Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Applied Mathematics journal rankings 2021
180 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Applied Mathematics has 180 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2020 to 0.57, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.78. The top three are Advances in Nonlinear Analysis, Analysis & PDE, and Constructive Mathematical Analysis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
180 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.43Q1 | 4.03 1.22 down from 2020 | 143 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
2Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.10 0.21 down from 2020 | 163 | 76% | — | ||
3Constructive Mathematical AnalysisOASüleyman Demirel University · Türkiye | 1.78Q1 | 1.79 1.04 down from 2020 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
4Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.47Q1 | 2.27 0.12 down from 2020 | 47 | 56% | $3,290 | ||
5Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A MatemáticasSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 2.41 0.01 down from 2020 | 472 | 37% | $3,390 | ||
6Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 3.38 1.49 up from 2020 | 152 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
7Demonstratio MathematicaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.24Q1 | 2.41 0.38 up from 2020 | 102 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
8Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.29no change | 365 | 83% | $3,090 | ||
9Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.17Q1 | 4.55 1.21 up from 2020 | 1,690 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
10Journal of Functional AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.13Q1 | 1.22 0.13 down from 2020 | 731 | 99% | $3,250 | ||
11Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 1.49 0.09 down from 2020 | 566 | 50% | $3,190 | ||
12Analysis and ApplicationsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.11Q1 | 1.61 0.14 up from 2020 | 113 | 24% | — | ||
13Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.11Q1 | 1.70 0.22 down from 2020 | 186 | 44% | $5,230 | ||
14Journal of Inequalities and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.10Q1 | 2.06 0.55 down from 2020 | 924 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
15Analysis and Mathematical PhysicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.09Q1 | 1.72 0.42 up from 2020 | 228 | 41% | $3,290 | ||
16Mathematische AnnalenSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.05Q1 | 1.01 0.08 down from 2020 | 470 | 72% | $3,190 | ||
17Collectanea mathematicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.04Q1 | 1.13 0.44 up from 2020 | 89 | 59% | $3,390 | ||
18Results in MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.04Q1 | 1.28 0.12 up from 2020 | 559 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
19Journal of Differential EquationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q1 | 1.95 0.07 up from 2020 | 1,572 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
20AIMS MathematicsOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 1.02Q1 | 2.88 0.51 up from 2020 | 805 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
21Constructive ApproximationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.02Q1 | 1.31 0.54 up from 2020 | 112 | 68% | $3,090 | ||
22Milan Journal of MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.00Q1 | 1.15 0.07 down from 2020 | 47 | 90% | $3,090 | ||
23Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 0.99Q1 | 1.37 0.26 down from 2020 | 308 | 99% | $2,900 | ||
24Nonlinear Analysis Modelling and ControlOAElsevier BV · Lithuania | 0.98Q1 | 2.12 0.92 down from 2020 | 170 | 100% | — | ||
25Kyungpook mathematical journalOAKyungpook National University · South Korea | 0.98Q1 | 1.43 0.65 up from 2020 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
26Nonlinear AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 1.41 0.14 down from 2020 | 812 | 58% | $2,690 | ||
27Applicable Analysis and Discrete MathematicsOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 0.96Q1 | 1.29 0.02 up from 2020 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Pseudo-Differential Operators and ApplicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.95Q1 | 1.29 0.25 up from 2020 | 129 | 23% | $3,190 | ||
29AxiomsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.93Q1 | 2.17 0.13 down from 2020 | 377 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
30Nonlinear Analysis Real World ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q1 | 2.19 0.16 down from 2020 | 492 | 27% | $3,780 | ||
31Mediterranean Journal of MathematicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.90Q1 | 1.13 0.12 down from 2020 | 590 | 38% | $3,190 | ||
32Computational Methods and Function TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.89Q1 | 0.97 0.25 up from 2020 | 119 | 54% | $3,190 | ||
33Mathematical Methods in the Applied SciencesWiley · Germany | 0.88Q1 | 3.15 0.81 up from 2020 | 2,233 | 22% | $5,000 | ||
34Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 0.87Q1 | 1.36no change | 184 | 55% | $700 | ||
35Boundary Value ProblemsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.87Q1 | 1.74 0.26 down from 2020 | 539 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
36Communications in Contemporary MathematicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.85Q1 | 0.92 0.01 up from 2020 | 272 | 65% | — | ||
37Advances in Calculus of VariationsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.85Q1 | 1.04 0.78 down from 2020 | 66 | 60% | $2,712 | ||
38Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und PhysikBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.85Q1 | 2.14 0.08 up from 2020 | 531 | 24% | $3,590 | ||
39Journal of Fourier Analysis and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · United States | 0.83Q1 | 0.90 0.36 down from 2020 | 197 | 69% | $2,990 | ||
40Advances in Applied Clifford AlgebrasBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.83Q1 | 1.18 0.04 up from 2020 | 284 | 34% | $3,190 | ||
41Science China MathematicsSpringer Nature · China | 0.82Q1 | 1.11 0.09 down from 2020 | 437 | 17% | $3,090 | ||
42SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 0.81Q1 | 1.61 0.11 up from 2020 | 566 | 52% | — | ||
43Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Malaysia | 0.80Q1 | 1.04 0.21 down from 2020 | 450 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
44Banach Journal of Mathematical AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.79Q1 | 0.91 0.05 down from 2020 | 178 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
45Journal of Mathematical Fluid MechanicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.78Q1 | 1.44 0.10 up from 2020 | 184 | 55% | $3,390 | ||
46Communications in Partial Differential EquationsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.24 0.13 up from 2020 | 193 | 64% | — | ||
47Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ApplicationsElsevier BV · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.11 0.21 down from 2020 | 2,697 | 97% | $3,190 | ||
48Advanced Nonlinear StudiesOADe Gruyter · United States | 0.76Q2 | 1.04 0.06 down from 2020 | 119 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
49Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A MathematicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.06 0.05 up from 2020 | 351 | 49% | $3,550 | ||
50Indiana University Mathematics JournalIndiana University · United States | 0.73Q2 | 0.71 0.05 down from 2020 | 221 | 60% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Applied Mathematics highlighted.
- Applied Mathematics180
- Statistics and Probability136
- Geometry and Topology132
- Mathematical Physics65
- Modeling and Simulation36
- Algebra and Number Theory26
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics15
- Numerical Analysis8
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 180
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,237 +29.0% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.57 -14.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 19
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.