Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Modeling and Simulation journal rankings 2021
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Modeling and Simulation has 36 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.18 on 2020 to 0.62, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.88. The top three are Infectious Disease Modelling, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, and Epidemics.
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)
36 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Infectious Disease ModellingOAKeAi · China | 1.91Q1 | 17.51 14.93 up from 2020 | 137 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
2Spatial and Spatio-temporal EpidemiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 4.72 2.96 up from 2020 | 111 | 65% | $3,380 | ||
3EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 6.19 0.59 up from 2020 | 134 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
4Mathematics and Computers in SimulationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q1 | 3.73 0.94 up from 2020 | 760 | 12% | $2,170 | ||
5Arab Journal of Basic and Applied SciencesOATaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.05Q1 | 4.13 1.22 up from 2020 | 110 | 100% | $944 | ||
6FractalsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.01Q1 | 4.83 1.29 up from 2020 | 567 | 29% | — | ||
7Mathematical and Computational ApplicationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Türkiye | 0.89Q1 | 2.02 1.01 down from 2020 | 264 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
8Mathematical BiosciencesElsevier BV · United States | 0.89Q1 | 3.99 1.67 up from 2020 | 319 | 58% | $2,660 | ||
9Journal of Applied Mathematics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.88Q1 | 2.37 0.61 up from 2020 | 302 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
10Mathematical Modelling and AnalysisOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 0.82Q2 | 1.80 0.23 up from 2020 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
11Mathematical sciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.81Q2 | 2.40 0.27 up from 2020 | 117 | 23% | $2,990 | ||
12Fractal and FractionalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.80Q2 | 3.97 0.50 up from 2020 | 140 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
13Nonlinear EngineeringOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.77Q2 | 3.24 0.12 down from 2020 | 126 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
14Fractional Calculus and Applied AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.77Q2 | 3.39 0.21 up from 2020 | 256 | 51% | $2,590 | ||
15Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.77Q2 | 3.04 0.28 down from 2020 | 215 | 61% | — | ||
16Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and StatisticsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 0.69Q2 | 2.16 0.52 up from 2020 | 188 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
17Journal of Theoretical BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 2.09 1.03 down from 2020 | 1,038 | 44% | $2,550 | ||
18Journal of Applied MathematicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.63Q2 | 1.89 0.14 up from 2020 | 140 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
19International Journal of Computer MathematicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.70 0.42 up from 2020 | 397 | 16% | — | ||
20Geospatial healthOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.58Q3 | 2.31 0.53 up from 2020 | 132 | 100% | $808 | ||
21International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical SimulationDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.56Q3 | 1.79 0.36 down from 2020 | 260 | 9% | — | ||
22Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions A ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.55Q3 | 1.76 0.54 up from 2020 | 559 | 8% | $2,990 | ||
23International Journal of Applied and Computational MathematicsSpringer Nature · India | 0.55Q3 | 1.92 0.14 up from 2020 | 459 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
24International Journal of Differential EquationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.72 0.51 up from 2020 | 81 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
25Bulletin of Mathematical BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.53Q3 | 2.19 0.36 up from 2020 | 433 | 66% | $3,090 | ||
26Letters in BiomathematicsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.98 1.71 down from 2020 | 84 | 100% | $400 | ||
27An International Journal of Optimization and Control Theories & Applications (IJOCTA)OABalıkesir University · Türkiye | 0.51Q3 | 1.22 0.25 up from 2020 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
28Computational and Mathematical MethodsOAWiley · United States | 0.47Q4 | 1.20 0.08 down from 2020 | 122 | 56% | $920 | ||
29Networks and Heterogeneous MediaOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 0.43Q4 | 1.15no change | 97 | 100% | — | ||
30Acta BiotheoreticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.40Q4 | 1.24 0.49 down from 2020 | 83 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
31Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 1.03 0.31 down from 2020 | 48 | 52% | $3,718 | ||
32BIOMATHOABulgaria | 0.24Q4 | 1.23 0.49 up from 2020 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
33International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical OptimisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.23Q4 | 0.41 0.35 down from 2020 | 99 | 13% | — | ||
34Contemporary MathematicsOASingapore | 0.22Q4 | 0.59 0.61 down from 2020 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
35Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)Publisher not listed | 0.21Q4 | 0.38 0.29 down from 2020 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.12Q4 | 0.31 0.04 down from 2020 | 133 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Modeling and Simulation 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.
14 additional Modeling and Simulation 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
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 21,211 +105.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.617 -0.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 36 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 43 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,437 | 1,658 | 1,978 | 2,382 | 2,842 | 3,343 | 3,694 | 4,226 | 4,858 | 5,675 | 6,350 | 6,824 | 7,395 | 7,836 | 8,738 | 9,279 | 9,573 | 9,767 | 10,329 | 11,146 | 12,205 | 21,211 | 31,504 | 38,113 | 34,755 | 28,708 | |
| Median OJR | 0.626 | 0.581 | 0.67 | 0.582 | 0.61 | 0.663 | 0.633 | 0.79413 | 0.92 | 1.06 | 1.03 | 1.05 | 0.96 | 0.91 | 0.81 | 0.72 | 0.71 | 0.59 | 0.622 | 0.76 | 0.79405 | 0.617 | 0.64 | 0.659 | 0.73 | 0.70 |
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.