Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Mathematics journal rankings 2021
600 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 600 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2020 to 0.56, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.80. The top three are Mathematical Programming Computation, The American Statistician, and Annals of Mathematics.
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 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 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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1Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.16Q1 | 4.31 3.79 down from 2020 | 64 | 81% | $3,390 | ||
2The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.75Q1 | 9.35 1.57 up from 2020 | 201 | 48% | — | ||
3Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.11Q1 | 3.27 0.14 up from 2020 | 101 | 59% | — | ||
4BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 6.24 0.13 down from 2020 | 707 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
5Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 2.08 0.01 up from 2020 | 219 | 86% | $3,090 | ||
6Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.12 0.19 down from 2020 | 71 | 47% | — | ||
7The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.49Q1 | 4.35 1.22 up from 2020 | 186 | 94% | $3,900 | ||
8Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.43Q1 | 4.03 1.22 down from 2020 | 143 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
9Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.40Q1 | 5.80 1.92 up from 2020 | 197 | 39% | — | ||
10Acta MathematicaOAMittag-Leffler Institute · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 1.25 2.46 down from 2020 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
11Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 5.65 0.98 down from 2020 | 65 | 12% | $2,490 | ||
12Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.28Q1 | 2.05 0.18 down from 2020 | 201 | 61% | — | ||
13Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 4.88 1.39 up from 2020 | 118 | 54% | $3,456 | ||
14Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.82 0.07 up from 2020 | 210 | 63% | — | ||
15Infectious Disease ModellingOAKeAi · China | 1.91Q1 | 17.51 14.93 up from 2020 | 137 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
16Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.10 0.21 down from 2020 | 163 | 76% | — | ||
17Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 3.27 0.85 up from 2020 | 599 | 48% | $4,570 | ||
18Journal of TopologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.51 0.06 down from 2020 | 123 | 62% | $3,930 | ||
19Constructive Mathematical AnalysisOASüleyman Demirel University · Türkiye | 1.78Q1 | 1.79 1.04 down from 2020 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
20Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018)Publisher not listed | 1.78Q1 | 0.79 0.14 up from 2020 | 214 | — | — | ||
21Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 1.90 0.25 up from 2020 | 198 | 84% | — | ||
22Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 1.59Q1 | 1.43 0.25 up from 2020 | 112 | 57% | — | ||
23Proceedings of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.65 0.54 up from 2020 | 239 | 48% | $4,700 | ||
24Evolutionary BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.77 0.20 up from 2020 | 78 | 47% | $2,290 | ||
25The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.26 0.40 up from 2020 | 403 | 83% | — | ||
26American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.48Q1 | 1.47 0.16 up from 2020 | 141 | 63% | — | ||
27Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.47Q1 | 2.27 0.12 down from 2020 | 47 | 56% | $3,290 | ||
28Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublisher not listed | 1.47Q1 | 3.19 0.07 up from 2020 | 547 | 62% | — | ||
29Cambridge Journal of MathematicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.46Q1 | 1.27 0.27 up from 2020 | 31 | 33% | — | ||
30Journal of Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.45Q1 | 2.01 0.13 up from 2020 | 346 | 32% | $3,090 | ||
31Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.31 0.24 down from 2020 | 113 | 88% | — | ||
32Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 1.42Q1 | 2.68 0.27 up from 2020 | 107 | 46% | $3,460 | ||
33Journal of Causal InferenceOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.42Q1 | 2.63 0.01 up from 2020 | 41 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
34Revista 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 | ||
35Applied and Computational Harmonic AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 3.38 1.49 up from 2020 | 152 | 100% | $3,150 | ||
36Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 3.30 0.55 down from 2020 | 124 | 89% | $4,090 | ||
37American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.36Q1 | 4.13 0.15 up from 2020 | 725 | 76% | $4,856 | ||
38Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.36Q1 | 1.33 0.71 down from 2020 | 122 | 75% | $2,390 | ||
39SymmetryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.33Q1 | 3.66 0.44 up from 2020 | 4,461 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
40Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q1 | 2.12 0.13 up from 2020 | 815 | 91% | $2,990 | ||
41Algebraic geometryOAFoundation Compositio Mathematica | 1.28Q1 | 1.16 0.32 up from 2020 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
42Fixed Point Theory and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.27Q1 | 1.59 0.31 down from 2020 | 56 | — | $1,214 | ||
43Spatial and Spatio-temporal EpidemiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 4.72 2.96 up from 2020 | 111 | 65% | $3,380 | ||
44Journal of Numerical CognitionOAPsychOpen · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 2.35 0.74 up from 2020 | 75 | 100% | — | ||
45EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 6.19 0.59 up from 2020 | 134 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
46Demonstratio MathematicaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.24Q1 | 2.41 0.38 up from 2020 | 102 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
47Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q1 | 3.23 1.21 up from 2020 | 172 | 23% | $3,190 | ||
48Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.29no change | 365 | 83% | $3,090 | ||
49Communications in Number Theory and PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.68 0.51 up from 2020 | 59 | 76% | — | ||
50Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 1.22Q1 | 1.34 0.03 up from 2020 | 270 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- 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.
116 additional 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
- 600
- Window papers (baseline)
- 193,556 +18.9% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.5578 -12.4% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
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 | 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.