | — | — | ||
9Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.55Q1 | 1.55 0.49 down from 2019 | 126 | 69% | — | ||
10Journal of Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.53Q1 | 1.88 0.21 up from 2019 | 341 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
11Forum of Mathematics SigmaOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.00 0.52 down from 2019 | 103 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
12Fixed Point TheoryOABabeș-Bolyai University · Romania | 1.46Q1 | 1.79 0.48 up from 2019 | 170 | 100% | — | ||
13SymmetryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.38Q1 | 3.22 0.30 down from 2019 | 2,681 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
14Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.36Q1 | 1.90 0.19 up from 2019 | 70 | 100% | $1,214 | ||
15Evolutionary BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.34Q1 | 3.57 0.07 up from 2019 | 82 | 48% | $2,290 | ||
16Advances in MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.33Q1 | 1.28 0.11 up from 2019 | 1,169 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
17Proceedings of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.11 0.23 down from 2019 | 265 | 77% | $4,700 | ||
18Arkiv för matematikOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Sweden | 1.28Q1 | 0.44 0.27 down from 2019 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
19Compositio MathematicaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.04 0.04 down from 2019 | 324 | 87% | $3,450 | ||
20Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 1.22Q1 | 1.31 0.07 up from 2019 | 274 | 74% | — | ||
21Publicacions MatemàtiquesAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 1.21Q1 | 0.87 0.15 down from 2019 | 67 | 96% | — | ||
22Algebraic & Geometric TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.20Q1 | 0.91 0.02 down from 2019 | 324 | 92% | — | ||
23Journal of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 1.02 0.07 down from 2019 | 261 | 81% | $3,930 | ||
24Quantum TopologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.19Q1 | 0.94 0.29 up from 2019 | 48 | 46% | — | ||
25Communications in Number Theory and PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.18Q1 | 1.17 0.47 down from 2019 | 59 | 65% | — | ||
26Algebra & Number TheoryMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.13Q1 | 0.82 0.29 down from 2019 | 211 | 72% | — | ||
27Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.04Q1 | 0.78 0.16 down from 2019 | 64 | 59% | — | ||
28Transactions of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.01Q1 | 0.87 0.02 down from 2019 | 930 | 64% | — | ||
29Izvestiya MathematicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.99Q1 | 0.90 0.03 down from 2019 | 159 | 22% | — | ||
30Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal)De Gruyter · Germany | 0.98Q1 | 0.70 0.34 down from 2019 | 132 | 57% | $2,712 | ||
31Bulletin of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q1 | 0.93 0.13 up from 2019 | 283 | 78% | $3,930 | ||
32Research in the Mathematical SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.92Q1 | 1.21 0.19 up from 2019 | 109 | 61% | $4,090 | ||
33Russian Mathematical SurveysIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.90Q1 | 1.17 0.20 up from 2019 | 153 | 25% | — | ||
34Selecta MathematicaBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.90Q1 | 0.78 0.16 down from 2019 | 237 | 71% | $3,190 | ||
35Letters in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.89Q2 | 1.29 0.20 down from 2019 | 297 | 89% | $2,990 | ||
36Journal of Combinatorial AlgebraOAEMS Press | 0.89Q2 | 0.88 0.13 up from 2019 | 31 | 69% | — | ||
37Canadian Journal of MathematicsCambridge University Press · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.64 0.07 up from 2019 | 175 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
38Algebraic geometryOAFoundation Compositio Mathematica | 0.88Q2 | 0.84 0.13 up from 2019 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Geometry and PhysicsElsevier BV · Italy | 0.83Q2 | 1.35 0.24 up from 2019 | 642 | 97% | $3,550 | ||
40Pacific Journal of MathematicsMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 0.83Q2 | 0.74 0.05 up from 2019 | 375 | 63% | — | ||
41Journal de l’École polytechnique — MathématiquesOACellule MathDoc/CEDRAM · France | 0.83Q2 | 0.95 0.03 down from 2019 | 75 | 100% | — | ||
42Annales de l’institut FourierOAAssociation of the Annals of the Fourier Institute · France | 0.81Q2 | 0.87 0.22 up from 2019 | 228 | 100% | — | ||
43Documenta MathematicaOAGermany | 0.81Q2 | 0.69 0.03 down from 2019 | 178 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Mathematical LogicWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.81Q2 | 0.92 0.14 up from 2019 | 52 | 64% | — | ||
45International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical SciencesOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.38 0.54 up from 2019 | 98 | 100% | $1,240 | ||
46Mathematische ZeitschriftSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.77Q2 | 0.63no change | 601 | 69% | $3,290 | ||
47Sbornik MathematicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.90 0.15 up from 2019 | 236 | 27% | — | ||
48Surveys in Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 0.76Q2 | 1.05 0.73 up from 2019 | 33 | 44% | — | ||
49Israel Journal of MathematicsHebrew University of Jerusalem · Israel | 0.76Q2 | 0.63no change | 498 | 66% | $3,290 | ||
50Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of JussieuCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 0.56 0.04 down from 2019 | 176 | 88% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Geometry and Topology 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.
23 additional Geometry and Topology 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
- 133
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,717 +5.6% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.59 -17.9% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 80 | 82 | 86 | 91 | 91 | 92 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 104 | 106 | 109 | 113 | 114 | 116 | 118 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 131 | 133 | 132 | 141 | 140 | 137 | 137 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,020 | 14,712 | 15,366 | 15,875 | 16,546 | 16,822 | 17,353 | 17,667 | 18,610 | 19,949 | 20,929 | 21,827 | 22,902 | 23,775 | 25,317 | 26,191 | 27,568 | 28,144 | 28,493 | 28,895 | 29,717 | 30,580 | 31,573 | 32,066 | 31,951 | 31,316 | |
| Median OJR | 0.85 | 0.87 | 0.959 | 1.03 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 0.88 | 0.99 | 1.01 | 0.964 | 0.910 | 0.913 | 0.83 | 0.824 | 0.8157 | 0.79 | 0.8160 | 0.72 | 0.6525 | 0.6527 | 0.59 | 0.55 | 0.52 | 0.49 | 0.54 | 0.57 |
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.