Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Mathematics journal rankings 2020
602 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 602 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 0.88. The top three are Mathematical Programming Computation, Annals of Mathematics, and Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
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 in Mathematics (10)
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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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1Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.28Q1 | 8.10 1.24 up from 2019 | 54 | 68% | $3,390 | ||
2Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.93Q1 | 3.13 0.01 up from 2019 | 106 | 60% | — | ||
3Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 3.77Q1 | 2.30 1.75 down from 2019 | 67 | 50% | — | ||
4The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.63Q1 | 7.77 5.32 up from 2019 | 244 | 41% | — | ||
5Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 3.54Q1 | 5.25 3.72 up from 2019 | 132 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
6Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 3.71 0.30 up from 2019 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
7Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 1.43 2.31 down from 2019 | 59 | 61% | $4,463 | ||
8Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.60Q1 | 2.74 0.17 down from 2019 | 174 | 61% | — | ||
9Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 2.07 0.34 down from 2019 | 205 | 82% | $3,090 | ||
10Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 6.63 4.05 up from 2019 | 47 | 24% | $2,490 | ||
11Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.50Q1 | 2.10 0.16 up from 2019 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
12Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.23 0.12 down from 2019 | 188 | 84% | — | ||
13Infectious Disease ModellingOAKeAi · China | 2.37Q1 | 2.58 0.71 down from 2019 | 79 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
14The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.14 0.38 up from 2019 | 204 | 89% | $3,900 | ||
15BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 6.38 1.75 up from 2019 | 590 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
16Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.19Q1 | 3.88 0.46 down from 2019 | 221 | 40% | — | ||
17Constructive Mathematical AnalysisOASüleyman Demirel University · Türkiye | 2.19Q1 | 2.83 1.37 down from 2019 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 2.13Q1 | 3.12 0.79 down from 2019 | 470 | 66% | — | ||
19EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 5.60 1.79 up from 2019 | 147 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
20Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.65 0.04 down from 2019 | 233 | 83% | — | ||
21Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.49 0.39 up from 2019 | 106 | 60% | $3,456 | ||
22Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.97Q1 | 2.39 0.30 down from 2019 | 58 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
23American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.95Q1 | 3.98 0.57 down from 2019 | 826 | 78% | $4,856 | ||
24Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.90Q1 | 1.74 2.14 down from 2019 | 141 | 90% | — | ||
25Journal of TopologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.56 0.07 up from 2019 | 113 | 80% | $3,930 | ||
26Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.82Q1 | 2.05 0.72 up from 2019 | 126 | 79% | $2,390 | ||
27Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018)Publisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 0.65 0.65 up from 2019 | 214 | — | — | ||
28Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.32 0.61 up from 2019 | 175 | 86% | — | ||
29Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 2.42 0.23 up from 2019 | 454 | 56% | $4,570 | ||
30Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.64Q1 | 3.85 0.04 up from 2019 | 125 | 68% | $4,090 | ||
31International Statistical ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.96 0.15 down from 2019 | 92 | 36% | $4,880 | ||
32Journal of Inequalities and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.56Q1 | 2.61 0.92 up from 2019 | 987 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
33Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.55Q1 | 1.55 0.49 down from 2019 | 126 | 69% | — | ||
34Revista 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 | ||
35Journal of Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.53Q1 | 1.88 0.21 up from 2019 | 341 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
36EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.39 0.05 down from 2019 | 527 | 35% | — | ||
37American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.31 0.14 down from 2019 | 131 | 70% | — | ||
38The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.87 0.63 up from 2019 | 338 | 90% | — | ||
39Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.58 0.85 down from 2019 | 101 | 42% | — | ||
40Forum of Mathematics SigmaOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.00 0.52 down from 2019 | 103 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
41Fixed Point TheoryOABabeș-Bolyai University · Romania | 1.46Q1 | 1.79 0.48 up from 2019 | 170 | 100% | — | ||
42Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.44Q1 | 3.32 0.29 up from 2019 | 229 | 59% | — | ||
43PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.53 0.12 down from 2019 | 126 | 52% | $3,550 | ||
44Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.92 0.01 down from 2019 | 161 | 52% | $5,230 | ||
45FractalsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.42Q1 | 3.54 0.95 down from 2019 | 387 | 17% | — | ||
46Fractional Calculus and Applied AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 3.17 0.12 down from 2019 | 245 | 53% | $2,590 | ||
47Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 1.99 0.30 down from 2019 | 795 | 91% | $2,990 | ||
48Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 2.29 0.11 up from 2019 | 393 | 87% | $3,090 | ||
49Statistics and Public PolicyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.38Q1 | 2.17 0.57 up from 2019 | 41 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
50SymmetryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.38Q1 | 3.22 0.30 down from 2019 | 2,681 | 100% | $2,896 |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- 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.
113 additional 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
- 602
- Window papers (baseline)
- 176,105 +10.3% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.62 -10.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
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 | 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.