Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Mathematics journal rankings 2024
614 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Mathematics has 614 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 0.80. The top three are American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Annals of Mathematics, and Journal of Econometrics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 Sciences614 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1American Journal of Applied Mathematics and StatisticsOAUnited States | 9.79Q1 | 0.38 14.66 down from 2023 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
2Annals of MathematicsPrinceton University · United States | 3.96Q1 | 4.38 0.60 down from 2023 | 98 | 18% | — | ||
3Journal of EconometricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 3.86 1.06 down from 2023 | 493 | 56% | $4,570 | ||
4Forum of Mathematics PiOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 2.89 0.07 up from 2023 | 69 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
5Inventiones mathematicaeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.03Q1 | 3.67 1.24 up from 2023 | 201 | 63% | $3,090 | ||
6Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 3.02Q1 | 2.80 0.30 up from 2023 | 65 | 25% | — | ||
7Duke Mathematical JournalDuke University Press · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.74 1.07 up from 2023 | 190 | 26% | — | ||
8Fuzzy Optimization and Decision MakingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 7.89 2.64 up from 2023 | 70 | 17% | $2,490 | ||
9Cambridge Journal of MathematicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 2.36Q1 | 2.61 0.90 up from 2023 | 37 | 38% | — | ||
10Geometry & TopologyMathematical Sciences Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 1.88 0.18 up from 2023 | 188 | 100% | — | ||
11Annals of Data ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.26Q1 | 3.99 0.50 down from 2023 | 181 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
12Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 5.05 1.56 up from 2023 | 55 | 57% | $3,390 | ||
13Geometric and Functional AnalysisBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 2.18Q1 | 2.17 0.37 down from 2023 | 97 | 59% | $2,390 | ||
14Bulletin of Mathematical SciencesOAWorld Scientific · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 3.12 2.02 up from 2023 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
15Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsWiley · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.15 0.76 up from 2023 | 75 | 53% | $3,460 | ||
16Econometrics JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 5.27 3.19 up from 2023 | 93 | 30% | $4,463 | ||
17Advances in Nonlinear AnalysisOADe Gruyter · Germany | 2.02Q1 | 3.65 0.63 up from 2023 | 181 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
18Communications on Pure and Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.69 0.08 down from 2023 | 180 | 59% | $5,230 | ||
19Annals of PDESpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.91Q1 | 2.43 0.87 up from 2023 | 76 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
20Current Epidemiology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.89Q1 | 4.76 0.76 up from 2023 | 76 | 53% | $4,090 | ||
21Communications in Analysis and MechanicsAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 1.78Q1 | 3.05no 2023 value | 40 | 100% | — | — | |
22American Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.77Q1 | 4.28 0.30 down from 2023 | 676 | 91% | $4,856 | ||
23Mathematics and Computers in SimulationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 4.39 0.68 down from 2023 | 1,165 | 31% | $2,170 | ||
24Analysis & PDEMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.67Q1 | 1.73 0.15 up from 2023 | 190 | 98% | — | ||
25Chaos Solitons & Fractals XElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 4.68 1.64 up from 2023 | 34 | 100% | $2,120 | ||
26Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.88 0.17 up from 2023 | 160 | 23% | — | ||
27Results in Control and OptimizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 4.61 0.74 up from 2023 | 270 | 100% | $1,470 | ||
28Communications in Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.51Q1 | 2.64 0.64 up from 2023 | 917 | 56% | $2,990 | ||
29Algebraic geometryOAFoundation Compositio Mathematica | 1.50Q1 | 1.47 0.07 up from 2023 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
30Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.50Q1 | 4.04 0.71 up from 2023 | 227 | 49% | — | ||
31Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale SupérieureSociété Mathématique de France · France | 1.48Q1 | 1.65 0.27 up from 2023 | 99 | 43% | — | ||
32The Annals of ProbabilityInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.58 0.87 up from 2023 | 198 | 29% | — | ||
33EpidemiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.44Q1 | 3.34 0.43 down from 2023 | 375 | 28% | — | ||
34PsychometrikaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.43Q1 | 2.84 0.68 down from 2023 | 176 | 52% | $3,550 | ||
35EMS Surveys in Mathematical SciencesOAEMS Press | 1.43Q1 | 1.32 0.43 down from 2023 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
36The Annals of StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical Statistics · United States | 1.43Q1 | 3.50 0.85 up from 2023 | 381 | 31% | — | ||
37Journal of Algebraic GeometryAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.41 0.64 up from 2023 | 57 | 22% | — | ||
38Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyOAEuropean Mathematical Society | 1.43Q1 | 2.03 0.56 up from 2023 | 364 | 100% | — | ||
39Advances in Difference EquationsOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.42Q1 | —no 2023 value | 513 | — | $1,790 | ||
40The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and StataSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.42Q1 | 1.84 0.55 down from 2023 | 178 | 43% | $3,900 | ||
41Journal de Mathématiques Pures et AppliquéesElsevier BV · France | 1.42Q1 | 2.31 0.83 up from 2023 | 262 | 77% | $2,900 | ||
42Archive for Rational Mechanics and AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 2.39 0.16 up from 2023 | 338 | 60% | $3,090 | ||
43Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential EquationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 1.95 0.41 up from 2023 | 733 | 38% | $3,190 | ||
44Advanced Nonlinear StudiesOADe Gruyter · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.73 0.31 down from 2023 | 119 | 100% | $1,469 | ||
45Partial Differential Equations in Applied MathematicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q1 | 4.53 0.13 down from 2023 | 377 | 100% | $1,470 | ||
46Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non LinéaireOAElsevier BV · France | 1.36Q1 | 2.07 0.61 up from 2023 | 118 | 100% | $700 | ||
47Advances in MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.34Q1 | 1.48 0.31 up from 2023 | 1,301 | 66% | $3,790 | ||
48Applied Mathematics in Science and EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.80 0.50 up from 2023 | 110 | 100% | — | ||
49Fractal and FractionalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.33Q1 | 3.57 0.25 down from 2023 | 1,932 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
50American Journal of MathematicsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.33Q1 | 1.43no change | 134 | 23% | — |
Subfields of Mathematics, compared.
- Applied Mathematics176
- Geometry and Topology137
- Statistics and Probability135
- Mathematical Physics66
- Modeling and Simulation45
- Algebra and Number Theory26
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics18
- Numerical Analysis9
- Theoretical Computer Science2
- Computational Mathematics0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
82 additional Mathematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 614
- Window papers (baseline)
- 220,761 +14.1% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.55 -0.5% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 43Comparison-group list (43)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.