Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Modeling and Simulation journal rankings 2023
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Mathematics
Modeling and Simulation has 44 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.01. The top three are Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models, and Infectious Disease Modelling.
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 of Mathematics (10)
44 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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1Mathematics and Computers in SimulationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 5.07 0.32 up from 2022 | 1,077 | 23% | $2,170 | ||
2Advances in Continuous and Discrete ModelsSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 2.74no 2022 value | 72 | 100% | $1,890 | — | |
3Infectious Disease ModellingOAKeAi · China | 1.47Q1 | 3.77 6.50 down from 2022 | 246 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
4Fractal and FractionalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.33Q1 | 3.82 2.32 down from 2022 | 1,126 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
5Partial Differential Equations in Applied MathematicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 4.66 0.62 down from 2022 | 275 | 100% | $1,470 | ||
6Results in Control and OptimizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 3.87 1.33 up from 2022 | 110 | 100% | $1,470 | ||
7Arab Journal of Basic and Applied SciencesOATaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.18Q1 | 2.97 1.00 down from 2022 | 114 | 100% | $944 | ||
8Nonlinear EngineeringOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 3.81 6.69 down from 2022 | 151 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
9EpidemicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q1 | 3.70 1.61 down from 2022 | 204 | 100% | $2,730 | ||
10Spatial and Spatio-temporal EpidemiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q1 | 2.46 1.60 down from 2022 | 143 | 63% | $3,380 | ||
11Applied Mathematics in Science and EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.01Q1 | 2.30 2.30 up from 2022 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
12Journal of Applied Mathematics and ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 2.45 0.13 up from 2022 | 516 | 10% | $3,390 | ||
13FractalsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.98Q2 | 3.42 1.60 down from 2022 | 955 | 59% | — | ||
14Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied SciencesWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.96Q2 | 3.17 0.50 up from 2022 | 206 | 34% | — | ||
15Chaos Solitons & Fractals XElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 3.04 0.24 up from 2022 | 35 | 100% | $2,120 | ||
16Fractional Calculus and Applied AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.85Q2 | 2.50 0.61 down from 2022 | 291 | 33% | $2,590 | ||
17Mathematical BiosciencesElsevier BV · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.17 2.23 down from 2022 | 199 | 53% | $2,660 | ||
18Acta BiotheoreticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.76Q2 | 2.06 0.20 up from 2022 | 80 | 43% | $3,290 | ||
19Mathematical Modelling and AnalysisOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 0.72Q2 | 1.72 0.17 down from 2022 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
20An International Journal of Optimization and Control Theories & Applications (IJOCTA)OABalıkesir University · Türkiye | 0.70Q2 | 2.74 0.96 up from 2022 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
21Mathematical sciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.70Q2 | 1.87 0.16 down from 2022 | 181 | 6% | $2,990 | ||
22International Journal of Applied and Computational MathematicsSpringer Nature · India | 0.66Q2 | 2.06 0.14 down from 2022 | 718 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
23Journal of Theoretical BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 2.09 0.09 up from 2022 | 721 | 56% | $2,550 | ||
24Bulletin of Mathematical BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.65Q3 | 2.03 0.02 down from 2022 | 414 | 66% | $3,090 | ||
25Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and StatisticsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 0.64Q3 | 1.81 0.12 up from 2022 | 269 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
26Journal of Applied MathematicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.50 0.45 down from 2022 | 186 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
27International Journal of Computer MathematicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 1.67 0.13 down from 2022 | 330 | 11% | — | ||
28Mathematical and Computational ApplicationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Türkiye | 0.60Q3 | 2.09 0.33 up from 2022 | 274 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
29Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions A ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.58Q3 | 1.66 0.18 down from 2022 | 563 | — | $2,990 | ||
30Geospatial healthOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.56Q3 | 1.45 0.76 down from 2022 | 154 | 100% | $808 | ||
31International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical SimulationDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.52Q3 | 1.54 0.15 up from 2022 | 374 | 73% | — | ||
32International Journal of Differential EquationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 1.29 0.24 down from 2022 | 81 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
33Networks and Heterogeneous MediaOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.42 0.37 up from 2022 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
34Open Journal of Modelling and SimulationOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.48Q4 | 1.54 0.77 down from 2022 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
35Computational and Mathematical MethodsOAWiley · United States | 0.47Q4 | 1.26 0.17 up from 2022 | 153 | 100% | $920 | ||
36Computational and Mathematical BiophysicsOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.43Q4 | 1.53 0.19 down from 2022 | 46 | 100% | $848 | ||
37Mathematical Modelling and ControlAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 0.39Q4 | 1.23 0.24 down from 2022 | 44 | 97% | — | ||
38BIOMATHOABulgaria | 0.32Q4 | 1.00 0.09 up from 2022 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
39Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 1.02no change | 53 | 63% | $3,718 | ||
40Contemporary MathematicsOASingapore | 0.25Q4 | 0.48 0.09 up from 2022 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Statistical and Econometric MethodsPublisher not listed | 0.15Q4 | 0.22 0.18 down from 2022 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
42Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)Publisher not listed | 0.13Q4 | 0.47no change | 68 | — | — | ||
| 0.13Q4 | 0.24 0.26 down from 2022 | 160 | 5% | — | |||
44International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical OptimisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.11Q4 | 0.26 0.04 up from 2022 | 136 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, with Modeling and Simulation highlighted.
- 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.
7 additional Modeling and Simulation 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
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,113 +212.3% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.659 -17.0% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 |
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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.