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Journal rankings · indicator year 2022

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Field ranking · 2022

Mathematics journal rankings 2022

612 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences

Mathematics has 612 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.54, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 0.78. The top three are Annals of Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and The American Statistician.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 score is computed on.

612
9% of Physical Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.54-0.02 vs 2021
This fieldAll 0.78World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

31%
All fields: 37%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,190
Median positive listed APC: $3,190 among 298 journals. 314 have no known price. All fields: $3,290.

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Mathematics ranking, 2022

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.

OJR

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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022.

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1Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States
3.52Q13.46 0.19 up from 202110731%—
2Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States
3.25Q13.50 1.38 up from 20217748%—
3The American StatisticianTaylor & Francis · United States
3.05Q12.09 7.26 down from 202119555%—
2.67Q14.42 0.06 up from 202118385%$3,900
5Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.43Q16.86 2.55 up from 20215667%$3,390
6Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States
2.39Q12.08 0.03 up from 202120353%—
7Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.39Q12.00 0.08 down from 202121869%$3,090
8Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.37Q14.83 1.56 up from 202159452%$4,570
2.35Q110.25 9.05 up from 202159100%—
2.29Q15.36 0.43 down from 202119845%—
11Nonlinear EngineeringOADe Gruyter · Germany
2.25Q110.50 7.26 up from 2021108100%$1,187
12Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.18Q14.83 0.82 down from 20217139%$2,490
13Forum of Mathematics PiOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
2.15Q12.39 0.65 up from 202135100%$2,650
14Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany
2.15Q13.22 0.81 down from 2021169100%$1,469
2.14Q1—no 2021 value213——
2.13Q14.21 0.67 down from 202114173%$3,456
17Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom
2.07Q11.99 0.09 up from 202118574%—
18Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States
1.84Q12.03 0.08 down from 202115673%—
19Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
1.78Q11.85 0.43 down from 20215861%$3,290
1.70Q110.27 7.24 down from 2021195100%$1,100
1.69Q11.46 0.19 down from 202115853%$4,700
22Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France
1.67Q11.58 0.14 up from 202110649%—
1.64Q13.18 0.50 up from 202110122%$3,460
24Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsTaylor & Francis · United States
1.63Q11.77 1.05 down from 202127059%—
25Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States
1.60Q11.52 0.06 up from 202112146%—
26Fractal and FractionalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
1.58Q16.14 2.17 up from 2021412100%$3,258
1.56Q12.45 0.04 up from 202156744%$3,390
28Cambridge Journal of MathematicsInternational Press of Boston · United States
1.53Q11.52 0.25 up from 20213646%—
29Peking Mathematical JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · China
1.51Q11.50 0.08 down from 20213113%$3,090
1.50Q12.40 0.70 up from 202118942%$5,230
31Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland
1.47Q11.46 0.13 up from 202111263%$2,390
32Mathematics and Computers in SimulationElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.46Q14.75 1.02 up from 202192816%$2,170
33Journal of Statistics EducationOAAmerican Statistical Association · United Kingdom
1.45Q13.56 1.68 up from 202155—$1,134
34Journal of Statistics and Data Science EducationOATaylor & Francis · United States
1.44Q13.15 0.19 up from 202147100%—
35The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States
1.44Q13.12 0.15 down from 202139965%—
1.43Q15.28 2.98 up from 2021148100%$1,470
37American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States
1.40Q14.39 0.27 up from 202173582%$4,856
38BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.39Q15.03 1.21 down from 2021816100%$3,090
39PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.38Q13.73 1.02 up from 202115064%$3,550
40Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.35Q13.90 0.67 up from 202116737%$3,190
41Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt
1.35Q14.29 0.26 down from 20211,729—$1,790
42Algebraic geometryOAFoundation Compositio Mathematica
1.35Q11.28 0.12 up from 202186100%—
43Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States
1.34Q10.82 0.04 down from 20216536%—
44FractalsWorld Scientific · Singapore
1.34Q15.02 0.19 up from 202176845%—
45Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society
1.33Q11.39 0.05 up from 2021321100%—
46Evolutionary BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.32Q12.38 1.39 down from 20218750%$2,290
47Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States
1.30Q11.63 0.32 up from 202111461%—
48Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States
1.30Q13.48 1.33 up from 202115388%—
49American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States
1.29Q11.10 0.37 down from 202114670%—
50Journal of Numerical CognitionOAPsychOpen · Germany
1.29Q12.27 0.08 down from 202166100%—

Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

105 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
612
Window papers (baseline)
212,384 +26.1% from indicator year 2019
Median OJR
0.54 -15.6% from indicator year 2019
Rising journals (2025)
43Comparison-group list (43)

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals316326342356364375383393401424450467487506529555575584588593602600612617614610
Window papers (baseline)70,18274,01877,97481,67885,83889,09393,52997,540104,467112,174118,651123,776130,449135,652143,693149,268155,762159,703162,848168,439176,105193,556212,384223,655220,761214,225
Median OJR0.7560.750.8010.870.840.850.880.9160.8890.9180.8920.860.830.780.7990.7570.740.690.6360.6370.620.55780.540.510.550.5581
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 4.5%375 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 1.736 per 1,000427 journals
Output growthMedian: -2.1%575 journals
Open access shareMedian: 57.5%610 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,190299 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 29.7%566 journals
Review shareMedian: 0.0%610 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.56610 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 57.3%610 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 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.