Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Mathematics journal rankings 2023
617 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 617 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.77. The top three are American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Annals of Mathematics, and Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
Up to Physical Sciences617 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1American Journal of Applied Mathematics and StatisticsOAUnited States | 8.57Q1 | 15.04 4.79 up from 2022 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
2Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 4.67Q1 | 4.97 1.51 up from 2022 | 100 | 36% | — | ||
3Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 3.51Q1 | 2.50 1.00 down from 2022 | 69 | 35% | — | ||
4Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.13Q1 | 3.49 3.38 down from 2022 | 57 | 85% | $3,390 | ||
5Research Methods in Medicine & Health SciencesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 1.94 5.01 down from 2022 | 46 | 59% | $3,900 | ||
6Forum of Mathematics PiOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 2.82 0.43 up from 2022 | 55 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
7The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.88Q1 | 2.39 2.03 down from 2022 | 177 | 89% | $3,900 | ||
8Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 4.91 0.08 up from 2022 | 566 | 50% | $4,570 | ||
9Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.35Q1 | 2.43 0.43 up from 2022 | 215 | 72% | $3,090 | ||
10Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.30Q1 | 1.67 0.41 down from 2022 | 202 | 45% | — | ||
11Cambridge Journal of MathematicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 2.19Q1 | 1.70 0.19 up from 2022 | 40 | 30% | — | ||
12Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.32 2.04 down from 2022 | 214 | 46% | — | ||
13Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.12Q1 | 2.54 1.08 up from 2022 | 99 | 56% | $2,390 | ||
14Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 5.25 0.42 up from 2022 | 87 | 63% | $2,490 | ||
15Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 3.03 0.19 down from 2022 | 179 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
16Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.49 1.72 down from 2022 | 183 | 82% | $3,456 | ||
17Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 4.49 0.59 up from 2022 | 207 | 20% | $3,190 | ||
18Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 1.80Q1 | 1.37 0.20 down from 2022 | 109 | 48% | — | ||
19Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 1.70 0.30 down from 2022 | 177 | 97% | — | ||
20Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.73Q1 | 1.58 0.44 down from 2022 | 193 | 100% | — | ||
21Mathematics and Computers in SimulationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 5.07 0.32 up from 2022 | 1,077 | 23% | $2,170 | ||
22American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.57 0.18 up from 2022 | 697 | 92% | $4,856 | ||
23Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.60Q1 | 4.00 0.26 down from 2022 | 90 | 63% | $4,090 | ||
24Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.77 0.37 up from 2022 | 166 | 66% | $5,230 | ||
25Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.71 0.19 up from 2022 | 116 | 50% | — | ||
26Proceedings of the London Mathematical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.53 0.07 up from 2022 | 149 | 75% | $4,700 | ||
27Advances in Continuous and Discrete ModelsSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 2.74no 2022 value | 72 | 100% | $1,890 | — | |
28PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.52 0.21 down from 2022 | 178 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
29Infectious Disease ModellingOAKeAi · China | 1.47Q1 | 3.77 6.50 down from 2022 | 246 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
30Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 1.46Q1 | 4.39 1.21 up from 2022 | 94 | 68% | $3,460 | ||
31Journal of Differential GeometryLehigh University · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.29 0.33 down from 2022 | 115 | 32% | — | ||
32Journal of Statistics and Data Science EducationOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.36 0.78 down from 2022 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
33The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.36Q1 | 2.65 0.46 down from 2022 | 439 | 51% | — | ||
34Statistical ScienceInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.70 0.78 down from 2022 | 149 | 67% | — | ||
35Fractal and FractionalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.33Q1 | 3.82 2.32 down from 2022 | 1,126 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
36Partial Differential Equations in Applied MathematicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 4.66 0.62 down from 2022 | 275 | 100% | $1,470 | ||
37American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.43 0.33 up from 2022 | 146 | 61% | — | ||
38Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.30Q1 | 2.01 0.08 up from 2022 | 924 | 61% | $2,990 | ||
39Algebraic geometryOAFoundation Compositio Mathematica | 1.29Q1 | 1.40 0.12 up from 2022 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 1.26Q1 | 1.46 0.07 up from 2022 | 358 | 100% | — | ||
41Advances in MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.25Q1 | 1.17 0.05 down from 2022 | 1,323 | 58% | $3,790 | ||
42Results in Control and OptimizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 3.87 1.33 up from 2022 | 110 | 100% | $1,470 | ||
43Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.23Q1 | 3.24 1.05 down from 2022 | 1,198 | — | $1,790 | ||
44Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.23Q1 | 2.22 0.33 down from 2022 | 334 | 64% | $3,090 | ||
45Journal of Numerical CognitionOAPsychOpen · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.41 0.14 up from 2022 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
46BMC Medical Research MethodologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 4.81 0.22 down from 2022 | 907 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
47Bayesian AnalysisOAInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.00 2.15 down from 2022 | 147 | 100% | — | ||
48EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.19Q1 | 3.77 0.36 up from 2022 | 397 | 32% | — | ||
49Advanced Nonlinear StudiesOADe Gruyter · United States | 1.19Q1 | 2.04 0.58 up from 2022 | 115 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
50Arab Journal of Basic and Applied SciencesOATaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.18Q1 | 2.97 1.00 down from 2022 | 114 | 100% | $944 |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics181
- Geometry and Topology140
- Statistics and Probability133
- Mathematical Physics67
- Modeling and Simulation44
- Algebra and Number Theory25
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics17
- Numerical Analysis8
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
88 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 617
- Window papers (baseline)
- 223,655 +27.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.51 -16.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.