Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Geometry and Topology journal rankings 2021
132 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Geometry and Topology has 132 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 0.82. The top three are Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones mathematicae, and Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
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)
132 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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1Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.11Q1 | 3.27 0.14 up from 2020 | 101 | 59% | — | ||
2Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 2.08 0.01 up from 2020 | 219 | 86% | $3,090 | ||
3Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.12 0.19 down from 2020 | 71 | 47% | — | ||
4Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.28Q1 | 2.05 0.18 down from 2020 | 201 | 61% | — | ||
5Journal of TopologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.51 0.06 down from 2020 | 123 | 62% | $3,930 | ||
6Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018)Publisher not listed | 1.78Q1 | 0.79 0.14 up from 2020 | 214 | — | — | ||
7Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 1.90 0.25 up from 2020 | 198 | 84% | — | ||
8Proceedings of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.65 0.54 up from 2020 | 239 | 48% | $4,700 | ||
9Evolutionary BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.77 0.20 up from 2020 | 78 | 47% | $2,290 | ||
10Journal of Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.45Q1 | 2.01 0.13 up from 2020 | 346 | 32% | $3,090 | ||
11Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.31 0.24 down from 2020 | 113 | 88% | — | ||
12Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.36Q1 | 1.33 0.71 down from 2020 | 122 | 75% | $2,390 | ||
13SymmetryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.33Q1 | 3.66 0.44 up from 2020 | 4,461 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
14Algebraic geometryOAFoundation Compositio Mathematica | 1.28Q1 | 1.16 0.32 up from 2020 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
15Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.27Q1 | 1.59 0.31 down from 2020 | 56 | — | $1,214 | ||
16Communications in Number Theory and PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.68 0.51 up from 2020 | 59 | 76% | — | ||
17Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 1.22Q1 | 1.34 0.03 up from 2020 | 270 | 100% | — | ||
18Algebra & Number TheoryMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.20Q1 | 0.99 0.17 up from 2020 | 229 | 72% | — | ||
19Advances in MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.19Q1 | 1.16 0.12 down from 2020 | 1,168 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
20Forum of Mathematics SigmaOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.29 0.29 up from 2020 | 134 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
21Compositio MathematicaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.08 0.04 up from 2020 | 285 | 80% | $3,450 | ||
22Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal)De Gruyter · Germany | 1.05Q1 | 1.05 0.35 up from 2020 | 127 | 65% | $2,712 | ||
23Fixed Point TheoryOABabeș-Bolyai University · Romania | 1.05Q1 | 1.31 0.47 down from 2020 | 165 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 0.98Q1 | 0.87 0.09 up from 2020 | 64 | 44% | — | ||
25Letters in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.96Q1 | 1.46 0.18 up from 2020 | 280 | 83% | $2,990 | ||
26Selecta MathematicaBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.90Q1 | 0.71 0.07 down from 2020 | 241 | 76% | $3,190 | ||
27Annales de l’institut FourierOAAssociation of the Annals of the Fourier Institute · France | 0.90Q1 | 0.92 0.05 up from 2020 | 195 | 100% | — | ||
28Research in the Mathematical SciencesSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.89Q1 | 1.21no change | 114 | 60% | $4,090 | ||
29Bulletin of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q1 | 0.88 0.06 down from 2020 | 292 | 69% | $3,930 | ||
30Transactions of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 0.86Q1 | 0.87no change | 882 | 54% | — | ||
31Journal of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q1 | 0.80 0.22 down from 2020 | 298 | 76% | $3,930 | ||
32Journal de l’École polytechnique — MathématiquesOACellule MathDoc/CEDRAM · France | 0.83Q1 | 1.00 0.05 up from 2020 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
33Kyoto journal of mathematicsDuke University Press · United States | 0.82Q1 | 0.62 0.09 down from 2020 | 98 | 79% | — | ||
34Journal of Geometry and PhysicsElsevier BV · Italy | 0.79Q2 | 1.35no change | 642 | 98% | $3,550 | ||
35Journal of Combinatorial AlgebraOAEMS Press | 0.79Q2 | 0.46 0.42 down from 2020 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
36Algebraic & Geometric TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.68 0.23 down from 2020 | 306 | 87% | — | ||
37Publicacions MatemàtiquesAutonomous University of Barcelona · Spain | 0.78Q2 | 0.55 0.32 down from 2020 | 73 | 93% | — | ||
37Russian Mathematical SurveysIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.32 0.15 up from 2020 | 158 | 20% | — | ||
39Documenta MathematicaOAGermany | 0.77Q2 | 0.72 0.03 up from 2020 | 196 | 100% | — | ||
40Mathematische ZeitschriftSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.74Q2 | 0.65 0.03 up from 2020 | 611 | 76% | $3,290 | ||
41Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum HungaricaeSpringer Nature · Hungary | 0.74Q2 | 0.98 0.49 up from 2020 | 312 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
42Canadian Journal of MathematicsCambridge University Press · United States | 0.74Q2 | 0.65 0.01 up from 2020 | 189 | 73% | $3,550 | ||
43Sbornik MathematicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.10 0.20 up from 2020 | 209 | 31% | — | ||
44Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of JussieuCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.74 0.18 up from 2020 | 179 | 84% | $3,550 | ||
45Journal of MathematicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 1.78 0.48 up from 2020 | 286 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
46Mathematical Research LettersInternational Press of Boston · United States | 0.69Q2 | 0.58 0.02 up from 2020 | 236 | 49% | — | ||
47Transformation GroupsBirkhäuser · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.51 0.10 down from 2020 | 153 | 94% | $2,990 | ||
48Pacific Journal of MathematicsMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.63 0.11 down from 2020 | 371 | 70% | — | ||
49Épijournal de Géométrie AlgébriqueOAÉpisciences.org · France | 0.66Q2 | 0.49 0.01 down from 2020 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
50The Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and ApplicationsOAInternational Scientific Research Publications · Iran | 0.65Q2 | 1.76 0.74 up from 2020 | 229 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Geometry and Topology 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.
24 additional Geometry and Topology 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
- 132
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,580 +7.3% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.55 -15.9% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 |
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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.